<p>Hey guys i am looking for a career that i will know i will be financially supported for the rest of my life. I really like computers but it does not seem like working with computers pays a lot. I am looking for a career that will pay Really good like 70-80K a year at least. I like many many things but my main thing i like is computers/photography/design/industrial design etc...I am also looking to go to a trade school for this. I rather pay the extra cash so i can get straight into what i want to learn.
Does anyone have any advice? I am really confused and i need to get this straight soon. Time is flying by and i am nearly 20 years old.
Any help would be very much appreciated. I just want a job that pays great and if it's in the computer world that is even better! Or any other career suggestions?
Thanks a bunch guys.
Jeff</p>
<p>Working with computers certainly pays within your desired range.</p>
<p>The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the average yearly salary of computer programmers in 2008 to be $73,470. Here are average 2008 salaries in the industries that hire the most computer programmers:</p>
<p>Computer systems design and related services: $75,300
Software publishers: $83,340
Management of companies and enterprises: $72,720
Employment Services: $74,100
Insurance Carriers: $71,360</p>
<p>According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average yearly salary of computer systems analysts was $78,830 in 2008. Here are average 2008 salaries in the industries that hire the most systems analysts:</p>
<p>Computer systems design and related services: $83,910
Management of companies and enterprises: $77,110
Insurance carriers: $75,650
Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers: $91,910
Data processing, hosting, and related services: $78,920</p>
<p>A degree in mathematics can usually be used in many different career fields.</p>
<p>Become a professional basketball player.</p>
<p>or marry well.</p>
<p>Seriously, though, I"m 55. When I was in high school, no one thought of going into, say medicine or investment banking to earn high steady incomes. For that you needed to be an airline pilot for PanAm. That equation is now completely inverted. I can’t think of any profession that as a result of demographic, technology and consumer changes has not undergone several cycles of surplus/shortage high pay/low/pay/no pay over the past several decades. Mortician maybe. Most high earners my age are working in industries that didn’t even exist 40 years ago.</p>
<p>I think most of the computer related jobs listed above would require a 4 year college degree. </p>
<p>Plumbers make good money and they can’t be outsourced.</p>
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<p>Become a tenured computer science professor.</p>
<p>Granted, the process of winning tenure is difficult (although that difficulty is substantially reduced if you’re willing to work at a 4th tier no-name school). But once you have tenure, you have a guaranteed job for life, unless something truly catastrophic happens (i.e. the school goes bankrupt or you’re caught stealing from the school or plagiarizing research, etc.)</p>
<p>HVAC Jobs and Prostitution.</p>
<p>Check out the “Did you Know” video</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Did You Know?](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY)</p>
<p>It gives you something to think about. Some of the high paying jobs fives year from now have not even been developed or invented yet.</p>