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After 12-18 months of training, this in-demand job is ready for the world of code.  Amazon’s average salary for this job is $105,000 per year.

What is a Programmer?

100

Understandably, these jobs in the medical field typically earn $200,000 to $250,000 per year, but it takes a bit longer in school to earn those two letters before your name.

What is a Doctor/physician?

100

This is really a job.  Combine acupuncture and animals to use a non-surgical and non-drug approach to treating animals, earning about $70,000 per year.

What is a Veterinary acupuncturist?

100

When you flush, these guys go into action manage a system of machines, often through the use of control boards, to transfer or treat water or wastewater.  With a high school diploma, this job pays about $50,000 per year.

What is a Water/wastewater treatment plant and system operator?

100

This term describes a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

What is an Entrepreneur?

200

For any other engineering job, you would need a 4-year degree, but this fast-paced engineer requires a high school diploma and several certifications to operate massive electric, diesel or gas-turbine machines transporting freight and passengers around the country.

What is a Locomotive/train engineer?

200

Do you like to talk?  Why not get paid for it?  This career allows you to narrate text for books, radio, television, film, theater, and other productions.  No training is required but it does help to have some voice lessons.

What is a Voice-over artist?

200

Being paid to break the law?  Yes, if you use your powers for good.  Many companies hire these experts to test the company’s software to make sure it is secure.  The average salary is about $100,000 per year.

What is a Computer hacker?

200

While knowledge of CAD and some engineering skills are useful, with a degree in design, you can join the ranks of Santa’s elves with this job and bring joy to children everywhere while earning $80,000 per year.

What is a Toy designer?

200

Earlier this year, (Dave) Ramsey conducted a survey of over 10,000 millionaires.  The top five careers were engineer, accountant, management, attorney, and this notoriously low-paying job tasked with molding the minds of youth.

What is a Teacher?

300

Beyond flying passengers to vacation spots, this job has many opportunities in the clouds to earn between $49,000 to $160,000 per year.

What is a Commercial/airline pilot?

300

These professionals often work for financial institutions and review credit, salary, and other factors to approve people for home, automobile, and miscellaneous loans, while earning a typical salary of about $215,000 per year.

What is a Loan officer?

300

If you like the water, opportunities abound for those with certifications in this field.  For example, you earn $63,000 per year retrieving golf balls.

What is a Scuba diver?

300

Like the medical field, but not all of the studying that comes with it?  This job, with an annual average salary of $70,000, allows you to use technology to find evidence of medical conditions or even monitor the development of tiny humans to be.

What is a Medical sonographer?

300

This type of business operates with a commercial structure to achieve certain social objectives while maximizing their profit, which is then used to fund their social programs.

What is a Social enterprise?

400

Do you love interacting with people who can’t talk back most of the time?  If so, this job, which requires about 2 years of training and pays between $80,000 and $100,000, is just right for you.  Smile!

What is a Dental hygienist?

400

While student loans are structured to take 10 years to repay, the average college borrower takes this many years to repay their student loan?

What is 21 years?

400

You’ve heard of therapy dogs?  What about therapy horses?  This job combines therapy with riding horses and pays about $75,000 per year.

What is a Hippotherapist/Horse therapist?

400

In this job, which pays about $60,000 per year, you use color psychology, trends, statistics, and theory to suggest the best colors for homes, company buildings, brand logos and more.  No college required, but you do need training and a good eye for color.

What is a Color expert/designer?

400

It’s a nasty field for sure, but someone’s got to do it, especially to ensure the rights of marginalized communities.  Today is a reminder of your power as a citizen because you get to choose the people for this job.

What is a Politician?

500

Like cars, but don’t want to sell them?  Consider this field, which pays about $60,000 per year and allows you to assess and appraise the damage to vehicles for insurance claims purposes.

What is an Insurance appraiser?

500

Dining and wining in the most exclusive restaurants in the world, these expert stewards in the food and hospitality industry must pass four exams before joining the ranks of masters in their field with the potential to earn $160,000 annually.

What is a Master sommelier?

500

Interested in forensics but not necessarily a degree?  If you have a strong stomach and don’t mind cleaning blood, guts, and other body parts, consider this job which has the earning potential of a six-figure salary.

What is a Crime scene cleaner?

500

Mixing statistics and money, these experts in uncertainty earn about $115,000 per year making sure their clients do lose money.

What is an Actuary?

500

With an expected 75,000 openings annually, this career allows you to help people prevent and cope with problems in their everyday lives in a variety of settings, including child welfare and human service agencies, healthcare providers, and schools.

What is a Social Worker?