300 Best Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree

by Michael Farr and Laurence Shatkin

Book Overview

No bachelor's degree? As people like Bill Gates and Thomas Edison have shown, it's no problem Discover the 300 jobs with the best pay, fastest growth, and most openings--no four-year degree required.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593576587
• ISBN13: 9781593576585
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Jist Publishing
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Find the Right Job for You

For those who aren't ready to tackle four years of college, there are still some good jobs out there. In 496 pages, this gives the details on the top 300 jobs that don't require that degree. The top paying one is air traffic controller which pays on the average $102,030 a year. This is a good resource for anyone trying to decide on a career. Another resource is the Occupational Outlook Handbook, which is available in the reference section of most public libraries.

A superb guide for non-college degree job-seekers

Collaboratively written by Michael Farr and LaVerne L. Ludden, with additional assistance by Laurence Shatkin, 300 Best Jobs Without A Four-Year Degree is an impressive and thoroughly "user friendly" 449-page compendium of useful lists, statistics, and thorough descriptions of exciting and satisfying jobs, none of which require a college degree. The basics of the trade for everything from advertising sale agents to welding machine operators are presented in a completely reader-friendly format, along with data drawn from government information about the overall makeup of the people who are drawn to each career path. 300 Best Jobs Without A Four-Year Degree is highly recommended as a superb guide for non-college degree job-seekers and otherwise cash-poor students.