what are some not so popular, high paying careers?

[MadSquabbles500]

Really, how can some of these jobs not be oversaturated already and therefore have their pay rates dropped because of over supply.

Some jobs have a negative stereotype like waste management, or fluffer, and some are kind of haphazard so I can understand the need to entice people.

But a job like welder? Come-on, it is not that dangerous, does not have negative stigma, and what can possibly be the entry barriers. There must be some good ole boy network in place.

 

[MadSquabbles500]

Oh yeh, and telemarketer make decent enough money for what it entails

 

[MadSquabbles500]

They made us do this at 60 feet in my scuba class, and it was a bit nerve wracking but not that hard. I kept my eyes closed the whole time, you don't need to see to do it. But it's unnerving to have your eyes closed, no mask on, loaded with gear, 60 feet down, just listening to yourself breathe.

If you can't find your mask at 80-100 feet down, I think it would really suck because then you'd have to do your ascent almost blind, including the long decompression waits at different depths.

How do you even hold your breath during those decompression waits for that long? Or are you referring to the googles?

 

[Poatan Power]

You wouldn't be making that much money at 18-19, sorry. Maybe after 5+ years as a lineman. Don't you have to work your way up and get into lineman school after working for the company in another position?

No, you don't have to work your way up although that may be one of the avenues.

I have friends who did it. They make 100k+ from year 1. Now, that isn't their base salary, but linemen have an inherent amount of OT -- especially in the area I'm in where we have pretty bad storms and snow sometimes down to low elevations.

 

[bref]

I have a friend who is an underwater welder. He was working on a dam one time in Saskatchewan, and turned around to see a massive sturgeon staring at him. Damn near shit his pants. That is part of the job that would freak me the fuck out.

 

[Zankou]

How do you even hold your breath during those decompression waits for that long? Or are you referring to the googles?

Just losing the mask, which you don't breathe through (ordinarily). If you lose your regulator which supplies the air, that's an entirely different problem, and you need to grab your backup regulator, your buddy's backup regulator (assuming you have a buddy there), or an emergency air canister. If you have a buddy, you can even share a single regulator going back and forth.

If you can't get any air supply, then you aren't going to be able to decompress, you gotta go to the surface ASAP to breathe, and cross your fingers re: the bends.

 

[Ashton]

WTF does newbie pay have to do with if it's a high-paying job or not?

There's a shortage of pilots, if you stick with it you'll be making very good $$ in not much time at all.

That is so incredibly false. Airlines are all about seniority: the guys at the bottom of the heap make jack shit and get the shittiest routes while the old gray-hair captains pull in six figures and fly like once or twice a month. No one retires, and almost no one but ex-military pilots with a quadrillion hours get hired on by the majors straight-away. Basically if you want to become a pilot you sit in a regional making garbage pay for a decade until you get lucky enough to have your number pulled at a major. There is only a pilot shortage in the regionals and that's because no one wants to be an indentured servant for 10+ years on the off-chance that they luck out and get on with a major carrier, so they quit and do something else for a career.

^^^My cousin is a captain with Southwest and he makes serious bank. But, he's been doing it forever.

Captain, Southwest, and forever are the keywords here.

 

[highkicknomore]

UFC fighter.

 

[Bayonet]

Really, how can some of these jobs not be oversaturated already and therefore have their pay rates dropped because of over supply.

Some jobs have a negative stereotype like waste management, or fluffer, and some are kind of haphazard so I can understand the need to entice people.

But a job like welder? Come-on, it is not that dangerous, does not have negative stigma, and what can possibly be the entry barriers. There must be some good ole boy network in place.

Physically uncomfortable and sometimes just plain hard. Most people shrink away from stuff like that.

A lot of people are completely gutless, and they get it into their head that any blue-collar job is one step below working alongside an MS13 rape gang in the Exploding Poison Mines. Honestly. I know grown "men" who are straight-up terrified of working with their hands.

These are the same people that get squirmy when they ask me how I butcher moose, or think I'm some walking time-bomb because I'm ex-army and I like fighting sports. Western Civ is really cranking out some gutless folks lately.

 

[Gametheory]

Not so popular but high paying?
Boxer.

Floyd Mayweather is in a sport that's essentially dead and no one watches it anymore.... and he makes about 30million for an hours worth of work.


So you could try that.

Only a handful of boxers make big money.

 

[weich]

How do you even hold your breath during those decompression waits for that long? Or are you referring to the googles?

You never want to hold your breath when SCUBA diving. The air compresses more and more the deeper you go. So if you go to 50 feet take a breath and hold it, then ascend to the surface, your lungs will likely burst.

Free divers, those that don't use tanks, don't have to worry about that because they aren't breathing gas that has been compressed.

 

[weich]

They made us do this at 60 feet in my scuba class, and it was a bit nerve wracking but not that hard. I kept my eyes closed the whole time, you don't need to see to do it. But it's unnerving to have your eyes closed, no mask on, loaded with gear, 60 feet down, just listening to yourself breathe.

If you can't find your mask at 80-100 feet down, I think it would really suck because then you'd have to do your ascent almost blind, including the long decompression waits at different depths.

We did ours in about 25 feet of water, but it was super cold, in the mid to high 30s. When the water would hit my face I would suck through my nose. I got it but it took a few attempts.

 

[ebe9]

Shipbreaker in Bangladesh.

 

[Timetravel_0]

There is a shortage in primary care doctors (i.e. not so popular amongst med students)

I've read that physician assistants are taking the place of primary care doctors. It takes a 4 year degree in a related field to get into physician assistant school which is then only two years long.


Anyone know how long pharmacists go to school for?

 

[StevieSparkZ]

I've read that physician assistants are taking the place of primary care doctors. It takes a 4 year degree in a related field to get into physician assistant school which is then only two years long.


Anyone know how long pharmacists go to school for?

My younger cousin got his bachelors at UCLA and is now in pharmacy school in Omaha, Nebraska.

So iirc, he will be there another 4 years so 8 altogether?

 

[StevieSparkZ]

I play online as well, I usually just do $1-$5 tourney's. I also play at a casino now and then. I find online there tends to be a completely different set of odds, do you find this as well? Online I have seen some crazy hands, stuff that in a real setting only happens once in a while, in the span of an hour. What sites do you use? I have been looking for a different one..

Oh no you didn't.....

 

[goldennboy]

Windmill inspectors.

Tower repair

Roofers, carpenters.

 

[Josh]

UFC fighter.

No, he wants jobs that pay well.

 

[Reverse Flash]

NGO founders/higher ups.

 

[BPA00]

I think most people thing of Vets and commercial Pilots making good $$... albeit both are really hard to get into and require a lot of schooling and/or training.

The way to make good $$ is to do something that relatively few are capable of doing... or putting forth the hard work to do... or do something that is really disgusting and very few people are willing to do... for example, I've heard crime scene cleanup pays VERY well... but that is a gory/nasty/depressing job.