What jobs pay quite well but need little or no qualification

[jogon]

berlintaxi said:

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.

Sales isn't for everyone but if your middle class and not very talented/educated then you can always become a chartered surveyor. Seems to work for most of them.

[johnfm]

Recruitment.

Zero qualifications needed.

[rossi1001]

Insurance broking,though you would probably have to start on a lower salary for a year or so in an administrator type role at a brokers initially.

I've done some of the CII qualifications since I started but most of what I know is from experience.

I started in insurance claims in my local home town back in 2007 on £13k a year. I'm now working for a lovely little firm in the city (having worked for a horrible large one in between) and I'm on close to £40k with a potential bonus on top. I'm 29 years old.

[neenaw]

Depending on where in the country you are, ambulance work will pay £25k+ with pretty much no qualifications needed and if you want to further down the line there's opportunities to train further:

http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/263cfba506c4027c...

http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/263cfba506c4027c...

I work with quite a few guys who have maybe one or two GCSE's each but with a bit of overtime can easily earn £35-£40k

[Nickbrapp]

fire and security. you dont need qualifications and you can pick up the skills as your training, maintenance is piss easy, our company get 24k plus car and tools, laptop,phone overtime etc.

lots of cowboy companies about unfortunately, but i work for a good one, as a commissioning engineer and at 22 earning £27k basic plus bonus and overtime. i had no skills other than gcse but learnt my trade with a apprenticeship.

[50 not out]

I'm a trucker on artics, rates are ten pound an hour plus ten pounds a day meal allowance, at 70 hours a week that's a fair income

[AndyT77]

plasticpig said:

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.

I think the commute from the North West would rule that out!

[agtlaw]

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[Vaud]

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.

He is good as well. The best thing? He doesn't come across as a salesman.

[Fattyfat]

neenaw said:

Depending on where in the country you are, ambulance work will pay £25k+ with pretty much no qualifications needed and if you want to further down the line there's opportunities to train further:

http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/263cfba506c4027c...

http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/263cfba506c4027c...

I work with quite a few guys who have maybe one or two GCSE's each but with a bit of overtime can easily earn £35-£40k

This. Working at Paramedic level is the best way to progress though and that now requires 3rd level education.

[bigfatnick]

50 not out said:

I'm a trucker on artics, rates are ten pound an hour plus ten pounds a day meal allowance, at 70 hours a week that's a fair income

Ditto, About £600 a week lands in my account (working away, maxing my hours) and really enjoy my job. Spend all my time staring at countryside, chatting st with fork lift drivers at factories, sat waiting with my iPad in hand, messing about on farms or driving long distance to Scotland.

I'm pretty sure its a miserable job if you live in the south, but I know you can make the money I do doing miserable supermarket work, and be home every night. Ive been offered more money for similar to what I do but in a less nice truck than what I do by one of the companies we subbie for too. It's not a bad job (though many truck drivers would disagree). I've had a lot of jobs, from training to be a civil engineer (suicide stuff) to shop and posh hotel work, to labouring for a demolition company in the summer heat of Sydney Australia and aside from the 4 months I spent working on a cattle station (ranch) in Australia, truck driving is my favourite, and certainly the best compromise of easy/money/not miserable. The biggest downsides are being away all week (doesn't bother me) and how it's affected my fitness/waistline.

Edited by bigfatnick on Friday 1st May 19:12

[98elise]

CAPP0 said:

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?

With ITIL take entry level 1st line support job (resetting passwords etc), work up from there. When I was running a suport team 10 years ago starting salary was in the 20's.

With ISEB or Prince2 you are looking at project work as a BA. Again bottom feed an entry level job and work up. I've seen plenty of people with business experience transfer (me included).

Do well and pick up experience, then move into contracting and you could be looking at £400-500 per day.

[russ_a]

I.T Tester, £200 - £400 a day ! Living the dream!!!

[allergictocheese]

agtlaw said:

Drug dealer;
Pimp;
Fraudster;
Burglar; and
McKenzie Friend

Fixed that for you.

[otolith]

You play the guitar on the MTV. May need to learn to play the guitar. Or them drums.

[DUMBO100]

swerni said:

Vaud 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.

He is good as well. The best thing? He doesn't come across as a salesman.

You say the nicest things

It may not be a Salesman's Swerni but you certainly have personality

[Some Gump]

bigfatnick said:

really enjoy my job.

I saw a documentary that implied the perks of the job were amazing - as long as you like dogging =)

[Some Gump]

DUMBO100 said:

You say the nicest things

It may not be a Salesman's Swerni but you certainly have personality

What the fk is that orange thing? Is it a Porsche that's been acid dipped to remove all taste?

[Ayahuasca]

Boxing champion

[conanius]

I think the 'easy' stuff is IT Service Management.

My job currently is basically... talk to people... and make decisions. I love it, and but obviously there is a bit more to it. The key skill is, take in loads of information and quickly understand and make sense of it.

I started out working on an IT Service Desk about 10 years ago. Literally swapping peoples printer toners, resetting passwords, etc etc. Depending on where you work and live you'll be on anything from £15k to £25k doing this. Options to do some sort of 8x5 Hours, or if you want to earn more, on a 24x7 Service Desk.

I then jumped through a couple of different IT Service Management Disciplines:

Incident Management - managing the resolution of 'big incidents' - The pay for these vary massively. I've seen them from usually £20k ish all the way up to over £60k. Granted, as the salary increases the 'definition' and pressure does to.

Problem Management - trying to find how to fix repeating/major issues permanently - This is usually somewhere from £20k to £40k ish

and then did a stint as an IT Service Desk Manager

That led to me doing a few years as a Service Delivery Manager - sitting between IT and the Business, direct line into the IT Seniors, making sure we did what customers wanted/needed of us, and translating between Technology and Business speak. I'd say that in reality it was a combination of Account Management and Service Level Management (so, doing stats and reporting to show we met our targets).

From there, i've since done 2 different things...

I was a Technology Lead for one of our internal capabilities, managing all the customer relationships and requirements... lots of chats over coffee and just basically 'knowing people'.

And now, I'm an Operations Manager. I manage a 3rd line technology team and about 19 people across 2 sites. Again, working with Service Managers and Tech areas to ensure we deliver what is needed.

All of these jobs are relatively straightforward and common sense - but as its 'Live IT Operations' be prepared to go on call and do long hours when things go wrong.

The key thing for my 'success' was simply saying 'yes' to every single chance to try something new/go on a course/do a presentation/whatever. It helped me loads.

Realistically, the only qualification you need is ITIL Foundation so you 'know the lingo' and thats it.