re: Easiest high paying job?

Pharma Sales or Insurance Agent

Not “highest paying” but for ease of becoming one for the salary you get, Licensed customs broker.

All you need to be is 21 years old, US citizen , and pass the test.

Answer 60 correct out of 80 multiple choice questions in 4 hours…open book…..$250 to take the test.

Louisiana $52k, nation wide $75k, top get in the $90s. (Not management, just working as a stamp maker)


On the test you have to do manual lookups, but in actual operations the computer does all the work and you just certify it’s correct.

Essentially you calculate the customs fee for cargo so that when it gets to customs, the work is already done and it gets through customs faster because a government employee doesn’t have to figure out how much you owe, it’s already done and they just affirm it’s correct and sign off on it.

If you look at the pass rate of the test, it’s only like 20% pass…but I attribute that to the type of people who take test (blueish collar types, who didn’t necessarily go to college)
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Customs brokers are private individuals, partnerships, associations or corporations licensed, regulated and empowered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assist importers and exporters in meeting Federal requirements governing imports and exports. Brokers submit necessary information and appropriate payments to CBP on behalf of their clients and charge them a fee for this service.

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My wife moved to the US when she was 19, unable to speak English. A little over 10 years later, became a citizen, passed the test on her first try, makes $80k.

Teacher?

Don’t they make $350/day to babysit

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High School Coach

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Definitely not.

1. High school football coaches work long hours. During the season it is a 7 day a week job in which you are never really finished. Outside of that, you have classes to teach, offseason camps and workouts to handle, equipment to order, etc.

2. There's a lot of hands-on work to do. We all know Nick Saban works his arse off, but when's the last time he cut a field, lined it off, carried a water cooler, drove a bus, taped an ankle, painted a locker room, etc.?

3. High school football coaches may not face nationwide criticism from the likes of Paul Finebaum and Colin Cowherd, but there's plenty of coaches that face local scrutiny and do it without millions in the bank to fall back on. If you were on the hotseat with a must-win game coming up, would you rather worry about Finebaum's bards or how you're going to pay the mortgage and feed the kids if you lose and get fired? And if you do get fired, it's at least going to be in the local media. Unless they did something illegal, how often do you see insurance agents or someone else with a normal job have their termination publicized?

4. You have to deal closely with parents who often think their kids are better than they really are.

5. Coaching is a zero-sum profession. Everyone can't be successful even if they're all very good at what they do. If you have ten good lawyers in a city, they can all be successful as long as there's enough business to go around. But if you have ten good coaches in a league, somebody is going to have a losing record even if the coaching is equal across the board.

Coaching (when your livelihood depends on it) is not an easy job by any means.

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I am sitting on a commercial flight and was thinking about how much downtime a commercial airline pilot has between flights.

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Those regional guys fly the same leg back and forth all day.

TigerDroppings Admin

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Wholesaler sales

There may be long hours.
But the retail level does all of the difficult work and carries all of the risk.

It is practically a racket.

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I was going to say B2B sales roles in general. Those folks work hard to get clients, but once their in, it’s pretty great. Procurement processes being what they are, many companies typically don’t like jumping vendors too often.

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he only thing that they have to do is go to a trade show every once in a while

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I think the most I have ever hurt was after 8 hours on my feet at National Restaurant Shows I worked in Chicago (I was quality director for Groen cooking and process equipment division of Dover Industries). And we had one of the best carpet and padding set ups on the show floor.

One year, Dr. J was at the booth next to ours, shaking hands. At the end of one of the show days, I was standing in my spot on one corner of our booth and Dr. J (Julius Erving) was on a stool across the isle from me. He happened to look my way and then pointed at his feet and said, "They never hurt this much after any game I ever played." He was a nice guy and I invited him over to stand on our thick carpet. He brought his stool with him and we spent about 15 minutes talking about what a drag trade shows were.

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Wide body Captains in the big leagues have been in the high six figures for years, a few cracking a mil.

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Agree