What are your Options in High Paying Jobs if you don't Really have Qualifications?

High paying jobs, basically, come in two kinds. You can have a full-time job where you get paid $100 an hour for the entire work day, all year. That would net you $200,000 a year. The other kind of job is where you get paid $100 an hour but then you are basically a freelancer. You don't have someone paying you every hour of the workday. Making $100 an hour in a country where the average wage is $16 an hour places you at the very top. For full-time job that pays that much, you need to be a CEO, a doctor or a Wall Street type. What do you do though if you don't want or have that kind of education? Is there anything that pays as well? As luck would have it, if you happen to not be the bookish type, there are quite a few jobs that could net you that kind of pay.

Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit started out as a tattoo artist. In his interviews, he makes it sound kind of like he barely got by doing it. The best tattoo artists though, make about $150 an hour. There are tattoo schools that you could go to; but most artists learn their art working with another more established artist. Of course, tattoo artists don't get to work full-time. It works only when customers come in. But apart from that, it's a sweet deal.

Do you have a knack when it comes to seeing through the lens? Well-done photography is one of those high-paying jobs where you don't need any qualifications other than an eye for beauty and a way of expressing what you see through photography. While most average photographers make no more than $50 an hour, the best ones make $100 an hour. Cities around New England pay the best for such jobs - especially when you have several years under your belt. The best paid photographers are the ones who have a lot of skill in graphic art and design.

No one ever knew there was such a thing as a hand model, a foot model or chest model until that episode came up on Seinfeld where George Costanza, out of a job and with no prospects, suddenly discovers that his hands are so perfect that advertisers will pay him a small fortune to photograph his hands for advertisements. Such models of parts of their bodies can make $100 an hour. But they do have to be extraordinarily vain; they have to take great care of that one body part.

Interview Preparation - Learning to Ignore Nothing

Preparing for an interview, as far as most people can tell, comes down to thinking about the best responses to common interview questions, swotting up statistics about the company and personal trivia about the interviewer and the boss. This is all quite necessary, of course. But there are number of lessons you can learn from the mistakes other people make. As you'll see below, the mistakes often occur with things that you would never have thought of. Learn from these in your interview preparation.

The interview preparation process tends to go particularly well for people who really know what job they are interviewing for. When you go in through a recruiter, it isn't something you can take for granted that you'll be told ahead of time what kind of position you are interviewing for, as people have found. You need to be prepared for this kind of thing so that you don't end up at the interview asking your interviewer what the job is.

Humor can often be overrated. To a lot of us, answering any question with some kind of cheeky comeback is a lesson we've learned from watching too many sitcoms. That's not how it is supposed go in real life though. A lot of the stuff they do on sitcoms, the intonation, the words, the jokes themselves,  only sound right in carefully choreographed situations where there are no real feelings involved. When an interviewer asks you a question about something that you don't expect, often, especially with if you're young, your first instinct is to just come up with some kind of smarty-pants rejoinder the way you'd hear in a sitcom. For instance, if they ask you about what you did to beat stress at an earlier job, your cheeky comeback may be some kind of snide reference to a drinking or drug habit. You need to make sure that you drop all the sitcom lines at home before you come.

Sometimes, even if you send three copies of your resume to a company in pristine condition, companies being overwhelmed with job applications as they are, they tend to get misplaced. Sometimes, some bigwig at the company decides to walk in on the interview to look in and asks you personally for a copy of your resume even if the interviewer has one. You can't have nothing to hand out should anyone ask for a copy of your resume or anything else. You need to be equipped for these situations. Surprisingly, it happens all the time. This kind of interview preparation really leaves you confident.

And finally, remember that not all the interview preparation is going to substitute for politeness all around. Make sure that you are on your best behavior not just with the interviewer, but with everyone you meet, leading up to the interview. In fact, make sure that you're on your best behavior walking up the street to the building that the interview is to be in. You never know what people will be on the interviewing panel and whether they happen to be walking beside you as you walk up to the building.

Options For Job Seekers

If you are like many Americans, you are looking for a job. It could be that you were laid-off, downsized, or your company went out of business. You may also be looking for a new job that pays better than what you currently have, or you want to get a second job because your family needs more money. Whatever the case, you have to know where job seekers go for the best job listing and the most opportunities for employment. More people are looking, but the same resources are still out there, and so are the jobs. Hang in there and keep searching.

Job seekers can line up at a local hiring event. These happen once or twice a year, or when a new business comes into an area and is looking to go on a hiring spree. These still exist, so don't assume just because the unemployment rates are up that there are no job fairs out there. These draw a lot of job seekers, but that does not mean your competition is high. Take your resume with you, dress for an interview, and talk to as many people as you can. There may be a lot of people there, but your qualifications are unique in comparison to theirs.

You can also find listings of interest to job seekers through your state. States like PA and NY both have job banks, and many more do as well. These listings are often available to you when you file for unemployment, but anyone can access these. In the past, job seekers use to have to go to the unemployment office to see these, but they are all available online now. You have to sign up, but that is easy. You can then search through the listings to see what is out there. There are some great jobs listed through these banks, so don't skip this if you are having a hard time finding work.

The most typical place for job seekers to look for work is through the classifieds. There are some good jobs there, but not always the best ones. You can use your network of friends to see if anyone knows of any jobs out there that are not listed. You should also rethink what you think of when you think of classified ads. This means going online through job web sites that list jobs all over the country. Though you may not find any online if you live in a remote area, there are usually job listings for most areas. These listings are more thorough, so they often help you narrow down what is right for you more quickly.

If you are not working, be smart. Job seekers that end up finding work first are the ones that are looking for work every day. Don't send out a few resumes a week and then sit and wait to hear back. Your job search should be like a full time job if you want to find the right job for you quickly. Job seekers that take their time are unemployed for much longer because others are beating them to all of the jobs they want. Make your search a full time job and you should be back to work soon enough, even if these tough economic times.

There Are Many Advantages of An Air Force Career

My uncle spent 20 years in the United States Air Force and retired at the age of 38 from active service. He went on to work for the U.S. Postal Service and is now getting ready to retire. We had a conversation a few months ago about what he is looking at bringing in financially after he retires, and it became very clear to me that there are many advantages to an air force career.

When he decided on an air force career, it was because he did not have many other options. He grew up in a small town in Texas and knew that if he did join the military, he would have the opportunity to broaden his horizons, serve his country and eventually have a career that would allow him to provide for his family. Admittedly, he was not thinking of his retirement.

He told me that pursuing an air force career was the best decision that he ever made, because he learned self discipline that he doubts he could have learned on his own or in another field. I have noticed that he carries on a lot of the traditions that he learned in the air force, particularly when it comes to neatness and keeping himself in good physical shape.

He also said that because of his air force career, he was able to live on base housing and shop at the commissary, which saved him a lot of money and allowed my aunt to stay home and care for my cousins when they were younger. He also got to travel a lot and take his family all over the world, which definitely enriched the lives of his children.

Now we are at the point that he is ready to retire from his job at the post office, and we got to talking about what type of financial hit he would take. He informed me that it would be so negligible that he would not even really notice a drop. Not only will he have the retirement pay from the air force, but he will also have his pension from the Postal Service and an IRA that he was smart enough to open years ago at the urging of an air force buddy of his.

It is amazing to me to watch the type of life my uncle has created for himself because of his air force career, and I am very impressed. He has had a very satisfying and fulfilling life because of that career, and he has a lot to show for what he has done. It almost makes me wish I had chosen the same thing for myself!

Learning the Ropes of how to Look for Jobs Online

If you are someone who likes to look on the bright side of things, all the choice you are given in the job market  now that just about every job on the planet is on a job board that you can easily access, must really make you happy. If you're the kind who looks at a glass and sees it half empty, you'll probably see that now that every applicant has a resume on Monster.com, the employers have an infinitely large pool of candidates to choose from too and that you are going to have to compete in a much tougher field. Since there are way more applicants who  look for jobs online than there are companies with positions to offer them, the job boards in general don't really have a great reputation with the hiring managers. To them, there are so many potential applicants to pick from, it can be quite a task narrowing it down. For job seekers who look for jobs online though, there are a few ways by which the competition can be overwhelmed.

A resume is so 20th century these days. What you need to catch a hiring manager's interest today is an entire website with information about you, about what you do, with examples of your work and that talks about where you wish to take your career in the future. It'll be kind of like a LinkedIn profile or a Facebook profile, only much bigger and much better. To look for jobs online isn't just about doing the same thing that everyone else is doing; it is all about finding new ways to wow a hiring manager. And a move like this certainly fits the bill.

While the hiring managers are on Google or Bing trying to locate your website, they are also going to try to call you up on a search just to see what they can turn up. You should probably do this yourself before you apply, to see if there's anything unflattering that Google unearths about you. If there is anything like that, you probably want to see what you can do to limit the damage potential of it. You could either contact the website that publishes the information that you find disturbing and ask them if they could consider taking it down, or you could speak to a search engine expert for ideas on how to push those search results off the first page.

How do most people who look for jobs online go about their search? They go straight to a job board and apply there, of course. What you could do differently is, you could go directly to the website of the company in question, and apply right on the website. Every corporate website offers to accept candidate profiles on a form on one of their pages. Even better would be planning to visit all the trade websites frequented by people who specialize in your industry, and making yourself heard on their forums. The more contacts you make this way, the wider your network will be in your industry. And the better will be your chances.