Welcome back to the channel I'm Suzanne with Arvabelle and in this video we're
going to discuss three different jobs that you can get without having a
college education. So number one be a plumber! Not really. I've seen a lot of
these videos out there but I wanted to do this one a little bit differently so
instead of just listing off a bunch of different jobs I'm actually going to go
more in depth on them. We will talk about how much you can actually make with
these jobs, how much it costs to get started because a lot of this isn't free
you do still have to have some sort of certifications or training. For all three
of these careers you can get a job with an employer so we'll take a look at some
actual job listings that I found. But for people who are more interested in
working for themselves we will also kind of discuss how you
could turn these into a scalable business and then I'll also give some
examples of people who have actually successfully done that. Remember to
subscribe to the channel and we will get started
number one is digital media and digital marketing jobs. So jobs in this area are
going to be content creation so like creating blog posts or videos or social
media content or if you're more on the marketing side it may be actually
managing those social media accounts or managing a website or managing an email
campaign or creating click funnels or something of that nature. Digital media
and digital marketing can encompass a number of different things but the
average salary is going to be around $55,000 a year. A lot
of people with digital media and digital marketing it's advertised as like you
can start for free absolutely no money. Well yes and no maybe if you're running
ads yeah you don't really need anything to get started but if you're more on the
content creation side you will need to have some different materials. So let's
break down some of these costs some of these things may be covered by an
employer but obviously if you're working for yourself you won't have anyone
covering these costs for you so a full year subscription of all of the Adobe
Creative Cloud products is going to run you around $390 a year. You would likely also want to set up your own website so a
domain name as well as domain hosting can run you
anywhere between $100-$300 really just depending on
what type of package you get. If it makes you feel better to have some sort of
degree you can get an associate's degree and graphic design for about like
$6,000 maybe $6,000 or $7,000 and that may depend on
your state. But if you want like a full marketing degree go for it but you
absolutely do not need one and you can find everything that you really need to
learn on YouTube and just different sources online. If you have good work and
you have proven results of growing an audience or of generating traffic
literally no one cares whether or not you have a college degree. So we are
going to look at a listing that I found for a social media marketing manager and
this is an actual listing that I found on indeed I chopped the top part off of
these but oops. So while I'm pulling this up remember to subscribe to the channel.
And you can pause the video if you want to read the full thing I'm not going to
read the full thing to you but what I want to point out with this one
specifically is that nowhere in here does it say anything about what type of
education you need it doesn't say anything about years of experience it
does say like social media marketing experience but honestly you could be
like 18 and have social media marketing experience with these types of jobs it
really it does not matter if you have a degree or not as long as you can get
results an idea to make this job into a scalable business would be to actually
create your own agency so most likely how the structure of this would look is
you would start off by yourself and build your client base then as you get
more clients than you can handle you could hire out people to help you with
the work. Eventually as an agency you could end up hiring out all of your work
or if you do still want to stay involved you could go the route of only putting
your attention towards the higher priority tasks like maintaining client
relations and sitting down with your clients especially if they are very like
high paying clients sitting down with them and making sure that you
what they need from your agency and making sure that that message is
accurately relayed to your team. If you do decide to create your own agency or
even just to like freelance on your own that will incur some additional cost if
you just do it like by yourself in Texas at least filing LLC papers and like a
doing business as paper is going to run you around like $350
if you hire a lawyer to help you with it it's going to be more like
$450 or $550 dollars. But before you totally like
discount paying that extra it is difficult to find the information to do
it yourself and if you are dealing with employees or subcontractors you want to
make sure that you do hire a lawyer and a CPA to make sure that you are setting
up the structure of your business right. So if you're thinking of starting an
agency be sure that you look into all of that stuff. An example of someone who's
in the digital media and marketing space would be Apple Crider. So in addition to
having his own podcast he actually runs his own agency where he manages like
Instagram accounts and things like that for other youtubers and just other
people who need it. Number two is to be a cosmetologist.
Usually being a hairdresser you are going to be working on commission but it
really just depends on where you're working and truthfully I don't know a
lot about this so when you are done with this video be sure that you go and watch
the last video where I interviewed my friend Nicole she talks about her
process of getting licensed as a hairdresser when she was 18, sort of her
experience being in the industry for 4 years, and how she got her education
and her license without going to college. With this job you could expect to make
anywhere between $20,000 and $50,000 a year or
more plus tips and I know that's not very helpful to have such a large range
as like a salary average but since it is a physically based business where people
physically have to walk through the door it is totally dependent on where you're
actually located. So someone in West LA is going to be able to charge more
because there's more people more traffic more demand than someone in like
random rural town in Oklahoma. To get started for your education and your
license and your supplies it can cost anywhere between $1,000-$20,000
or more. Again that is a super large range and if
you're wondering why do go and watch that interview that I did with Nicole
because she did a great job of covering that and kind of talks through the
different options that you have and the price points. But you don't have to get
an expensive education. Okay so I'm gonna pull up the most like in-depth job
description that I could find for a hairdresser or hairstylist and I'm gonna
have to break this into like two images so if you want to read the whole thing
again just pause the video so I'm not gonna read through all of this but I do
mainly want to focus on this first part where it has the different levels I
guess. And Nicole does talk about this in the interview but basically you have to
go through different steps like you aren't going to start out just on the
floor cutting hair you do usually have to start out as an apprentice of some
sort. So how would you make this into a scalable business? Well you could start
your own salon, you could start a chain of salons, or you could sell your own
products or you could do a combination of all three. An example of someone who
has done this is Alex Pardoe who was featured on CNBC's millennial money. Now
his spending was a little bit out of control but really what I thought was
the interesting part of that video was that he was able to use social media to
basically like explode his career into this business that makes almost
$300,000 a year. Is that the norm?
Probably not but like if you want to do that you might as well try. So I debated
what to put as the last job but I was like oh this one's fun so number three
is to be a personal trainer. If you're into fitness anyways this is perfect and
the range is about the same as cosmetologist it's anywhere from like
$20,000 or $30,000 a year to $60,000 a year. It's
going to cost anywhere from around $500 to $2,000 or maybe a little bit more to
get all of the certifications that you need and it's also going to depend on
what state you're in as well as if you're getting any sort of special
to certifications. So this is just a listing from a 24-hour Fitness than I
found and again if you want to read it you can pause it but really what I want
to draw attention to is to the certifications and educational
requirements part it doesn't say anything about a college degree. You know
you do have to get like CPR certified and all of that but that's expected.
What's important though is this last list of training certifications. If you
know that you want to work for a certain place make sure that you are absolutely
certain that your certification is going to allow you to be able to work at the
place that you want to. How you could scale being a personal trainer would be -
I mean you could do something like open up your own gym or run a Pilates class
or a yoga class or whatever you like doing but that's obviously going to cost
a lot more. You could also just start working with your own private clients
and you could start selling products like yoga mats or water bottles really
whatever you can think of. So the first business that came to mind when I
thought of personal training as one of these was Blogilates so the genius of
Blogilates is like she turned it into this massive massive business where she
sells her own products she has like meal plans and an app and different calendar
things. Like she has everything and on top of that she also makes money off of
YouTube videos. So she's just she's a marketing genius and I love it. But
that's just a really fun idea and it's all based off of Pilates. You can take
these careers in pretty much any direction that you want and like Nicole
said in the last video there isn't any like one path to success
and college is not like the be-all end-all of that. Whatever you have a
passion for there are ways to monetize it you just have to have a plan and put
in the work. So hopefully this video was a little bit different than the
other ones out there if you did like this type of video remember to subscribe
to the channel and to hit that like button thank you guys for watching and
I'll see you next time.