For someone that is going to finish high school Yr 12, what sort of job or career are there that is high paying, good job security and high in demand and relatively easy to get into
What Is The Best Career to Get into That Is High Paying?
LMaserati on 16/06/2015 - 14:54
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Are you one?
I'm not so don't take my word as gospel truth, i'm hopefully going to be doing my 4th year, but i am not sure if I will continue. To make my mind up I have done a tonne of research including talking to several clinical psychologists about their experiences.
Thanks Verapa! I am actually doing an undergrad degree in psychology out of interest (Analysing human's thoughts and behaviours is fun to me). I have never thought much about pros and cons working in this profession.
You can make the same argument for doctors as well?
A med degree would take 7 or more years to complete.
Chasing "the big bucks", straight outta school…
You're on a path of misery.IT. At a bank. You paid heaps!! i know heaps of people. you also get lots of breaks at work and paid study. cons is you just have to work around some rumor mills and incompetent management, but keep changing projects to overcome this and maximize salary. have the time of your life!
Easy Job, High Paying, Job Security…isn't what we all dream of? lol. TBH i don't believe 'Job Security' is a legitimate term used in Australia anymore.
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Engineering.Good pay.Not too much work.
Most of these people talking about engineering don't know anything about the field nor do they have the intellect to become one.
"For someone that is going to finish high school Yr 12, what sort of job or career are there that is high paying, good job security and high in demand and relatively easy to get into"
You wont be happy with the truthful answer, so instead let me explain why you CANT have it all now.
17-18yo + no experience + easy to get into = low paying + low job security
You cant change your age or your experience (they are locked into the formula), so the only things in your control are:
1) Requirements for easy access.
2) Requirements for high paying.
3) Requirements for job security.Now going by the above formula, how easily accessible a job is to obtain, will directly correlate to it's pay and security.
For example, getting a job at Coles is easy but also low pay (especially at your age) and offers moderate security.
Getting a receptionist or admin clerk job is harder, but may offer more pay and similar security.Because you can't offer experience or knowledge in any particular field, what you have to offer is your body. Not in a sexual way.
You could be a labourer.
This is easily accessible and high paying, but is obviously hard work and job security is an issue.
It does however give you EXPERIENCE, which is another part of the equation above.
This then alters the equation in your favour in time, as more experience and age increases the opposite side of the equation to higher paying and better job security.Long story short, you can't break the above equation mate…. only alter it.
At your age, you only have your body to offer if you really want a higher income.
Unless you study or gain experience/knowledge, that forumla wont change.Another field to consider is the Australian Defence Force.
You'll avoid the "under 21 adult full time wage penalty" of being a teenager, and gain something valuable in return.
Sitting in Coles for 4 years is easy.
Getting a trade in the army over 4 years is hard.
Both are easy to get in to, but that's not the problem now is it ;).You need to accept the fact that whatever you do will be low paying. As an employer, why would I give you the same (or more!) money than an adult? You are untested, unexperienced, and immature. That's not an insult, that's the truth. Compared to someone in their 20's, you are all those things.
You need an employer who will ignore those traits, and in return reward you for your hard work and commitment.
These two jobs will break the equation, but only over a short term, and will only harm your prospects later on.1) Prostitute.
2) Criminal.If you really want SECURITY, EASY TO GET IN TO, and relatively HIGH PAYING (compared to what you could get at Coles)… then your body is what you sell.
Sell it to the Australian Defence Force, and in the 4 years your buddies work at Coles or Red Rooster and buy an old crappy Commodore, you'll have far more in the bank, and to offer others…. in return for REAL $$$$.
Depends how much effort you want to put in, what you want out of life and how much risk you're willing to take. It's more important than some arbitrary number and some random job title a person picked from their arse.
I like this analogy:
If you’re a worker in a village who supplies a village with water, you are valuable to its people. There are two types of workers:
Type one worker
Grabs an empty bucket or two, goes to the sweet water lake, fills them up, comes back, and makes twenty people happy. He gets to drink some of that water along the way, and once he gets back, takes some of the water home.
Type two worker
Disregards how much of a “fair share” of water he’s getting. Instead of grabbing a bucket, he grabs a shovel and a little cup, and disappears for a while. He’s digging a stream from the lake towards the village. Often he disappoints people for having returned from weeks of work with an empty cup. But the elders in the village for some reason believe in him and want to keep him (and throw him a bone so that he doesn’t starve for a little while). Some day, he suddenly shows up with a constantly flowing stream of water behind his back. He puts the type one workers out of the water delivery business. They’ll have to go find a different activity and “team” to work with. The type two worker, depending on how much control they retained on that stream, gets to own a good chunk of it. Because the village wants to acquire and integrate that stream, they trade the ownership of that stream for equal-value ownership in the village itself, typically in the form of land or such to the type two worker.
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I'd advise against psychology unless you really really love it and are prepared to make a 6+ year commitment to studying it. It requires 3 years bachelor, 4th year honours and 2 years for masters. (This is assuming you get in at each stage. Masters is extremely competitive, even less prestigious universities have about 300 applicants for 20 spots). If you really want to help people with mental illness for the rest of your life then hats off to you.
Keep in mind the time commitment and if you're future oriented then your salary. There are cutoffs within the public health system for psychologists, from memory the max you can earn is 105k as a clinical psychologist with 5 years+ experience. Don't know if this is accurate. You have the opportunity to set up a private practice which will increase your earning potential but keep in mind that you won't be seeing clients back to back for 8 hours a day 5 days a week, as well as overhead costs of renting etc.
Pros of psychology
- Potential for private practice
- Helping people who need it: families, mentally ill people, assessing IQ & learning difficulties
- Relatively relaxed job in private or hospitals (not so much if you work with the severely mentally ill)
- Job opportunities & security - unlikely to be replaced by a robot any time soon
Cons of psychology
- Long, long road. Can be 7 years or more.
- Earning potential in public system not as good as private
- Can be very lonely & isolated if you are not part of a team
- Can get burned out
- Longer hours than maybe you were expecting - need to accommodate people who work so that means starting at 7am and finishing at 7pm.