 What's happening? It's Shane here. So today we're going to be talking about high paying entry level careers and these are going to be careers that you can get with no education, some education or a lot of education because not all careers and not all degrees are created equal. When you see the median or the average number for how much you make it a career, it could be that the first five to 10 years you're making almost nothing and then all of a sudden you start making really good money or you might start making really decent money right off the bat and there are a lot of people out there who don't want to live through their 20s and early 30s living off of peanuts. They want to actually have a fun time when they're in the prime of their life and so this video is for you. These are careers where you're going to start making really good money right off the bat and also this isn't always true but it kind of is a good sign or a good hint but if you are making really good money right after graduating or just right off the bat when you first get into a career that's a pretty good sign that there's a lot of demand for that career right now right so there's some careers that historically have been pretty good but they're kind of on the decline and so for that reason when you first enter it you're probably not going to make nearly as much money and then there's other careers where they're on the up and up right so they are careers where in the next 20 or 30 or 40 years they might be the best jobs out there. Now that's not always true but it is something to keep in mind when you're thinking about these. The first one on the list we're going to talk about is software developer so this is a career where you can get into it. Most of the time people are going to have bachelor level degrees a lot of the time they'll graduate with a computer science degree however there are some cases where you can become a software developer without having a degree at all. You can take boot camps or you can teach yourself now it's probably going to be a lot harder for you to get your first job and you're probably not going to get paid as much because they're not 100% sure that you know what you're doing but if you're someone who's really good at teaching yourself like an autodidact that can be a good option for you. For most people though they'll probably end up going to college getting a degree and then starting their first job and software developers make on average around $107,000 per year and it's not uncommon especially if you include bonuses and stock options never mind the benefits that the technology industry is really well known for people to make $70,000 to $80,000 right off the bat in their first job. Next one on the list and I'm going to kind of breeze through these next three just because they're such broad categories but I definitely want to mention them but next one on the list is going to be sales. Now there's so many different types of sales this could range all the way from you know somebody who helps you out at a store they're like oh is there anything I can help you with but then they get a small commission for the sales all the way to somebody who's kind of like a high ticket salesman which technically is what a real estate agent is right so there's so many different types of sales jobs out there I have personally worked several different types I think sales is one of those jobs that pretty much everybody should do even if you're an introvert you are going to get so much out of a sales job it's going to teach you soft skills it's going to teach you how to come out of your shell cannot recommend doing a sales job highly enough and on top of that usually in sales you're going to have like a base salary which is relatively low and then you're going to have commission and if you are good at your job if you're a good salesman you can get paid bank right off the bat how much how much money 70 thousand last month again not uncommon at all for people who go into sales especially if it's one of the better sales jobs to make 70 80 thousand dollars in their first year and that's without a degree at all in many cases next one on the list is going to be another category and again this is kind of a broad category but it's people who travel professionally so this could be something like airline workers or cruise workers and a lot of time you'd be doing a job that you would normally be doing but you're just doing it on a cruise for instance and generally speaking these types of jobs tend to pay more and the reason for that is because most people can't do these types of jobs because they have other obligations like a family right so it's very difficult to work on a cruise for instance if you have an entire family you're not going to be able to see them for sometimes weeks or months at a time and so most people won't do it and because of that reason there's less demand and so therefore in order to incentivize people to work in these industries they end up paying them pretty well and a lot of the time they have really good benefits too so for instance many airline workers get to fly all over the world for free or very close to free and then another one that's loosely related to travel workers is truck drivers so in order to get your CDL in order to become licensed to be a truck driver it usually takes a few months and truck drivers very often can again make 70 to 80 thousand dollars in their first year and there's a lot of upward mobility as well so for instance if you own your own rig it's not that hard to pull in two to three hundred thousand again this is a pretty tough one if you want to start a family because you're probably going to be away from them for weeks or months at a time but very very solid option and I thought I would mention those those are very broad categories next one is going to be a financial analyst and basically they are going to analyze data and collect insights to help other people make financial decisions now when it comes to any job and finance a lot of the time it's very high risk high reward so there's some jobs out there that aren't going to pay you very much but if you are an overachiever you do really well it's almost like a sales job where you can get into positions where you make a ridiculous amount of money we're talking hundreds of thousands even millions of dollars a year in a job now generally speaking with this one you are going to have a four-year bachelor's degree in order to get into it but yeah for the right type of person this can be a very solid option next one on the list is going to be paralegal so paralegals are basically going to assist lawyers and do a lot of the administrative and paperwork side of things now one great thing about paralegal is you can usually get into it with a two-year degree so it's on average like an associate level degree in order to become one and the law industry is kind of another industry similar to finance where it's very high risk and high reward if you work for a very prestigious practice you can go in as a paralegal making very good money we're talking somewhere around 50 to 80 thousand dollars a year right off the bat next one on the list is going to be a web designer slash ux designer which is user experience so this is an interesting one and you'll see this with a lot of technology related careers because a lot of people who go into this do have bachelor degrees but a lot of the time there are shortcuts so you will see people who get into this with an associate degree or sometimes no degree at all they're basically just self-taught and you can start off making over 70 thousand dollars a year as a web designer now again not the easiest thing in the world to learn this from like a bootcamp or like self-teaching not everybody can do that so for many people it would probably be a good idea for you to go to college but for the right person that that could be especially good because of the fact that they won't have to invest you know all that money and all that time in order to go to college they can just start making money right off the bat next one on the list is going to be a marketer and this is kind of a broad category as well somewhat similar to a salesman now very common to get a job as a marketer with a marketing degree so a four-year bachelor's degree but again one of those where you could potentially get a job without a bachelor's and it's going to be very similar to sales where you are probably going to get paid pretty much directly proportional to the amount of money you make the company so kind of depending on what company you work for and the incentive structure that they have you could start off right off the bat making 50 to 100 thousand dollars a year I have a friend who went into a company he started off as a salesman did really well there and then he transferred became a marketer and within a year he actually became the head of the marketing department because he just really knew what he was doing he was just a natural at it and he did not have a degree in marketing and he was making well over six figures a year next on the list is going to be a registered nurse and actually not just a registered nurse because usually that's kind of the four-year bsn version and again in health sometimes it's different you could go to an accelerated program and do it in like two or three years but pretty much nursing at any level is going to make really good money right off the bat and it's also going to be a very stable job whether you're an lpn an rn or an np which is nurse practitioner but for new rn's registered nurses they're going to make probably minimum fifty thousand dollars a year right off the bat sometimes they can even start at seventy thousand plus it kind of depends on where you go what hospital you work with and what your specialty is but yeah there has been a nursing shortage for pretty much my entire life and it seems like it's not going away there's still a nursing shortage so this is a very very good one for you to get into at least for the right person next one on the list is going to be one of my favorite new careers that i've been studying and that's going to be process engineer very similar to systems engineer also has some overlap with industrial engineering as well and basically you're just making sure that a manufacturing process is efficient and effective this one of course is going to require at least a bachelor level degree to get into but yeah you can start off right off the bat making around sixty thousand dollars a year plus and you can go up from there next on the list is going to be a database administrator and basically databases are all about storing information right so you want information to be well organized you want it to be stored correctly but you also want it to be easily accessible but only to the right people right we don't want your databases to be able to be hacked but at the same time you want to be able to retrieve that information in a split second right so this is much easier said than done i know it sounds very simple but it's actually much easier said than done now generally this is another one where you're probably going to have a bachelor's degree in order to get into database administration but it is possible to get into it without one and you will likely right off the bat make somewhere between fifty to ninety thousand dollars a year and it's also one of those careers where there's a lot of upside you can make a ridiculous amount of money as a database administrator you can also move on and become a database architect which is basically where you design the databases yourself so yeah hope this gave you some ideas of careers you might want to look into that do have pretty decent pay right off the bat if you found this video helpful go ahead gently tap that like button hit the subscribe 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