I have been creating successful digital marketing campaigns that have a high ROI for 15 years helping thousands of companies just like yours.

I have been in the construction and trucking industry for a long time and our employees make well over 70k a year and going up, I don’t have any college education and own several businesses. All profitable and all debt free. As a business owner I see many hard working people making a lot of money without any higher education. I personally know many other construction business owners that barely passed grade school and yet are multi millionaires through hard work, determination and not allowing a simple graduate certificate to dissuade them. In every industry from tile, electrical, plumbing framing, brick, Trucking, painting, etc. Most people dont want to enter these industries because in my opinion it is very hard work and you need to hustle to make a profit. But the profits can be very rewarding. The mentality of needing a college degree to be successful is in my opinion, wrong and marketed nationwide. Thats not even getting started on the current student loan fiasco happening. Please be aware that in no way am I against education. But the simple fact is that we dont ALL need to have a college degree, and if flipping burgers is what you truly desire to do and have a passion for it, there is nothing wrong with that either. Who doesn’t enjoy having a great burger, and isn’t one of the largest franchise owners in America or is it the world a burger joint? Currently my wife and I are on our own path to financial freedom and will be Millionaires by age 40 and that’s if our income doesn’t go up at all. Being business owners all we need to do to raise our income is… work a bit more, or, scale and have some more employees, or Start another business, IDK. I found a passion in finances so who knows. Maybe Financial Advisor is in my future.
I guess what im saying is a degree will not ensure that you get a good paying job, or that you get a job at all for that matter. It is your attitude and determination, your quality of service you provide others, among other things, That is what the determining factor will be in your path to success.

P.S. I was only able to get a 6th grade education due to moving to south America at a young age, years later moving back I got a GED and taught myself another language to better serve the people I was working for at the time. At 19 I was making 68k a year and going up. No college education, no High school education. Anything is possible. Especially these days.

Hope you all find your passion

Hi Michael, How did you get started as a Quality Inspector?

Thank you,
Tyler

Would you please help me in what you do ?

Good advice Michael!

As it stands now I am currently at 45,000 a year but I’ve bumped that up to 63,000 this past year because my company allows us to have as much overtime pay as we want. I ended up working a total of 700+ hours overtime last year which brought me to the 63,000 total for 2017.

As for the future I’m working towards getting my certificate and eventually becoming a Quality Inspector III by years end which will bring me to $55,000 a year at my current position.

The company I work for is amazing and the benefits they provide like matching 401k and retirement insurance really is an wonderful addition to the company.

In the end I can only say Salary positions may give you a large amount each year but if your able to land a job that allows for overtime that also has a high pay rate then go for it. I did and it worked out and I hope it does for you as well!

Well said Alex and Jeff. Some fields that require a Master’s minimum as I read are Archives, Library Science, Counseling, HealthCare Social Work, Speech Pathology, I/O Psychology, Urban Planning and Political Science. Also, one to practice law requires 3 years of grad school post college.

It is so sad and heartbreaking to hear of occupations as Social Work, Teaching, Library Science which are helping professions but pay little compared to others and require a Bachelors minimum and even MA to work in field and earn less than fields where not even past high school diploma required.

Thanks Jeff! I been wondering if urban/city planners tend to be on demand if they have a Master’s and are licensed?

That is so true. A friend of mine just got turned down for a job that he was so confident about getting. He has a master degree and was told that he was overqualified for the job as a environmental technician AKA a janitorial position. He has over 9 years in the janitorial field and has decided never again to put that on his resume.