High end careers are not often announced in terms of salary. Almost everyone is unsatisfied with their pay check. Career Builder’s statistics show that about 83% are making paycheck to paycheck to make ends meat. Although the median payout is currently around $40,690 per year, about 23% say that they would need $250-$500 more per month to live comfortably, 12% say that they would need $501 – $750 extra to live comfortably, and about 20% says that they need an extra $1,000 to live peacefully. Well, this isn’t really shocking statistics because who would pass out on money right? That is, of course, why we’re here reading about employment and the ways to making money.
I hope you like pie charts because I sure do.
1. Become a Truck Driver - You’d be astounded to hear that a normal average Joe would be earning a salary of about $60,000 every year just from truck driving. And just when you think that those many pesky Safeway, Walmart trucks would go away from the freeways, don’t bet on it anytime soon.
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Salary: $15.00 – $25.00/hour. Apply.
2. Become an Appraiser – Being an appraiser seems pretty simple. If you don’t know what an appraiser is, it is someone who simply calculates or determines the cost of damages, most of the time, or is someone who appraises a house or something when you try to pull out a large loan from a bank like Bank of America.
Salary: $12.00 – $25.00 for the average appraiser. Apply
3. Become a Technical Writer - If you are a person who loves to write and simply love to edit, refine, or even better, maintain quality documentations, then being a technical writer may be the best job fit for you. And plus, they have a really good salary nowadays.
Salary: 60k – 120k per year. Apply
4. Become a Mine Manager – An pretty odd position right? Although it may be back breaking work for simply those who are mining, it can be quite profitable being a manager.
Salary: 55k – 90k per year. Apply – Resource
5. Become a Web Designer - Good with CSS, HTML, styling, coding, and that sort of stuff? Web designing can become your profession and your number one job to earning you ends meat with a reasonable pay too
Salary: 60k-90k. Apply
6. Become a Web Software Engineer – Have the basic knowledge of Flash, HTML, and Javascript? You can be earning off designing soft-wares of your liking and making big bucks out of it too, of course, depending on how good you are.
Salary: 60k – 120k. Apply
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