The Other High-Income Jobs: 50 Careers Beyond Doctor, Lawyer, Coder
Most advice about high earning careers points to the same three answers: go to med school, go to law school, or learn to code. If none of those feel right, it's easy to think you've missed your shot.
The Other High-Income Jobs: 50 Careers Beyond Doctor, Lawyer, Coder looks at other areas of the map. It's a straight-talking field guide to real jobs where people quietly earn serious money by doing work that's in demand, hard to automate, and not crowded with applicants.
Each short chapter focuses on one job and answers the questions you actually have:
What does a normal day look like, not just the highlight reel?
How do people really get into this field: school, licenses, apprenticeships, or side doors?
Where does the pay come from-base salary, overtime, call pay, commissions, bonuses, pensions, benefits?
When does it start to add up: early career, mid career, or only after years in the system?
What are the tradeoffs in hours, stress, travel, and wear on your body?
You'll see high-earning roles in the trades, energy, transport, healthcare, public sector, sales, and more - many of them reachable without an elite degree, and some that make the most sense as a mid-career pivot from a boring office job.
The income ranges in the book are ballpark figures drawn from public data and real-world reports. They're not guarantees; pay will always depend on your location, employer, and how far you're willing to push. The goal here isn't to promise a magic number. It's to show you where the other high-income paths actually are, what they cost, and which ones might be worth chasing on purpose instead of by accident.
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