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.