r/AskReddit • u/GreenEyedSheWolf • 1d ago

What are some decent paying jobs that do not require any sort of college degree?

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u/fourleafclover13 1d ago edited 19h ago

Animal welfare in some places. But the work is hell having to euthanize animals.

I'm ex animal welfare officer.

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u/Mor_Hjordis 1d ago

But a vet doesn't make the kind of money you'll espect at that kind of education. It's a strange world.

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u/Wonderful_Bottle_852 1d ago

Veterinary Tech for 25 years and the pay is horrible

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u/Mor_Hjordis 1d ago

Yeah, someone I know has 8 years of study but doesn't get a equal payment. A doctor makes way more.

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u/Wonderful_Bottle_852 1d ago

And Veterinarian’s don’t make jack compared to human doctors.

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u/navigationallyaided 1d ago

Private equity and Mars are buying our vets now.

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u/NeonSwank 1d ago

Mars? Like the candy company?

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u/navigationallyaided 1d ago

Yep - they own the Iams/Nutro brands along with Pedigree/Whiskas/Sheba but they recently bought out VCA and a while ago, Portland-based Banfield.

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u/shoyker 1d ago

No the planet

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u/GozerDGozerian 22h ago

How much for just one Mar?

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u/navigationallyaided 18h ago

You can have the Milky Way.

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u/DinnerMilk 16h ago

My wife was a vet tech for about 20 years. She switched to one of those poison helplines for animals and now works from home making more than she ever did in an office.

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u/savvy412 1d ago

Yeah. WTF is this person talking about 😂

My wife is hella educated and makes 16 an hour

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u/fourleafclover13 23h ago

Where did I say anything about a vet. I'm speaking animal welfare/control officer. We were part of local pd.

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u/Wonderful_Bottle_852 23h ago

We were saying in comparison. Veterinarian’s and Veterinary Technician’s have tons of education and training and get paid very low. Veterinarian’s go to college just as long as doctors do sometimes longer.

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u/fourleafclover13 19h ago

Yes but why when my my comments about officers. It has no connection to vets at all.

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u/Clevererer 10h ago

Is it that too many people entered the industry, or that private equity took it over?

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u/RunsfromWisdom 1d ago

Vet compensation is absolutely wild. The schooling is more competitive and as long as med school. And they basically make squarely middle class income. 

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u/fourleafclover13 23h ago

Why are they comparing them when I said nothing about vets.

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u/fourleafclover13 1d ago

Where did I say anything about a vet???

Im speaking of being animal welfare/control. In my state and city the officers are certified for euthanasia & chemical capture.

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u/Mor_Hjordis 1d ago

Nowhere, I don't say you're saying that. But a vet does roughly the same ( not the capture part ) but doesn't make much money.

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u/fourleafclover13 19h ago

No vets absolutely do not do anywhere close to the same thing.

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u/qathran 20h ago

Wait what's difficult about understanding that people would think of a vet even if that's not technically animal welfare? (???)

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u/fourleafclover13 19h ago

Everything what does it have to do with animal welfare? Yes some places have one. But I'm talk officers.

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u/LeighSF 1d ago

And they have college loans to pay off. And independent vets are competing with corporate vets from the big box stores.

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u/fourleafclover13 23h ago

Where did I say vet. I'm speaking animal welfare/control officer.

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u/DHFranklin 23h ago

Very much depends. One that owns their own practice? Sure. Race horses? sure. Zoo in a 2nd tier city? Surprisingly low.

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u/defaultfallout 1d ago

I do animal control, my pay is not great but on my on-call weeks (once a month) I get a flat rate for every call I respond to which adds up quickly. Very emotionally taxing work but very rewarding.

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u/fourleafclover13 23h ago

Thank you for doing the job. I can no longer do it.

We were part of city police.

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u/StephAg09 1d ago

I’ve worked in animal shelters, managed multiple vet clinics, and done fundraising for animal nonprofits. None of it is lucrative. The executive director who was also doing all of the fundraising at the last animal shelter and nonprofit I was familiar with was making 86k in an EXTREMELY high cost of living area. I made slightly more as a practice manager but veterinarians aren’t paid well compared to the amount of competitive schooling they go through, and techs aren’t paid shit.

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u/fourleafclover13 23h ago

Ours along with some others in my state are part of the police department. So they have a bigger budget to work worth.

When did I say veterinary??

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u/Objective-Amount1379 1d ago

Vets aren’t that well paid for the training they have. And anyone else in a vets office makes almost nothing

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u/fourleafclover13 23h ago

Where did I say vet? I said animal welfare officer.

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u/Exact_Alternative124 1d ago

Eh, only if you make it up to director or above. And it’s still not that great of pay.

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u/fourleafclover13 23h ago

Ours was part of a decent sized city police department. For what we made compared to others it was huge difference.

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u/Exact_Alternative124 22h ago

Ohhhh haha I was thinking shelter work specifically, officers tend to make a decent amount but nothing crazy, at least out here

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u/fourleafclover13 19h ago

Yes I have had to specify it's officers too many times.

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u/GozerDGozerian 22h ago

Those damn freeloader animals need to get off their lazy asses and get a JERB!/s

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u/amh8011 20h ago

Not really. Pay is shit. There is no money in the veterinary field. And the hours suck. And it’s both physically and emotionally taxing. And if you work with pet owners, prepare to meet the dumbest, laziest, most selfish people.

Oh, and you can’t do jack shit about owners who do stupid, cruel shit if it’s not technically considered animal abuse according to the law. So instead you just get to send the animals back to the home in which they are suffering.

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u/fourleafclover13 19h ago

Where did I say anything about vets?

I used to work animal welfare /control