What are the best paying practical careers?
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Financial Advisor. Average pay is $120,000.00 and you can easily gain experience and your licenses when you work in a Financial planner's office or a broker dealer. If you live in a decent sized city you would have no problem at all finding a broker dealer to take you in. Fortune magazine has recently rated Financial advisor as the 3rd best career choice. You can never go wrong with a business degree.
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Check out\nhttp://www.bls.gov\n\nClick on the Occupational Outlook Handbook link.  It's in the left-hand column towards the middle.  From there you can find info on salary- national and state statistics.\n\nRegistered nursing would most likely make you the most money.  You can get your ADN in about 2 years, after your prerequisites, of course.  Every shcool is different.  Thay make around $18 - $25 per hour, depending on experience and whether you work in a hospital, doctor's office, etc.
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me persoally would say nursing.\nyou can make your own deal.  set your work schedule.\nyou have so many places you can get work.\nhostipal, dr. office, school, old folks homes, \nthere are emergency room nurses, etc...\n\nbut here is money magazine's list of the 50 best jobs:\nhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/top50/index.html\n\n1 Software engineer 46.07% $80,427 \n2 College professor 31.39% $81,491 \n3 Financial advisor 25.92% $122,462 \n4 Human resources manager 23.47% $73,731 \n5 Physician assistant 49.65% $75,117
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Any salary that gets you through the day without worrying about food or other nessesities is enough. You should learn to enjoy life without breaking it rich.
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Pharmacist.  You have to work your BUTT off in school, but once you get out, you count pills and talk to people.  All the hard work that pharmacists used to have to do is now mostly done inside the computer.  You have to count, check, and occasionally answer a question.  And for this, you can start making ~$50,000 - $90,000 a year (working retail at Kmart or Target or something).\n\nYes, school is A LOT of hard work, but when you're done, you're set for life.
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structural!!!\nit all depends on what you want\nstarting out chemical and bioengr make the most money.\nmechanical is good if you want to later get a law degree and be a patent lawyer.\nsoftware is also nice pay but most companies are very harsh to their programmers.\nStructural gives you rewards of a job well done by seeing a lasting landmark for decades to come.
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Pay is only a part of it.  Both fields will offer a good living.  The real question is:  What do you like doing that will make you happy in the 40+ hours a week you will be working the rest of your life?\n\nSue
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Without question, the highest paying profession with potentially the least amount of formal education is sales.  Sales careers have created the highest number of self-made millionaires in this country.    \n\nIf you can sell ice to eskimos, and are only willing to commit a limited amount of time to schooling, I would suggest the med tech A.S.  Then, start applying for pharmaceutical sales positions. \n\nMany pharma reps make in excess of 100k per year.  \n\nGo get 'em tiger!
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Good paying job w/good benefits.
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If you want a bigger paycheck, go to college. Most well-paying jobs in the world today require some sort of college education or degree.
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as far as best paid jobs bussiness and pre-med are the way to go (pre-law is up there but not as high as you would expect) but the highest paid college graduates are not nesecarily bussiness majors but ones with general liberal arts degrees, but here's the thing if what you're studying makes you hate yourself all the money in the world can't buy that back, if you're miserable when you take bio, but Com classes make you come alive, do that instead, another interesting point is, a very low percentage of grads go into their major, (I think it's around 30% but possibly less) I'm a poli sci major and I recently met a grad of the poli sci department at my school (a fairly prestigious university) working as a director at a Christian summer camp
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Radiology and dental hygiene would be the best for the time in school and the amount you will make afterwards.  There is a big shortage in the field and provide for many jobs anywhere.
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Retail or office work.  Or if you have any manual labor skills, carpet cleaning, maintenance, landscaping, something like that.
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The highest paying job will be the one you are willing to invest a lot of time into, to become one of the best at it. Every job market has a bottom and a top. \n\nReally the only other option is to luck into cash via inheritance or someone helping you along. Since your are here I guess that's not a option for you. \n\nSince you are just materialistic you should pick out a job market that has the most opportunity for someone who only cares about money.  You could be a bottom feeder such as a Ambulance chaser form of Lawyers.  Or a salesman who calls up the elderly to sell them timeshares or burial insurance.
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Personnelman is probably the safest.\nThe highest paying jobs are CEO of a corporation
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Commerical Real Estate\nInvestment Banking\nLaw Firm\nPlastic Surgeon\n\nyou can go to school and become any of these and get real rich and happy
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I would say any job that your good at and even better if it has benifits (vacation pay, sick pay, 401k) and you see youself doing it longterm its a career.  Good pay is also important.