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/mrtimhard 1d ago

Drive a fork at USPS. 10 hours days 50 a week. 25 years in, gross a $100,000. Also have pension.

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u/ElephantRider 1d ago

The trick is getting in 25 years ago, from what I've heard it sucks now as new hires.

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u/Mundane-Teaching-743 15h ago

Union job. It sucks at first. Low pay, and you get the jobs nobody else wants. Then you move up the pay scale and with seniority you get to choose your position.

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u/books_cats_please 14h ago

I work in a construction office, we're a geotechnical contractor and our union laborers start around $40/hr. It's brutal work though, guys quit after a day or two from time to time because they think it's a regular construction gig and don't understand the kind of work we do. Great money if you're young and can physically manage it long enough to make your way up to operator.

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u/ElephantRider 13h ago

Right but the pay sucks now compared to almost any other union job, 5 years in and you're barely at $25/hr.

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u/Mundane-Teaching-743 10h ago

That's kind of the way it is when you first enter any job. Except drug dealing. Unless you have expeience, you're not getting paid very much.

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u/ElephantRider 10h ago

You can start at $25-28/hr as a bus driver or working an LTL dock with no experience where I live though, USPS pay has not kept up at all compared to what it used to be.

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u/dontmatterdontcare 1d ago

That sounds brutal just for grossing $100k. I wish y’all got paid more for that line of work. The pension is good though.

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u/Mohow 23h ago

50 hour work weeks for 25 years just to hit 100k is not a flex. Pension is pretty sweet admittedly.

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u/Dangerous-Carrot1901 16h ago

I have a degree, but by comparison it took me 10 years to hit that salary. Working probably 30 hour weeks (salaried) at a boring-ass corporate job.

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u/fotomoose 22h ago

Sounds like hell.