 This is a common question that I get all the time on this channel. What are the best careers to start without a college degree? So what are the jobs and careers that you can get into? You can get your foot in the door with an entry-level job and then work your way up without a college degree? And this is a great question because the truth is especially in the United States of America, college is incredibly expensive. And not only is it expensive but it also takes over five years on average to graduate with a bachelor's degree. And oftentimes a lot of the jobs that you would go to college to get require a master's or sometimes even more. So many people are choosing alternative routes other than college so that they can save themselves a ridiculous amount of time, money and opportunity cost. So in today's video I'm going to be going over the top five careers that you can get into without a college degree. And if you appreciate this type of video go ahead gently tap that like button, hit the subscribe button, share the video with somebody who needs to see it. I don't have a big marketing team so you sharing the video really helps out a lot. And let's go ahead and jump right into it. The first career we're going to talk about on this list is going to be web developer. So web development is essentially one of the easiest forms of software development. For instance one of the most lucrative ways that you can do web development right now is to work on platforms like Shopify. And there are freelancers that work on Shopify that are pulling in multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. But there are many other different options if you decide to become a web developer. Now out of all the different software development coding type options web development is by far the easiest one to break into. So even if your eventual goal is to get into something more complicated like full stack development, web development is a great place to start. And it's honestly really easy to learn web development for some of these specific platforms as well. Because you basically just have to learn it for the platform itself. So we see 101,000 entry level web development jobs posted in the US, right? Not 101,000, there's way more than that. But 101,000 entry level jobs. And the typical web developer makes about $98,000 a year. So yeah, web development can be a phenomenal choice, also has a lot of room for growth. You can get into other types of software development, software engineering, et cetera. Next one on the list is going to be tech sales. And I've been recently doing a lot of interviews for people that actually went into tech sales. Because I think this is the one where you can get into it faster than any other type of career. With web development for instance, you're going to have to learn out of code. You're going to have to make some projects. It's going to take some time to get into it. With tech sales, I'm consistently seeing people with no experience, no college degree, get into it in one to two months. So there are some other names for this one. Software sales, business development representative, sales development representative. And there are some slight differences depending on whether it's like inbound and outbound and all that sort of thing. But I'm just going to put it all under the umbrella of tech sales. Incredibly valuable skill set, sales in general. And you're in an industry that's probably the best industry to work in in the entire world to consider everything all the way from the salary to the work-life balance. Now here's where it gets absolutely crazy. Look at the freaking number for entry level jobs for sales development. When you type in sales development, there's 103,000 entry level jobs. When you type in business development, there's 284,000 entry level jobs on LinkedIn. So I don't think I had to say anything there. That is absolutely insane that there's that many entry level jobs available for this. And that's why you're able to land jobs so quickly. And people are legitimately making $70,000 a year or more in their first year if they hit their numbers. And by their second or third year, they're easily cracking six figures in many cases. So that is just phenomenal. People are getting amazing results. I will say that tech sales is not for everybody. You know, not everyone has the personality for it. But I consider myself to be an introvert. And I will tell you that my sales job was probably the best and most fun job I ever had. And it caused me to kind of come out of my shell and grow a lot. So even if you think you're an introvert and you wouldn't be good at sales, I think this is probably worth a try. And there's a ton of room for growth here as well. I'm going to be interviewing somebody probably in the next few days or so. I'm not sure when it's going to go live on the channel. But he got into tech sales and he makes over $500,000 a year. If you are interested in tech sales and you want to learn more, I did interview my friend Troy. And if you want to check out his free training, I will put it down in the description below and in the pinned comment. And if you decide to go with his service because he literally gets you interviews, he partners with companies to get you interviews. So it saves you a lot of time, effort and money. And that's how he's able to get people jobs in like one month. Then you can use my $50 off coupon code and that is Shane 50. I'll put that down in the description and the pinned comment as well. Next one on the list is going to be really good if you're an artistic type of person. And that is going to be UX and UI design. Now, typically you would know about both UX and UI, but UI is the more artistic one. So people kind of prefer to go down that route. Now, this one isn't going to have as many options at the entry level. But I mean, what do you expect? You're literally doing art, right? You're getting paid to do art. That is incredibly rare for there to be a job where you're getting paid to do art. Typically artists have to become entrepreneurs, go off on their own, take a lot of risks, et cetera, in order to get paid. So the fact that you can actually do a job and get paid to do art is pretty awesome. And so there is quite a bit of competition. And I should say that UI stands for user interface and UX stands for user experience. And UI is the process of building interfaces that are aesthetically pleasing. And UX is the process of making the user experience better. So when you type in UI design at the entry level, there's about 34,000 job openings, which is still really good. It's not like amazing like the past due, but it's still really good. And when you type in UX design at the entry level, there's about 16,000 job openings. And UX UI web designers make about $87,000 a year. So yeah, this can be a really good one to get into. Typically people will go to some sort of boot camp for UX UI design. There are some people who have courses out there that are really good, that can help you to self-teach or you can buy the course and have a community of other people that are going through the course. I haven't found anything good enough that I would actually recommend it at this point though. Next one on the list is going to be various different trade careers. And this one is a little bit complicated because it's going to be different depending on the city you live in, the state you live in, whether it's union or non-union and all kinds of other different factors. Sometimes you can basically just go in right away and start making money. Sometimes you have to go through kind of like an apprenticeship program where you may not be making money or a trade school where you may not be making money as well. And all of it pretty much just depends on where you live. But with that being said, one of the most consistent ones is going to be trucker. You can get certified and become a trucker relatively easily and quickly and they make really good money. Now I don't think I need to explain what a trucker is. I think everybody knows that. But you do see at the entry level there are 165,000 job postings for truck drivers in the United States. And truck drivers typically make about $68,000 a year and I can tell you they can make a lot more than that especially if they go full-time, they own their own truck, etc. Now this is one of those jobs, especially if you take like the long-haul routes. It can be kind of difficult because you're going to be away from your family. And I think a lot of the more high-paying jobs are the long-haul routes where you're going to be kind of going all the way across the country and you're going to be away for a long period of time. So it can be kind of difficult depending on your lifestyle. So that's definitely something to keep in mind. But trade careers in general, lots and lots of opportunity there. Next one on the list is going to be digital marketing. This is another one of my favorite careers, relatively easy to get into. Don't need a college degree, don't need any experience. Now there's different types of digital marketing. There's paid advertising, search engine optimization, search engine marketing. And then there's different components to the marketing strategy. A lot of the time that's going to be organic posts or maybe email marketing. But yeah, digital marketing has a ridiculous amount of demand as well. You see 92,000 jobs posted at the entry level. And you could expect to make about $76,000 a year. So yeah, this is another one. There is quite a bit to learn. It also depends on which route you go because typically people will specialize in one of those categories that I mentioned before. But it is relatively common to see people with no experience, no college degree, etc. getting jobs within three months or so. Check this video out right here. I think it's going to be great for you if you enjoyed this video and you made it all the way to the end. 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