What jobs pay quite well but need little or no qualification

[budfox]

Website management.

I learned a bit of Wordpress, how to write English, I'm a fairly decent photographer and have a reasonable idea about design and basic SEO.

I'm an expert at none of it, but easily good enough and I have no shortage of clients paying me £35.00 per hour. All of them could probably manage to run their own websites, but none of them want to. They just like having a reliable bloke on the end of an email who'll just get what they need done.

I also have two clients on a fixed fee bringing in a guaranteed £800/month so there's always enough to pay the bills.

Nice and flexible self-employment pulling in £25k without working very hard at all.

[98elise]

Anything in IT. A bit of experience, and the right courses (ITIL, Prince2, ISEB etc) will get you a reasonable salary.

Those are short courses BTW, days/weeks of training rather then years.

[condor]

I'd have thought window cleaning has to be up there.

[W124Bob]

Driving trains, but then I joined the railway in '78 when BR still took on 16 year olds as drivers assistants. Any one with an average education can still aspire to driving trains, there has been a long running thread on this very forum.

[anonymous-user]

production planners get between 24-34k and no real qualifications needed, and you can use your food knowledge.

[Evoluzione]

Read here: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[AndyT77]

Thanks for all the replies, i'm currently a Production Manager in the Food Industry, so do have some transferable skills. I've also been in Technical, NPD and Process, so would have little to no trouble finding something with even more money than i'm aiming for, its just that i fancy a change from the industry i'm in. Can;t really explain why, its just all i've done, and i think i've had enough of it!

[CAPP0]

98elise said:

Anything in IT. A bit of experience, and the right courses (ITIL, Prince2, ISEB etc) will get you a reasonable salary.

Those are short courses BTW, days/weeks of training rather then years.

Genuine question: you pass one of the above, how/where do you get into a role purely on the back of that when you have no IT experience?

[bga]

CAPP0 said:

Genuine question: you pass one of the above, how/where do you get into a role purely on the back of that when you have no IT experience?

There are always companies who are offering way under market salaries & will hire on the basis of someone being trained. Stick that out for 6-12 months to get the experience & then move into a role that is paying better. A lot of it isn't difficult as long as you have people skills.

[groundcontrol]

W124Bob said:

Driving trains, but then I joined the railway in '78 when BR still took on 16 year olds as drivers assistants. Any one with an average education can still aspire to driving trains, there has been a long running thread on this very forum.

+1 very few drivers at my place have any qualifications beyond secondary school.

[plasticpig]

Yon can earn that sort of money as a day labourer on a construction site in London. No skill required apart from being fit and reasonably dexterous.

[berlintaxi]

swerni said:

I've been doing it for 26 years, spent the last few traveling the world but would hate to have to have a 5 series.
I don't have a 'salesman personality" but do have an HND from a third rate Poly.

I've been in sales for a similar length of time,never had a 5 series or played golf and have no idea what a "salesman personality" is.

[Djtemeka]

BoRED S2upid said:

Porn star or other jobs in that industry.

No money in it for men. Only job satisfaction 😁

Unless yours in gay porno. "Gay for pay" 😱

[okgo]

berlintaxi said:

I've been in sales for a similar length of time,never had a 5 series or played golf and have no idea what a "salesman personality" is.

I think its likely a little obtuse to claim not to know what he meant by the comment.

I know lots of people in sales, and indeed I am in it myself, corporate days be it golf, boats, flash meals are pretty common in many different sectors where you are selling to businesses vs the public...

Agree with Steve though, it doesn't take much to earn £25k selling, hell you could get a lowest of the low job at Haymarket in ad sales and be on £25k from the get go if you weren't terrible.

[okgo]

swerni said:

Ooooo "obtuse" look at you with your posh insults
You must be in advertising.

PH is full of people being obtuse, pretending not to have heard of famous folk and the like, I have never used the word as much as I do here

[Sump]

berlintaxi said:

swerni said:

I've been doing it for 26 years, spent the last few traveling the world but would hate to have to have a 5 series.
I don't have a 'salesman personality" but do have an HND from a third rate Poly.

I've been in sales for a similar length of time,never had a 5 series or played golf and have no idea what a "salesman personality" is.

You don't know what it is because you have it.

[berlintaxi]

Sump said:

berlintaxi said:

swerni said:

I've been doing it for 26 years, spent the last few traveling the world but would hate to have to have a 5 series.
I don't have a 'salesman personality" but do have an HND from a third rate Poly.

I've been in sales for a similar length of time,never had a 5 series or played golf and have no idea what a "salesman personality" is.

You don't know what it is because you have it.

Seriously I don't have a clue what it is, worked with many people over that time and everyone has been different,some good, some bad, some indifferent. Obviously this is why I haven't reached the dizzy heights of 5 series and golf days.
Although I would agree a salary of £25000 should be fairly easy to achieve in sales, qualifications or not.

[singlecoil]

Self employment doesn't require any qualifications apart from the ability to do whatever it is that you are offering to do. No-one asks you what qualifications you have, or why did you leave your last job etc. Or, appropriate in my case, how old you are. It's very unlikely any employer would offer me a job at my age, but my customers don't seem to mind

[lloydmartin1991]

Would you fancy working in a bank?... I started as a cashier when I was 18, 5 years later I've nearly doubled my wage as there are many promotion opportunities. I had no sales experience, I was previously working for Argos.

Thick skin is needed though!

[ghamer]

Gas fitter,no entry quals req'd although lots of training req'd to get up to spec.Earnt £55k last year.Can't complain and enjoy it to boot.Good Luck.

Edited by ghamer on Wednesday 29th April 21:57