How to live
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10 Highest Paying Jobs You Can Learn (Without College)
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you look 40 how old are you
really I look 40 thanks man I'm actually
55 pretty handsome for a 55 year old
though now I wish I knew about this when
I was in college because this is about
the top 10 jobs that pay a ton of money
that even your immigrant parents would
be proud to brag about where my Asians
at you know what I'm talking about but
these jobs of course pants on and
require no college degrees because let's
face it college degrees aren't exactly
what they used to be but these jobs will
still require some on-the-job training
some certification may be licenses but
doing this is still way quicker cheaper
and easier to do than going through
years and years of college now my early
20's were some of the most stressful
times in my life because I come from
immigrant parents and that means I have
to succeed and take the safe route right
in order to do that you have to go to
college and then you have to get a
degree which I totally failed because I
only went for one year I was on a
scholarship everything was paid for but
I wasn't able to keep my grades up lost
my scholarship dropped out of college
and as an immigrant you guys know as an
only child as well that's you're a
failure you are done just toss the baby
out with the bathwater get rid of it but
despite all of that I was still able to
save and invest my way to have a net
worth of around $300,000 this is my
Robin Hood portfolio it's about two
hundred thousand dollars but considering
my circumstances I'm pretty happy with
that if I could do it you guys can do it
too so the following jobs are the top
ten that pays seventy five thousand
dollars a year or more with no college
degrees which as you guys know 75
thousand a year is about the threshold
with which earning more money is not
gonna make you any happier according to
research you know how I know because
when I get up in the morning I ask
myself do you want to be depressed today
or do you want to live happy and I
choose to live happy understand if
you're going to be happy you have to be
happy
purpose happiness is not going to fall
on you we're not going to wake up every
morning and think oh wow I want to be
happy today you know some mornings we're
gonna wake up and think nobody better
get in my way
I don't feel like going to work I don't
feel like cleaning the house I don't
feel like driving in this traffic some
mornings we wake up grouchy and if we
get an agreement with those thoughts and
we start dwelling on how we feel what we
don't have and all of our problems we
may not realize it but we're choosing to
have a lousy day that's paving the way
for defeat discouragement mediocrity I'm
sorry all of my videos have pretty dumb
intros but I want to ask you what's the
one thing that we all have a relatively
equal amount of time right I want you to
use your time to invest it into yourself
because the money will follow far more
than any stock recommendation I could
ever give you and I wanted to make this
video to show you that while you're in
your 20s you should grind it out use
those exp points that you earned to
boost your education and skill tree
points it's never too late to pivot
direction to change your career to
increase your earnings potential and if
you're young you're watching this maybe
you're in college right now then I want
to ask you to please consider not going
into $100,000 worth of debt getting a
liberal arts degree please don't do it
just
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Media and communication equipment
workers with a median annual wage of
seventy nine thousand five hundred
eighty dollars that is roughly thirty
nine dollars per hour for those of you
wondering with a projected job growth
rate of 8 percent per year through 2026
now true story in 2015 I was the lead
cardistry consultant for the now you see
me films what's a car district
consultant you ask you didn't ask I just
wanted to show off but I taught the cast
how to do that I'm about to tie
everything together but also I just want
to show off fun fact remember that card
when they throw in the white lab and
it's like the super computer chip
responsible for hacking the world yeah
this is this is the card that was used
in the movie this is the hero card that
they toss around with the microchip so
anyway I got to talk to a lot of these
guys on set and these people exist all
over the world in the film industries
and I didn't know this but there are
people that are just whose sole job it
is to focus the lens of the camera there
are other people whose sole job it is to
just mount the lenses on and off the
camera or to just operate the lights and
outside of Hollywood or the film
industry these guys are still in demand
and they maintain audio and video
equipment systems in homes and
businesses and they are still in demand
everywhere this job is a really
interesting career choice and it takes
you all over the world potentially
number nine power plant operators
seventy nine thousand six hundred ten
dollar median income with no degree for
being a power plant operator what's a
power plant a power plant is something
that generates electricity and these
guys maintain and distribute the
electricity amongst all the generators
and they also control the flow and the
voltage of electricity to meet consumer
demand depending on the time of day so I
thought CIL that this was an automatic
process but it's actually very much a
manual
and you can bet some of these guys work
for the companies whose stock I own a
little bit of such as Northwestern
Corporation Southern Company
Centrepointe energy and a few others in
the Robin Hood app no college degree
necessary but you do need some
experience and on-the-job training and
number eights elevator peeps these are
people who elevate your spirits when
you're feeling lonely they cheer you up
and you're feeling down and sad who knew
that this was a job right just kidding
these are people who install and repair
elevators and they earn a median income
of 79 thousand seven hundred eighty
dollars but you will need a four-year
apprenticeship program which is usually
sponsored by either a contractor a union
or an industry association and you will
need a high school diploma and some
on-site training which you will get when
you get the job you will also need a
license to operate in 35 States and fun
fact Otis one of the most popular
elevator companies is actually owned by
one of the companies who I have stocks
with which is UTX or United Technologies
number seven imagine somebody comes up
to you at a party and asks what you do
for a living and you respond I'm a
powerhouse substrain and electrical and
electronic repair alright then so these
guys earn an annual median wage of
eighty thousand two hundred dollars and
they specialize in inspecting
maintaining and repairing electrical
equipment of the power stations to
become one though is not particularly
easy because you do need a high school
diploma and a lot of employers do want
to see some courses in electronics
whether that's from a community college
or from a tech school and you will
usually start out as an electrician to
get some experience first
but CNBC actually did a profile about
two weeks ago about exactly this guy and
he's earning two hundred twenty thousand
dollars per year
just imagine earning almost twenty grand
a month without a college degree if I
was a college student that could be
pretty upset about that obviously it
depends on the area and the demand but
still crazy and number six detective or
criminal investigators do you guys
remember that show CSI basically what
this is I still binge watch that show if
I find it online somewhere you guys
remember the guy that narrated it his
voice they never found
body but they found clues leading to
them solving the investigation that was
creepy
but I always thought that you needed a
college degree for this but all you need
is a high school diploma though some
agencies do require you to have some
Cholet college as my russian college
coursework prep just to get started but
you could probably get it while on the
job as well median salary of eighty one
thousand nine hundred twenty dollars
amazing these guys are awesome
and number five commercial pilot come on
this has to be a dream job for every kid
at one point or another right it was for
me in fact if I had my citizenship when
I was in high school and applying to US
Air Force Academy's my life today would
be so different but they didn't allow
any Rooskies to enter no Russians I'm
the pepper to the salt you actually can
get your pilot's license which is not
that hard to get you just have to have a
little bit of money to go through flight
school which you can do at an FAA
approved flight instructor school and
then get your pilot's license to become
a pilot with a median salary of eighty
two thousand two hundred forty dollars
incredible man I would love a job at
Boeing or like Lockheed Martin that'd be
crazy
and number four power distributors and
dispatchers these guys are kind of
similar to the power plant operators
except instead of operating the
machinery these guys control the flow of
electricity by maintaining the
Transformers the converters and the
circuit breakers and you only need a
high school diploma as well as a
certification from the North American
Electric Reliability corporations System
Operator certification program or nurse
cups worth it though because their
median income is eighty six thousand
four hundred ten dollars a year and
number three first line supervisors of
the police these include your captain's
your patrol sergeants and true-story
one of my best friends he is a police
officer here in the Vegas area earning
more than six figures a year with no
college degree whatsoever he's
absolutely loving it amazing benefits
amazing pension plan and the median
income is eighty nine thousand thirty
dollars yes a little dangerous but I
think worth it definitely top three
number two nuclear power plant operators
true story I've got a friend from high
school who's doing this the median
income is ninety four thousand three
hundred fifty dollars but my friend
is earning a lot more than that these
guys control the control rods that
generates the electricity they monitor
the turbines and the cooling systems to
go along with it to prevent Chernobyl
from happening again definitely go watch
that series if you have it really really
good all you need is a high school
diploma and lots of on-the-job training
where you will eventually prepare for a
licensed exam and the number one job on
this list that tops out all the other
jobs in terms of income is
transportation storage and distribution
managers probably the least glamorous
job on this entire list these guys
manage shipping goods in a way that
makes the most sense these guys plan and
coordinate how to manage inventory and I
always thought this was an automated
process but apparently supply chains are
an extremely complex manual process and
I imagine Amazon employs quite a lot of
these people if you guys have a high
school diploma and five years of
work-related experience you can land
this job and earn yourself ninety four
thousand seven hundred thirty dollars
and that is forty seven dollars roughly
per hour crazy now some of these jobs
will inevitably be easier to access
depending on your location some of these
jobs you can appeal to you more so than
others but above all the one thing I
don't want you to do is submit a
thousand applications into a thousand
different places thinking that someday
if you submit enough applications you're
just gonna land a better career that is
not how it works you must know somebody
like that maybe you're like that where
you just keep submitting jobs and keep
wondering how do my friends land these
like $30 an hour jobs they must know
somebody that's not how it works the
only excuse you really have is if you're
like me and maybe you live in a town
like Las Vegas we're actually getting a
good job may depend on who you know but
it doesn't have to be that way and of
course these jobs are gonna require some
preparations they're going to take a
little bit of your money and a little
bit of your time from six months to a
year or two years but take that time
learn that skill get that certification
or that license and start earning a ton
of money so pick one of these from the
list and stick with it if you're looking
at this list and you're like Andre I
don't want to do any of this stuff that
only this doesn't appeal to me I don't
wanna be any of these things just
remember your career and your job does
not define who you
the way that you make money will always
change it's always fluid as life goes on
I have held so many jobs that I thought
I was gonna keep for the rest of my life
but then life happened and some of the
smartest people I know their jobs have
constantly changed and there's some of
the smartest and most successful people
I have ever met and some people will
even tell you don't ever prioritize
money as the sole driving force which i
100% disagree with if you are fortunate
enough to have a job that's earning you
75 K or 100 K or more cut down on all
your costs try to get a 65% savings rate
suck it up for five to ten years use the
excess that you're earning from those
jobs invest it at at least four percent
return rate whether that's with dividend
stocks like I'm doing or with real
estate or whatever you're comfortable
with and in exactly ten years your
passive income is gonna be the same as
your expenses at which point you can
quit that job and then spend the rest of
your life figuring out what you want to
do that is the crossover point that I
talked about in my videos and that's
what I want for everybody if it was me
and I could go back and get one of these
jobs
I would pick none of them actually I
would go into the tech sector and learn
how to code within a few months to six
months to a year going at your own pace
just by learning a coding language and
getting certified you can get hired by
some tech company to do some backend
coding and get paid like $80,000 a year
starting salary or higher it's unreal
just how accessible tech has become
lately and I did so much research before
starting my youtube channel about what I
wanted to do because if this YouTube
thing fails this is still on the table
for me I actually have a friend who
works in the tech sector
who's the tech lead for snapchat and he
said Andre give me two weeks and I will
make you lethal I don't know what that
means but it makes me feel cool I do
love cybersecurity though just because
you have to think creatively and outside
the box maybe even outside of the coding
realm and even how to extract
information from people but it's a
fascinating thing and I think Tech is
really where the money is at right now
you can travel anywhere work from
anywhere as long as you have a laptop
you now have a skill that empowers you
to be a
amazing asset to so many companies
that's what I would consider if I could
go back and do it again no college
degree required guys love each and every
single one of you enjoy the rest of your
week I will see you all on Friday
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I don't recognize myself myself cuz I've
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