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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, workers with four-years of college traditionally make about $1 million more during their working life than their counterparts with high school diplomas–but don’t let that figure fool you. True, many top-paying professional jobs require four years of college (or more)–but you needn’t endure four years of study halls and pub-crawls to land a good job. Here are four excellent careers that can combine paid on-the-job training with classroom work, without requiring a four-year degree.

Radiological Technician
Sure, without a four-year degree, med school isn’t an option–but what if you still want to work in healthcare? Healthcare is one of America’s fastest-growing career sectors, expected to add millions of new jobs in the years ahead. If you want a healthcare career without a four-year degree, radiological technician might be an ideal career for you.

Radiologists and radiologic technicians work with sophisticated imaging machines to help diagnose patient illness.  The job requires you to understand the in and outs of computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET). While the technology is complex, you needn’t spend four years at university to land a job. In fact, two-year associate’s degree programs are typically the most common credential. If you already have healthcare experience, enrolling in a one-year certificate program may be all the education you need to land an entry-level position. You can find training through hospitals or colleges. You may learn human anatomy and physiology, radiation physics, medical terminology, and patient care and positioning.

The job offers the opportunity to work with patients, and, like many other healthcare careers, is highly portable. You can also earn a competitive salary. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), median annual earnings for radiologists and radiologic technicians stood at $50,260 in May 2007. The highest-paid workers made as much as $71,600.

Electrician
Looking for a truly high-powered career? Consider working as an electrician. Electricians keep the juice flowing in private homes as well as commercial buildings and large industrial complexes. Although learning the requisite skills–everything from electrical theory, blueprint reading, and mathematics to electrical code requirements, safety, and first aid–takes time and effort, a four-year degree is usually not necessary. Most electricians learn their trade through apprenticeship programs which combine paid on-the-job training with classroom instruction.

As a skilled trade, electrician jobs offer the opportunity to make a comfortable living. According to the BLS, in May 2007, median annual earnings for electricians stood at $44,780, while those in the top 90th percentile earned up to $76,000. Excellent job prospects for workers trained in a wide range of skills (including voice, video, and data wiring), make electrician an attractive choice. The BLS predicts the number of electrician jobs should jump by seven percent, or 52,000 between 2006 and 2016.

Plumber
Although you might think of unclogging drains as unglamorous work, there’s far more to a plumber’s job than you might think. Plumbers install, maintain, and repair entire pipe systems–including the piping that allows nuclear power stations to churn out megawatts of electricity, and the valves that oil refineries use to process crude oil into gasoline.

If you’re attracted to skilled trades, plumbers are expected to see job growth over the next several years. Because the number of open positions should exceed the number of qualified applicants, your job prospects should be excellent. Finally, let’s not forget your wages. Median annual earnings for pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters stood at $44,090 in May 2007. The highest-paid percentile of workers made as $75,070.

Although typically you may not need a bachelor’s degree for a career as a plumber, the training can take up to five years. However, the extended apprenticeship program offered by unions or non-union contractor agencies allows you to earn money while training on the job. At the same time, you may take as much as 144 hours of classroom study per year, learning drafting, blueprint reading, physics, chemistry, safety, and building codes.

Auto Mechanic
It’s every motorhead’s dream job. If you’ve ever dreamed of restoring classic muscle or working on economy imports, a career as a mechanic can help you marry your passion to a livable wage. Median annual earnings for automotive mechanics stood at $34,170, according to the BLS, while the highest-paid mechanics earn as much as $57,650.

Although advancing automotive technology has complicated training required for a job as a skilled automotive mechanic, a four-year degree is usually not necessary. You can earn an associate’s degree in two years through a combination of hands-on practice and classroom study. If you decide to take an accelerated course, you can earn a certificate in six months to a year. If you decide to go for an associate’s degree, most likely you’ll spend between six and eight weeks alternating between full-time work for the automotive service department of a participating business (generally under the supervision of experienced mechanics), and attending classes. 
Of course, these are just four of a thousand other rewarding careers that dispense with the four-year degree. Whether it’s checking out your local community college, browsing certificate programs online, or speaking with your local union representative, there’s no limit to the places you can go. No degree? No problem.

Kelli Smith
http://www.articlesbase.com/college-and-university-articles/no-degree-no-problem-four-careers-without-a-fouryear-degree-715109.html

Imagine utilising your skills while you surround yourself in fashion? I am going to suggest for you that a career in fashion is an excellent career for older women. I am passionate at focusing on skill set to get to where you want to get to in your career. Let’s look at fashion careers for older women.

Who said fashion is about youth? Certainly from reading glamour magazines and seeing how the general media portrays body image in fashion you would think so. But there are so many jobs that create a fashion business and I am going to let you know the one’s that are prefect careers for older women.

Presentation is everything and in fashion it’s the entire industries core value. There are a multitude of brands craving for the presentation and style of older women. In fashion retail and wholesale sales particularly I have had numerous requests for the presentation, reliability and commitment of an older woman. Successful Australian brands including Maggie T, Resort Report, Wombat, Dolina, Brown Sugar and many more rely on the presentation of older women to relate to their clients in the retail and wholesale environment. Better still some offer exceptional flexibility to attract older women to their careers including flexible hours and job share structure. Many of my clients have commented on the need to employ older women to relate to the brand and target customer and although it is not policy for them to discriminate should a younger person apply they have found huge success in attracting and employing older women to their brands especially in the retail environment.

Let’s investigate the behind the scenes careers for older women. Over the years and during my days in Fashion Recruitment I have placed many older women into permanent and job share roles in Customer Service, Accounts and as Administrators. The attraction of employing a skilled older woman who may be interested in permanent part time or job share is highly attractive within a fashion head office environment. One of the pluses that employers are constantly quoting to me is that older women are reliable and tend to stay in the role for a long period of time thus providing consistency and sound relationships with customers. By providing flexibility many employers have realised that the benefit to the business is immeasurable. Older women feel that they are being valued by the employer and with this the loyalty that they give has a direct impact on sales and service levels.

The question begs… Is there room for older women in design, product development and brand management roles within a fashion environment? In this instance an older women making a career change into fashion may find obstacles in securing a role in these categories. Experience counts and making a move into a career in fashion in these categories relies on experience. In this instance my suggestion to you is to focus on your foundation skill set and transfer these skills into fashion. For example if you have been an administrator within another industry you could simply make the transition into fashion and create your career within a new environment. Attempting to move from an unrelated skill set into design, product development or brand management as an older woman may result in a lack of opportunities, however, if you have been in a design, product development or brand role within a fashion environment you have a future.

Reposition yourself within a brand applicable to your age and fashion purchasing habits. In design, product development or brand management your success is reliant on your understanding of the target market and what better understanding will you have if you are the customer? That’s not to say that older women are not successfully designing youth brands, they are and always will. But in my opinion your understanding of the target market and adaptation to youth product as you get older can be challenging. If you strategically reposition yourself into a new target market and make use of your skill set you are guaranteed success.

In fashion careers for older women are also common within Senior Management and Operations. Youth is not a factor when it comes to leadership and strategic business management and experience counts. If you have created your career within a fashion environment in operations and management you need to move with the times and adapt to the behaviours, drivers and thinking of the youth you employ. If you can successfully do this which means not adopt stale ideals of how thing were you have a great future. Your career drivers as an older woman may be completely different but your success and especially within a fashion environment is your ability to wholeheartedly embrace change and the youth of today.

One more thing; successful careers for older women within the fashion industry are incalculably reliant on your ability to move with the times without trying to be what you are no longer; young at heart will do just fine.

Natasha Zurnamer
http://www.articlesbase.com/women’s-issues-articles/careers-for-older-women-in-fashion-87842.html

I love history, I have read books on the history of Mexico, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba, Italy and few others and now Im looking for careers were I could put this to use and learn even more. And what are the personal characteristics one must have for these careers? Also considering maybe a career in political science? And what would I do in jobs like that?

You could look into
advertising, Archivist,consultant, foreign services,intelligence agent, journalist,education,advocate and many more.Also, talk to the stident advisor at your school .They will be able to tell you where alumni are working
Good LUck

I am a student in my first year of college. I am undeclared as of right now, and searching for a possible major/career. All I really know that I want to do is help people, whether that is working at some kind of homeless shelter or orphanage or going to another country. However, I am not sure what kind of major I should choose for this type of passion or what kinds of careers are available for what I want to do. Any suggestions?

A doctor or nurse…

I’m looking at colleges and wondering what to major in. I’m very interested in science (specifically biology, genetics, chemistry, and astronomy, but science in general as well), and I’ve been studying Spanish and French. I’d like to pursue these topics in college, but I’m not sure what practicality they’ll have together in terms of future jobs. Are there any science careers that require or can benefit from a knowledge of multiple languages, and if so, which are they?

Pharmaceutical sales representative.
Biologist, especially if you work for government or non-profit.
Almost any doctor, our world is becoming multilingual.
Traveling Geologist, for instance, lets say you visit the middle east to dig up some dinosaur bones.
Chemist, if you work in the chemical engineering field you may have to take some trips to china, japan, russia, europe, etc.

I’m planning to go to college to do pre-pharmacy,but what if you dont get into pharmacy school? and what other careers are there that pays well as a pharmacist? I want to expand my options if I don’t decide to become one or something..I’m also wondering what is the average GPA in college from students wanting to go to pharmacy school.

Some, who don’t make it, go into medicine, physical therapy, occupational therapy, nursing, public health, optometry, and physician’s assistant.
The average successful applicant’s GPA is in the mid 3s, 3.4-3.6.

I would really like to travel all over the world some day so what are some good careers for this? Thanks.

You can do any upper level job and travel. It’s all in what your interests are and your education. Pretty much all Fortune 500 companies can use skilled managers and scientists in all facets of their work – and at all locations. Upward mobility is increased if you are able to do stints in other countries – and these usually range from one to three year assignments. Check out he international aspects of the top companies and keep your passport current :~)

i want to be able to do that kind of work with computers, but they don’t necessarily pay that well (40k a yr). Are there any other computer careers that involve repair work, ect. that pay at least 10k higher yearly? Thanks!
thanks anyway ppl i got some information from my dad who works in it department. he gave me some help on the issue.

Fraid not..

Deskside support is slowly being phased out (where the repair tech comes to your desk). PCs have gotten so "cheap" that it’s less expensive for a company to have a few spares on hand, swap out the hard drive and poof! the user is back in business.
Of course my perspective is corporate customers, I dont know what small businesses do.

The real opportunity is setting up wireless networks, installing anti-virus and anti-spamware software, developing secure VPNs for mobile employees, and integrating handheld devices (Blackberry and Windows Mobile phones) into the company.

The tech repair guys (unless you want to strike out on your own and target home and small business users) are low paid employees due to the commoditization of PCs.

Hope that helps you..

Good Luck and HNY

I’m sick of accounting-yawnsville. Have any accountants switched careers and what did you switch to?

You should have little trouble with that. I assume that you, like most accountants, have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in business. Such an education, combined with your accounting experience, should qualify you for any number of positions.

Also, if you are considering going back to school, you might want to consider law. Accounting and law are closely related, so it’s a fairly easy transition.

You may also want to consider starting your own business. You should certainly have the business end in hand. And you could save a good bit of money in incorporating and professional fees. Not to mention that you will probably have little trouble writing an airtight business and financial plan for the bank.

I know you can be a teacher, and work in a museum, but I want to be able to do more than that. Any careers out there that like to hire history majors and that pay well?
But I don’t want to be a teahcer can you get jobs like Human resource manager or Finnacial Planner or Paralegal, or Stock broker, or jobs in bussniess.

You can do a MLS and be a librarian.

And to the person who said the only thing you can do is be a teacher is so WRONG. Thats what I was told by my dad when I said I wanted to do a history degree, and he steered me into another area I hated. My dad turned out to be WRONG!!!!! I have lost so much of my life by not doing a history degree.

I am graduating with a psychology degree in May and I am having a career crisis. I would like to work with children but a child psychologist seems kind of depressing. I was wondering if anyone knew of great careers that deal with children. I am willing to go back to school because I would like to further my education. Any advice?

i don’t really know of anything besides child psychologist
although idk it may be less depressing to work at a school and do that
my school has a psychiatrist
seems like you’d run in to less depressing cases at private schools and stuff

help me?

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With more corporations seeking for expansion, this has also resulted to open doors for greater employment opportunities. It has also attracted several individuals to seek for greener pastures where they know there is a higher compensation that can sustain not just themselves but also their respective families. Yes, you have the desire but are you up to the challenge of having international business careers?

Here is a checklist for you to evaluate yourself if you are fit to pursue international business careers. This has been compiled by Stephen Taylor who holds a Master of Arts degree in International Management Studies- Global Leadership from the University of Texas.

Do you tend to be cynical?
Adaptation should be the most important factor when deciding to work in a foreign nation. Remember that they have their own customs and traditions which may appear unusual on your end. Since you are alone out of the many, you just have to really adjust until such time that it will just be common.
A lot of the executives who are now successful in their fields have a strong personality. When they are thrown into a whole new environment where he or she has only a morsel background of the area, the initial reaction is to take control of the situation. Establishing relationships is also very important so that the locals will learn to cooperate with the emigrant manager.

Are you task oriented?
It is a borne fact that your primary resolve in achieving international business careers is to give what is due to the pay that you are receiving. However, most of the communities outside your own country seek the support of everybody else and not just on a personal note. It is a must that the culture of that place be discovered by you. A great start would be to read articles so that when you are there, you have an idea.

Do you welcome change?
It may inject fear but it is healthy to simply expect the unexpected especially when you are miles away from home. There can be employees that can get into your nerves because you feel like they do not give the credit due to you or even managers that can be very annoying because they demand too much. Either way, the call is to value.
The ability to be open to anything, be it victory or failure, is unmistakably an advantage to others who are just close- fitted in their idealisms.

Are you willing to take risks?
Engaging in international business careers has been very dangerous at this time. There have been a lot of terrorists groups who threatens security and other impediments.
If you are determined to the plans that you have, the most wise approach is to undergo a process of discernment and not just do your own will. Regrets does not come before but after.

T J Madigan
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/what-choice-is-there-for-international-business-careers-113788.html

I’ve always been fascinated with the stock market. I follow it daily and have accounts to trade with. One is a fully managed account and the other I make the trades. I think something in the stock market might be the career for me. I’m 25 and have a degree in healthcare business. The only thing I question my ability at is making phone sales. What are some careers in the stock market?

stock broker….

I"m still in high school, but I’m considering my future career and some ideas for what I’d like to go to college for. French is one of them. I’m pretty good at it, and I do enjoy it.

What are some careers french could offer?

How about a translator? A chef?

People have been telling me that I won’t have very many job opportunities with a major in political science and a minor in communications. I know this is a good background to go into law school, but other than that, what types of careers will be available to me?

I would try to go to work for a Congressman or Rep and develop that job into just exactly what you want. That is IF U enjoy that business. Another is seeking out a job with a WELL KNOWN local media organization, T V – radio – etc. Work hard with your nose down and your butt up that will impress your bosses. A good way to impress employers is to start early and stay late doing other than what you were asked to do. God Bless

I am looking into possible majors and was wondering about a communications degree. I am interested in doing advertising but do not want to go to an art school which is the only place I have found offering an "advertising" major. I have read that communications can qualify you for an advertising type job. IS this correct? What other careers would I be suitable for with a communications degree and what type of minors, if any, should I look into?

Other than advertising consider human relations, journalism, and writing./

Accounting is the study of the way businesses keep track of their income as well as their assets over a specific period. There are several things on can easily learn from choosing one of the careers in accounting. One of the most important lessons in learning the ways businesses usually work. Most people are not aware of the fact that most successful businesspersons were accountants who later wanted to open a business of their own. The main reason is that accounting is actually a business language. A system accumulates and measures the following:

a) Business activities

b) Transformation of information into reports

c) Communication of output to the management of top level

If you think that these are not many options under the category of Careers in accounting, you are wrong. You would be amazed to know that there are endless opportunities in accounting career.

Here are some of the Careers in accounting:

a) Public practice: This is an amazing career opportunity in the field of accounting. This can be adopted as a starting of one’s career. One can easily practice as a public accountant. Public accountants need to render many services with a fee. They are adept in coordination or work in collaborations. This is the best way to offer accounting services to a lot of individuals, private businesses as well as governments. Here, it is extremely important for the public account to be certified. This will allow him or her to practice freely and proficiently in one of the management advisory services or as individually. There are several duties a public accountant requires to undertake such as taxation, auditing and management advisory services. Public accounting is one of the best opportunities to obtain a good amount of business experiences. The best part is that all these experiences are multifaceted.

b) Education: Most of the accountants are hired as reviewers, researchers or professors. These professionals ensure consistent development of the profession via making great efforts to clear out and face issues via making efficient research and then distributing the results obtained thereafter.

c) Commerce and industry: An accounting group is extremely important for any corporation irrespective of its size. This group contributes towards preparation and organization of financial statements. The group also keep good tab of costs and takes good care of tax issues and work on global transactions. With good practice and hold in the field of accounting, one may also be hired as vice president for the finance department of a corporation.

d) Government service: Accountants hired for government service are supposed to work either for local, state, or federal level. An accountant in government service put the budgets together, then keep good track of all the government cost, and thereafter analyze the government’s programs.

The above-mentioned are just a few opportunities that you can avail under the category of Careers in accounting. All you require to do is to master yourself in this field and earn as much as you desire.

David Karlson
http://www.articlesbase.com/career-management-articles/careers-in-accounting-can-be-very-rewarding-630043.html

I really love geography and history, and anything to do with world issues…
I’m 16 and thinking about what i want to do after uni…
What careers are available that would let me use my knowledge and continue to learn more about these areas?

Gosh there are loads of things you could do! Have a look at the work of the international section of the YMCA, and the Commonwealth Office for example. Try not just to think of how you could use geog and history, but other skills you’re good at, or you like as well. For example you might be a great researcher, a fab organiser, good with people, great at seeing the solutions to problems before everyone else etc etc, and then look for roles within organisations who deal with world issues. I’d also advise that you try and do some regular voluntary work at uni, even if it’s just a few hours a month, as it can help to keep your horizons broad, and you can make valuable contacts too. Very best of luck.

I really like learning about Tropical Cyclones, but I don’t know of any future careers I could do where I get to research them. I have already looked into Meteorology and Climatology and I am not sure if I want to do those. Climatology seems OK, but I suck at Physics. Any suggestions?

meteorologist, ecologist, tv weather person.

What are some careers that people enjoy doing and make good money (over 75k per yr)? Also, are you still able to make time for your family?

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