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What are some interesting jobs that don't require an education?

thats funny, my dad also took up photography as a career when I was very young. He worked for Lifetouch and took me with him alot, and I was basically trained. But knowing how those companies work after seeing my father worked to exhaustion and his absence from my life at the time, I would never want to work for them, plus it is way too rural out here for that to be an option

I also can draw quite well, and was selling portraits for awhile but couldn't stay interested. I would much rather put my talents to work setting up large parties, or making music, or supporting a cause I believe in.
But until I meet a group of activist ravers who are spiritually in-tune and financially independent, who need someone to do absolutely ANYTHING at all for pay, then I probably wont feel too fulfilled with my work.
 
since graduating with a psychology degree my favorite jobs have been working on farms, installing vegetable gardens, and being the foreman for my friend's xeroscaping crew. Physical labor like this will get you a lower-middle class salary but you'll be buff and healthy if you eat right.
 
Mehm said:
since graduating with a psychology degree my favorite jobs have been working on farms, installing vegetable gardens, and being the foreman for my friend's xeroscaping crew. Physical labor like this will get you a lower-middle class salary but you'll be buff and healthy if you eat right.
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This is something Im interested in. I don't have any farming experience, but I'm very interested in gardening and organic farming and the like. I live in a very furtile area of New York; our micro-climate results in upstate NY's ability to produce wine-making grapes and other produce.

Can you give me some more information on this? It seems like a worthwhile and enjoyable occupation.
 
^^I've worked for a University's organic CSA (community sponsored agriculture) and for room and board in Japan. Both were awesome but very low paid. My intention was to learn about soils and how to grow food. Landscaping is more lucrative for entry level positions, but I think that may change in the future. One suggestion on landscaping, try to find a job where you don't use many machines, human bodies aren't built to run those things all day.

good luck!
 
Why do you want to discard your degree? Why not try getting a job as a copywriter or editor?
 
chrissie said:
Why do you want to discard your degree? Why not try getting a job as a copywriter or editor?
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I don't know how to get into these positions... and while I live in New York state, I'm almost 4 hours from the city, and cannot afford to live there (though I'd like to).
 
Let other people choose your opportunities for you: join the peace corps.
 
samadhi_smiles said:
roof houses, thats what I'm gonna do when I get out of my master's

no shame in hard manual labor
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sounds like our educations have been worthwhile.
 
samadhi_smiles said:
roof houses, thats what I'm gonna do when I get out of my master's

no shame in hard manual labor
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that's like the shittiest of all manual labor jobs..so i'm told
 
Well, if you're good with heights and hard labor combined with heights, then it pays pretty good. But I tried that once, on a two story house with an attic. I was told to go up on the beams with a nail-gun and to start nailing pieces of particle board across the beams to 'fill-in' the roof. Only the frame of the house was up at this point, and some supporting beams, and those were the only things between me and the concrete foundation 30 feet below.

I soon realized this was not for me. I had only tried the job in desperation, and thought I could make it on willpower. I guess im just not a manly-man.
I dont think I even belong on this stupid planet.
 
^Exactly!
But where on this planet is that socially acceptable and economically viable?
 
ATF said:
^Exactly!
But where on this planet is that socially acceptable and economically viable?
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nowhere... so we just gotta eek out a meager existence in the public eye, while flourishing in the drug world! :o
 
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