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A 33 year old has 2 years to train/school for a new career, what do you suggest?

Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:13 am
Posted by StringedInstruments
Member since Oct 2013
18460 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:13 am
Only stipulation is that the career must be as lucrative as possible and must make more than $48k/year.

Computer programming is the only one I can think of that can be learned and practiced in a short enough time to get a job.
Posted by baseballmind1212
Missouri City
Member since Feb 2011
3262 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:14 am to
welder

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Posted by Salmon
On the trails
Member since Feb 2008
83630 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:14 am to
trade school?
Posted by THRILLHO
Metry, LA
Member since Apr 2006
49519 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:14 am to
Coding boot camp.
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
89613 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:15 am to
Sales, baw. Almost everything in this country, whether goods or services, has to be sold.
Posted by AFtigerFan
Ohio
Member since Feb 2008
3261 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:18 am to
Registered Nurse. Do a 2 year RN program, get a job, bang some hotties, finish your BSN while working, become the boss, bang some more hotties, do Nurse Practitioner or Nurse Anesthetist program while working, make bank, bang hotter hotties. You're set.
Posted by ThatMakesSense
Fort Lauderdale
Member since Aug 2015
14832 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:19 am to
HVAC
Posted by jmh5724
Member since Jan 2012
2138 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:19 am to
Ptech
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
26697 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:20 am to
X ray tech..
Posted by Tigertracks
Houma La.
Member since Nov 2007
765 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:21 am to
Respiratory therapist. Two year program, starting pay 55,000+.
Posted by CE Tiger
Metairie
Member since Jan 2008
41584 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:23 am to
learn primavera and become a project controls specialist
Posted by skullhawk
My house
Member since Nov 2007
23182 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:27 am to
Learn a trade

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Posted by SabiDojo
Open to any suggestions.
Member since Nov 2010
83951 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:29 am to
Harvard MBA
Posted by LSU_Saints_Hornets
Uptown NO,LA
Member since Jan 2013
9739 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:30 am to
quote:

career must be as lucrative as possible


quote:

must make more than $48k/year.



So you consider $50k a year lucrative?
Posted by madmaxvol
Infinity + 1 Posts
Member since Oct 2011
19194 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:32 am to
Sonography/ultrasound technician...2 year programs are typical. Average salary is $29.00/hr

Sonography Payscale



Posted by MetryMike
Member since Jun 2013
160 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:33 am to
Any medical tech, respiratory, radiology, etc. in a hospital. In addition to hourly pay, you get bonus pay for working nights (those twelve hour shifts that end at 7 p.m.) and weekends and double pay on Holidays. You have a college degree, so if you are really serious about going back to school, also check into a Masters in Health Administration and become a hospital boss.
Posted by mule74
Watersound Beach
Member since Nov 2004
11309 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:35 am to
quote:

must be as lucrative as possible and must make more than $48k/year


Not even trying to OT douche billionaire but $48,000 is pretty easy to make. We hire kids straight out of college with no experience and pay them $50,000.
Posted by TakeAGander
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2010
557 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:40 am to
Associates in nursing. 24 hours or so of pre- requisites, followed by 4 semesters of nursing school. Check out Brcc. Good money, long as you don't mind working weekends, nights, and holidays. Also make sure your financially in a position not to work while in school.
Posted by CelticDog
Member since Apr 2015
42867 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:41 am to
Nursing.


Programming puts you in eternal learning curve. Downsides include unrealistic due dates, system must work or people die, hiring contractors to do new technology, stress.

Degree in nursing if you already have b.s. should be doable & you will make good money.
Posted by Hawgeye
tFlagship Brothel
Member since Jun 2009
31085 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 8:41 am to
quote:

Only stipulation is that the career must be as lucrative as possible and must make more than $48k/year.

Computer programming is the only one I can think of that can be learned and practiced in a short enough time to get a job.


There are plenty of options out there for you...a popular school in the regional area where I live is Oklahoma State University-Institute of Technology. Ill list their programs for you. Most of these guys make pretty good money when they leave from what Ive been told and around 95% of them have jobs before they leave. I know one guy who goes there who is doing a fast track program in the Pipeline Corrosion department and will be done in one year, since he already had all of his gen ed's completed from his bachelors.

School of Energy
- Natural Gas Compression
- Pipeline Integrity/Corrosion
- Power Plant Technologies

School of Construction
- Construction Management
- Electrical Construction
- High Voltage Lineman
- Air Conditioning & Refrigeration

School of Nursing
- Registered Nurse(3 year)
- Orthotic & Prosthetic

School of Visual Communication
- 3D Modeling and Animation
- Graphic Design
- Photography

School of Culinary Arts
- Culinary Arts

They also have a school of automotive and diesel mechanics.

Not sure what all they offer online, but maybe all of that can help you out.

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