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Debating about going to college? Well, before you make a decision checkout my list of the top 10 highest paying jobs that anyone can do without a college degree or even a high school diploma. Although consider at least getting your GED as it is helpful but not a necessity.
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It's been over one year since I quit my first full-time job after college, and honestly
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it's probably been the best decision that I've ever made. Now, college and sometimes even high school isn't for everyone, and that's why today's
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video is about the top 10 highest paying jobs you can do without a college degree or even
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a high school diploma. Now, the best part is I'll be breaking them down into two categories
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The first will be the top five jobs you can do if you want to be self-employed, and that
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means you'll be able to earn a comfortable living working from home or traveling around
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the world while being your own boss. It's truly all up to how you want your lifestyle to be
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Now, I also know that working for yourself isn't for everyone, and that's totally fine
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but that's also why I've dedicated the other five jobs to people who actually enjoy working
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a nine-to-five or just want to have a more scheduled lifestyle. Regardless of the path that you choose, though, these top 10 jobs are definitely something
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you should consider if you plan on not pursuing college or even high school
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Now, if you're still watching, I would think it's safe to say you're either reconsidering
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staying in school or debating on even going. I was once in your shoes too, believe it or not
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Coming from a household where both my parents were teachers, school education was actually
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really, really, really important. Like, it was the number one thing. And I was told countless times that in order for me to make money and get a good job, I
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had to graduate college and I had to get good grades. Otherwise, I'd be failing them as well as the rest of my family
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Not seeing any other options, I took their advice and I went to school
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And somehow I managed to graduate with an undergrad in marketing, but I can't tell you
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how many run-ins I've had from seriously wanting to drop out and almost failing out
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I was more focused on starting my own business and making money than my schoolwork and my
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grades reflected that. Now, it's currently been two years since I graduated college and let me be clear, I have
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not used my degree at all. Like, I know that sounds crazy, but I really don't have any use for it
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The pandemic, you know, of 2020 hit the year that I graduated and somehow I was still able
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to land a full-time job as a marketing manager. But a short while after, I think about a year of working there, I decided to quit to pursue
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my dream of, you know, being self-employed. Now, despite quitting my job, I was able to build my own business, my own LLC in college
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and managed to save and invest my way to a net worth of around $600,000 at only 24 years old
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That's right. I'm only 24. And when I started the business, I think I was 20. I believe I was a sophomore in college at 20 years old when I first started working on
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my business. And for reference, this is my Fidelity account during what we're currently in a recession
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and I have a little over 300,000 in there. Granted, my portfolio is down 27%, which is terrible, but that's, you know, for a whole
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other video. I'd like to think that I'm currently on the right track. Since I've proved it's possible, that means you guys can too
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So here are the top 10 highest paying jobs that don't require a college degree or a high
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school diploma. Fortunately, going these alternative routes allows you to avoid the student loan trap
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that every single person and all of my friends are falling for
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Over 40 million Americans currently share $1.75 trillion in student loan debt
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And this year, the average student loan debt for federal loans is over $37,000
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The scary part is it usually takes 20 years for the average graduate to pay off their loans
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What's worse is some PhDs and master's degrees take over 45 years to pay off all the student
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loans that you accumulate while in school. I even did a quick Google search and found out that medical school graduate salaries
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are no longer enough to make their student loan payments. Times are changing right now
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And honestly, not going to school is totally okay in 2022. And you're probably even better off without getting a degree and going to school if you're
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considering going into a major that's oversaturated like communications or liberal arts that
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you're going to spend $100,000 on. Like, please don't do that. Seriously, think about like alternatives like the ones I'm going to say instead of taking
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on that debt and really, you know, locking yourself in for paying off debt over the next
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20 years. Now, if you're like me and you want to be self-employed, expect your business at first
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to take a few years to get off the ground. That's usually how it is. You might even have to work a few part-time jobs while trying to scale your business
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That's also what I did. Now to get right into it. The first job in no particular order is a sponsorship broker
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And this is a fairly new career that's developed from the growth of social media and influencers
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The best part about becoming like a sponsorship broker is the ability to start this business
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yourself or work for a company. It's up to you what you choose. But typically sponsoring social media influencers is like this like untapped market that hasn't
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been oversaturated yet. And I can tell you firsthand that there is a lot of money being spent within the niche
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of influencing and social media influencing. In 2021 alone approximately 3.7 billion dollars were projected to be spent on influencer marketing
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in the United States. And I also can vouch that there is a lot of money to be made because that's a YouTuber myself
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I do business with a lot of them and I see how much money they make off my sponsorship
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deals with other brands. Now sponsorship brokers are typically like the people within a niche that bring advertisements
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to influencers. Basically middleman the transactions and keep a piece of the advertisement budget and usually
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have on retainer influencers and brands and then form the relationship between the two
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of them. Now you can also think of them as the new generation of recruiters
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So instead of connecting like employees to employers now, you have a sponsorship broker
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who's connecting advertisers to audiences second. We have social media influencers instead of brokering a deal to an influencer
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You actually are the influencer and it still sounds weird to say it but you know being
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an influencer is actually a career nowadays. Times are definitely changing where big brands no longer just advertise on TV and radio stations
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They're choosing to pay influencers and content creators because they know they can specifically
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target a niche audience TV has become the old way to advertise now, it's specifically
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social media even social media platforms are beginning to pay people things like tiktok
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Facebook Snapchat YouTube and now even Instagram will pay you quite a bit of money just to
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create content like you don't even have to be an influencer as long as you have a few
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videos go viral you can make quite a bit of money been making tiktok solely for fun
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and tiktok has paid me over $800 in just a few months of creating viral content and I'm
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not even like a celebrity or an influencer now tiktok is also known to pay the worst
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So if you check out some of these other youtubers and see how much money they've made last year
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alone only off AdSense, which is YouTube revenue, then it's pretty incredible and I'm not even
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including sponsorships that they get affiliate links or even their own businesses that they
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start just you know, the surface of what you can make what these influencers do is
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they create an audience and that's key to growing a business pretty quickly like no
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matter how taboo your audience is or whatever niche you're in you can actually create a
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business from it. Once you've obtained a fairly large size audience, you can then start selling merchandise coffee
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car parts 3d printers reptiles. I mean, honestly the ideas are endless third
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We have video editors now since social media is the next big thing content creators and
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influencers need people to edit their videos whether it's tiktok Facebook YouTube Instagram
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reels it doesn't matter video editors are becoming highly profitable and are becoming
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an in-demand business, especially if you're talented now, you see some content creators
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are just horrible at editing and others eventually get too big or just don't have the time to
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create content as well as edit their videos. So at some point hiring a video editor comes across every influencers mind and even content
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creators mind and the best part is because it's a difficult talent to learn the pay is
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really good skilled and experienced YouTube editors can actually earn between 50 to $100
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per hour for professional video editing. That's between a hundred K and 200 K a year
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And if you're just starting out, you can easily charge 20 to 30 bucks an hour fourth
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We have freelance writers. Now this goes hand in hand with jobs
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I've mentioned earlier in this whole social media phase that's becoming really popular
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but at some point content creators get too big like we said before and they need to hire
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help and after they outsource their video editing the next person they usually hire
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is their freelance writer to make their video scripts. Now believe it or not 95% of the words that I'm currently saying is scripted every single
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word that you're currently hearing has been thoroughly thought of before recording this video. Now
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I've also done business with freelance writers too. And I know that they usually charge around $60 an hour and I've even seen script writing
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specifically for making YouTube videos charge 6 cents a word now a typical YouTube script
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like the video you're watching is close to 2,000 words. They're able to charge around $1,200 each script
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They write and it's really a great business to get into fifth. We have personal training. Now
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This is a great career to get involved in because of how big you can scale it gone are
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the times where you need to actually train somebody one-on-one physically in person now
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that we have the internet being able to manage clients online and all around the world will
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no longer limit your potential. Now. I have friends of mine that have actually dropped out of college and are making six-figure
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incomes doing online coaching one comes to mind and when he first started personal training
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he reached a cap of how much money he could make because he trained in person and obviously
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there are so many hours in the day now once he went online, which was partially due to
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the pandemic. He was actually able to double his income within a year
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So the pandemic was actually a positive for his business. The cool thing is to is once you have a credible name you can easily charge a thousand dollars
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to $2,000 per client for six months. And this is why personal training is also my number six choice because not only can
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you do this all as a self-employed person can also work for other people most club gyms
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offer in-house personal trainers and they usually require some sort of license, but
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you don't need a high school diploma to get it specifically what comes to mind our la
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fitness personal trainers, which are making about $30 an hour and then lifetime which
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is an even more resort exclusive gym their personal trainers can easily make $60,000
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a year a job like this requires you to really just look the part. So if you do then there's a lot of money that can be made seventh is anything within sales
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You're good at selling things you can make a lot of money most sales jobs work on commission
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with a base salary. This is usually within you know, selling insurance selling real estate selling cars
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This is to incentivize you to sell whatever product or service that your job is currently
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pushing and it's also seen a lot like I said within car dealerships. The best part is you don't need a diploma or a degree to sell cars
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The only thing is when you first start off you'll start at the bottom of the totem pole
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but if you're actually talented you can quickly move up positions. So you might first start off at a Honda dealership and then you might end up at a Lamborghini
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dealership within just a couple of years. So clearly the commissions are higher for bigger ticket sales and the average car salesman
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makes about $60,000 a year, but a good one can easily make over a hundred K a year eighth
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We have truck drivers and construction workers in order to drive a truck or heavy machinery
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You need something called a CDL some states a diploma is necessary and others it isn't
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so you have to do your homework and figure out which state you live in and what the requirements are
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Typically a truck drivers compensation is highly variable due to multiple factors specifically
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the more experience difficult loads maintaining a clean driving record willingness to endure
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a risk and traveling to remote locations are just some of the traits for drivers who
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actually earn a higher than average salary and typically truck drivers can easily earn
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well over 60 K a year depending on how skilled they are ninth. We have real estate agents and in order for you to become a real estate agent, you need
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your real estate license. It's usually about 350 to $700. This is another job that may or may not require a high school diploma depending on your state
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So make sure to go check it out. But if you can't tell this is also another sales job similar to a car salesman
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The only difference is instead of earning a 3% commission on selling a $40,000 Honda
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Civic you can actually earn 3% on a half million dollar penthouse
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So there's a big commission incentive there and typically the research I found says a
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full-time real estate agent can easily earn over six figures depending on how talented
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you are in sales. Now lastly the 10th job is a career in the food industry specifically waitering waitressing
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bartending or managing a restaurant. The reason this is in my top 10 is because of how much money you can make on tips believe
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it or not. I used to bartend and honestly after seeing how much money you can make in tips from just
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the night is incredible. It's mind-blowing if you've never worked in the tip industry
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It's at the point where I would never if I had to I would never go back to a job that
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didn't offer tips and similar to a sales job. The more experience you have making drinks, which you might actually need some sort of
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mixology license, but I've had bartending job where they don't require it and they don't
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ask for it, but I'm sure there's a little more to that really it just boils down to
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experience the more experience you have making drinks and running food and speaking with
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people the further you can go within this career. Now it takes work obviously at hard work and making connections
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That's really the big thing. But if you can actually land yourself a gig working in a high-end restaurant, you can
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easily earn yourself $80,000 to $150,000 a year with tips. So guys, that's it for today's video
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If you've stayed this long, I do appreciate you watching and if you've had any experience
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in these fields I mentioned today, then tell me about it down in the comments. Otherwise, happy Monday and I'll see you next week. Peace
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