I’m in college, and sadly won’t graduate until 2005. What kinds of good paying jobs (good paying for a college student is over $300 a week take home) are there that are open to me?
I am looking into ticket scalping (this is legal in indiana). i think starting my own business would be the way to go. But as far as i can see, there are only 3 ways to make a good wage w/o a degree.
Government job
entrepreneur
unionized labor
Any other ways?
please don’t say prostitution.
you could get a job at UPS, 5 days a week, 5 hour shifts, you can start at 10.50… thats a little under 300 though. requires no skill or brain power, easy job except for the whole physical part 
also, home depot pays well for cashiers, another easy easy job… i think its 10.50 starting…
hell even walmart starts cashiers around here at like $9/hr plus
this is texas though, i hear wages up north are a little higher…
i mean those three might not sound like the best jobs in the world, but they arent diffcult and you should get paid well…
thats weird. Most every service job here is $5.15-$6 an hour.
Well if your in college like me, there are alot of ways to get cash from the government. These probably won’t apply if you are still claimed by your parents though (although you could tell them about it and possibly get part of the cash). Look up the Lifetime Learning Fund and the Hope Credit (for freshmen and sophmores). Also you can reap in on the cash on your IRS refunds with the EIC if your a student making under 10,000. I know those aren’t jobs but they help.
Other than that, your own business venture sounds good, but plan wisely. Often times typical college towns have a shortage of something (if your in a town that is built by the school). So look around and be creative, just don’t open a bar, lol.
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I read somewhere recently that major league baseball umpires earn a base salary between $84,000 and $300,000 a year. NBL officials are similarly well paid.
Some of us are still trying to figure out how to get a good job with a college education.
I’d look into tech support type jobs. I made $21 an hour after my first year of college during the summer, working for Verizon as a network manager.
My advice would be to go into the restaurant industry. A good waiter at a busy place can easily take home 5 to 7 hundred a week in tips. Cooks make less a week , but it is more stable money. I was a cook at my last job and took home $12 an hour in cash. None of it is rocket science, but all of it is profitable.
If you’re willing to work hard and are good with people, look into sales. My uncle started doing lowly sales work with a printing company a while back 20 years later he’s got two houses and drives $70,000 cars.
Well, if you’re majoring in a subject where there’s a high demand for tutoring (math, perhaps some foreign languages), the hourly pay is quite good, although it might be hard to find enough customers to pull in $300 a week. Try advertising at the local high school and on campus.
If you’re good looking enough you could become a stripper.
The Guard/Reserves is an okay part-time job.
It seems that this subject has been appearing frequently, so I’ll repeat what I’ve previously posted. Before I went to college I worked as a reactor operator at a chemical plant. I arrived with no applicable skills and they trained me. When I ran my then wages through an inflation calculator to answer a question a few weeks ago, it was a little over $55K in today’s dollars.
Another thing I did while going to school was drive a cab. I made enough to live and get through school without any loans, and it’s not particularly taxing work. The big advantage for a college student is that cab driving is a 24/7 occupation, meaning you schedule it to fit around school.
And you meet interesting people.
A waiter can make a nice chunk of change but you’ve got to be in the right restaurant. Lean towards steak houses and awy from diners.
Can you do something with your hands (build/repair/demolish)? I think this is the fastest way to make good money, but there is a definite ceiling. Get a job as a bricklayer or painter and you might make $20 an hour right from the start, but unfortunately that’s probably what you’ll still be making 10 years from now.
A friend of mine took massage classes in the evening that lasted for 6 weeks, and now he rubs people for money in his spare time. Good money, but hard work, and you probably don’t want to put in any more school hours than you do already.
Are you asking about jobs you could work full-time during the summer, or part-time while classes are in session? If the latter, I cannot think of anything legal that could bring you anywhere close to a net of $300 a week, except maybe stripping.
Even if you mean full-time jobs, there aren’t a lot that are going to net you more than $300 a week. As a student myself I’m lucky when I can net around $250 a week with full-time temp jobs. I really think you’ve set your sights too high, especially with the economy in the shape it’s in. Even if a degree isn’t required for the job, you’re going to have to compete with people who do have degrees but who can’t find other work.
Now, if you’re in good physical shape and don’t mind toiling away in the hot sun all summer then you can make pretty good money doing construction work. I’m too weak, sickly, and pale to go that route myself, but one of my many office jobs was at an agency that arranged construction contracts, and one of my duties was typing up the union wage sheets. Some of those jobs paid double or more my hourly wage, although those were the ones like electrician that required special training and skills. But even the guy who paints the yellow line down the middle of the road made better wages than I did.
You beat me to it. The job market here is really depressing. I was offered a job a couple of weeks ago, and their pay scalefor people with BAs was $7.25-7.75 an hour, for 27 hours a week(weird split shift too, not just 4 days a week, either). For some reason I decided that I’d prefer to keep looking since I make a lot more than that when I temp. 
AFAIR the woman said that a HS grad would make $6/hr, btw. Hopefully the job market is better where you are, since here and now employers can pretty much pay people as little as they’d like and get their positions filled since so many people are looking, an article I read recently claimed that over 40% of jobs in this state pay less than $10/hr, so maybe it’s not that bad everywhere.
wow. I recently read on yahoo news that we are in the worst hiring slump in 20 years but i had no idea it was that bad where it was such an employers market.
Many sales jobs don’t require any college education. I’d bet that way more than half of them don’t. The ones that do have to do with something very technical, like servicing chemical supply accounts, which might want you to have a bachelors in chemistry.
I’ve found that many tech-support, customer service and data-entry jobs are good for college students and those just entering the work field.
They tend to always be hiring; they’re generally an entry level position, meaning they train you what you need to know; their hours tend to be flexible, if not a little odd; and the starting pay can be pretty good. I don’t know about $300 a week take home, but it’s possible.
If worse comes to worst, you could always throw out your morals and do some telemarketing. Most places offer various incentives, so the less you care, the better you do and the more money you can make. Not the most reliable source of weekly income, and not something you’d brag about doing unless you were looking for a fight, but it pays the bills.