<p>For someone like me, who does not fancy scientific-type sciences like chemistry and maths but who is really good at humanities and social sciences?</p>
<p>Is there a job which pays a lot, and QUICKLY (ie soon after graduating, or the soonest possible), and which does not require sciences at all (ao don't say doctor lol)?</p>
<p>Eh?</p>
<p>Yes I'm in it for the money. That is frankly all I care about apart from my job being interesting. Money money money. It's all about the money, cash, the revenue. Dollar bills ya'll.</p>
<p>hahah yeah I was thinking about pursuing law, because it can pay a lot, and because its fascinating and I can really change things for the better (or worse).
However you have to wait more than ten years to even hope to get a high income (something like £100k a year)</p>
<p>If you want to earn money quickly, a sales job that offers commissions and bonuses can be a good choice. Of course, it depends on the company and the product you're selling. Some of the larger consulting firms also offer fairly well paying entry level jobs. Investment banking is a possibility but hard to break into. A business degree might be best for any of these.</p>
<p>Banking is pretty mathy. If you just want money go to a good school, get a good GPA, and get into a top law school. In the US most of my friends at columbia law are going to make about 120-150K first year, and then this climbs every year slightly. Ten years out, at the partner level, they will make between 250-600K.</p>
<p>I disagree. Althugh it may not be the Disney idealism that we'd all like to believe, many people work only for the pay. I don't think this automatically makes someone "shallow" or a bad person. </p>
<p>And what the hell is a "truly excellent" company anyway? If by "truly excellent" you mean a job that pays well, then, again, I disagree. For example, Ive heard that the overriding motivator for Bill Gates in his rise to power was the prospect of being rich and powerful. Despite his "shallowness", look at his massive success. </p>
<p>Not that I know Bill Gates personally - how many of us know billionaires personally, anyway - but I've done a few extensive research projects on him and a significant number of published sources say that he is truly that self-centered.</p>
<p>"If money is all that you care about, you're too shallow to be hired by a truly excellent company."</p>
<p>Look at all the corporations running america. they're rich and powerful, and so are their leaders. They didn't become rich by being moral, not thinking about money and being saintly, in fact I think you'll find quite the opposite is true.
No one becomes rich by being a saint, I'm afraid, and no one becomes rich by accident (except for lotteries and rich uncles dying, but thats a different story).</p>
<p>It's a cuthroat world out there, and with the world's current population rise and resources getting more finite by the minute, it's only going to get worse.
With the world where it is today I have no choice but to adopt this seemingly shallow attitude. I don't like it, but hey, I guess the weight of the world has finally crushed my spirits.</p>
<p>really? oh yeah has something to do with oil drilling, hasn't it? i heard surveyor for petrol drilling expeditions pays quite a lot.</p>
<p>unfortunately it is scientific and i don't want to participate in the exploitation of earth's resources, especially oil since it's so polluting and i think it's retarded that we still depend on oil for energy.</p>
<p>whats even more gay is petrol companies actually buying patents for new energy inventions and covering up the fact that we can now totally replace petrol as a source of energy.</p>
<p>still, the rich old men keep us burning that oil like happy little ignorant fools, and driving us to our doom.</p>
<p>you mean like doctors? they earn sh**loads as soon as they step outta college. guess it has something to do with all that saving lives crap. ljk
lawyering seems like a pretty good venture for me to get into but it takes long for someone to really take off in that line of business.</p>
<p>meh maybe ill just be a stock guy, invest all my money, become rich and then lose it all, and the mafia guys will come and break my legs. oh wait, thats the horse tracks.</p>
<p>I like to refer to this quote is cases like this :). "Make the money, don't let the money make you."</p>
<p>Anyways, most of the higher paying jobs require some type of initial time investment, may it be an MBA or 10 years of med school/slave labor through internships. If your not making that kind of an investment, don't go looking for a free lunch. There's no such thing. If there was one, everyone would be doing it.</p>
<p>or you could drive buses in iraq, paid by oil companies, and make $150 k a year and have no training whatsoever. well, there's stock watering, manipulation of stocks, burglary(50k in 10 minutes doesn't sound too bad does it?(thank you discovery channel)), con man, hacker, super evil genius, human guinea pig, insurance fraud(you can thank the media for that list). oh ya you could go to NYU and try and hook up with the olsen twins ;) oh you want REAL jobs... haha. well then you could become a professor and make a living through research grants and stuff(archeology, historical studies, etc.). you do have to realize that society, most of the time, rewards hard work and effort and most high-paying jobs require some time before they become profitable(unless you're an engineer of course).</p>
<p>Never look at starting salaries when assessing future earnings. Engineering looks high paying until you realize salaries top out pretty quickly.</p>
<p>I's say investment banking is the quickest road to riches I've seen. You can make a lot as a consultant or could get lucky in any key role at a good start up. Need to go to a top college for all though.</p>