5 Jobs Nobody Wants That Pay Over Six Figures

These are five jobs nobody wants that pay over $100,000, and by the end of this video, I promise at least one of these is going to be a legit fit for you, even if your gut is already saying no chance. And honestly, it might be several of them. Some of these are dirty, some of these are dangerous, and at least one is so strange that you'll think that I made it up, but I didn't. And every single one pays over $100,000 a year without a college degree and without years of experience. And most of them will pay you while they train you, and you could realistically start most of these right away. And this is coming from someone who spent the last decade studying career paths after getting burned by the college system myself. I went $300,000 in student loan debt for a doctorate that I barely used. That's right, I paid $300,000 for a piece of paper that got me into a pharmacy career where I was constantly burned out and hated it. So I built the channel that I wish I'd had at 18, and since then, we've helped people land careers that they actually want, with over a thousand verified testimonials to back it up. So I know what I'm talking about when I break these down. Now, here's the pattern that nobody teaches you. The smart ones don't chase the jobs that everybody loves. They chase the jobs that everyone avoids. Because the second that normal people say no thanks, the pay starts climbing. For instance, one town went 15 years without one of these positions, and they finally got someone to work for $428,000 a year, a free house, and a free car to fill that seat. So that's not charity, that's leverage. The employer isn't interviewing you anymore, you're interviewing them. So today I'm walking you through which jobs these are, what they really pay, how people get in, and how some of the people already doing these jobs are stacking a second income right on top of them, without having to learn any extra skills. Now, everything in this video is sourced and on the screen with examples of real people. So if you appreciate me making this type of content, then let me know by gently choosing that like button, and let's jump into it right now. Okay, so the first one on the list is going to be elevator technician. So you rode an elevator this week, and you never once thought about who fixes it. And this job means dark shafts, live electricity, and 2am trouble calls. And I can already hear you, if this job really paid well, Shane, everybody would be doing it, except nobody even knows it exists. And the few who find it take one look at the shaft, the machine crew, and the crawl spaces, and they say, nope, out loud. So there's a trades podcast episode that's literally titled, Elevator Mechanics Are The Highest Paid In The Trades, and it has 154,000 views. A union rep on it says top guys make $200,000 a year on the check, and only 4 out of every 10 retiring mechanics are being replaced. So the pipeline is leaking from the top. So these are the people who install and fix the elevators. Every building over three stories depends on. Now, here's the receipt. The BLS meeting is $106,000 a year. That's not the top guy. That's the middle guy. So in order to get into this, you need a high school diploma, and the apprenticeship pays you, right? They literally pay you to learn how to do this trade, and you typically carry zero debt. But you might be thinking, well, a union trade like that would be so hard to get into, right? Well, my brother Zach has been in the trades for almost 30 years, and he now helps people find the right trade career for them. And by the way, this pick came straight from you guys. A top comment on our last jobs video called out elevator mechanic and wanted me to talk more about it. So you get in as an apprentice, and it's $100,000 plus once you're trained. So yeah, that's your answer. And yes, this is a really good career for the right type of person. Now, hold on to Zach because what he did after getting into the trades is the real story. See, he made lots of money in the trades. He's in his early 50s, and he already has nearly enough money to retire. But he started a second income by making a YouTube channel about the trades. And of course, he got help from me since I'm the YouTube boys. And using my system, his first video on his channel popped off, got over 800,000 views. And 29 days after posting that first video, he made $214 in a single day. That's a $78,000 a year run rate. So we went from zero to a full-time income in less than one month. And then he finished off his first year on YouTube, making $18,000 in a single month. And I'm going to be talking about exactly how he grew his channel and the exclusive live training that we are doing this week. Click the first link in the description in the pinned comment below to check it out. In this live training, we're going to be teaching you step by step, even if you're older, even if you have no experience, even if you're not tech savvy, even if you've never made a video in your life and you're not charismatic, because those are all things that are true for Zach, exactly how to start a YouTube channel as a complete beginner, and how to use this system, whether you have a YouTube channel or not, to pick the right niche, target the right people, and actually grow a channel that makes money, right? Because there's a lot of broke YouTubers out there, and I don't want you to be one. So this is a limited time event, and there are limited seats as well. So click that first link in the description in the pinned comment below to secure your seat. And also, if you're watching this in the future, still click that link below, because it'll automatically put you on a waitlist for whenever we do the next live event. All right, YouTube just got 10 times easier, and nobody is talking about it. You used to need an entire film crew, and it used to be a full-time job for you to just do any work at all on YouTube. But now, you can get work done, and it's as little as 15 to 30 minutes a day, and you can actually grow a full-time YouTube channel. And that's exactly what I'm going to be talking about at the live training that we're doing this week. Exactly how to start YouTube step-by-step for beginners. So click the link in the description in the pinned comment below to check that out, guys. I will be answering questions before, during, and after the live training. It's completely free. Plus, I'll be giving away an AI that is designed to help you pick your niche if you don't have one in the first place. Or if you already have a niche, it's going to help you make it 10 times better. So really looking forward to talking with you guys. This is stuff that we never talked about before. So click that link in the description and comment below. I look forward to seeing you there. Okay, so the next one is going to be a New York City sanitation worker. Now, I'm choosing New York City specifically, but of course, this can work in many different towns. So this is basically picking up garbage at 5 a.m. in January, and the city still can't fill the shifts. In one year, 94 of these workers made over $100,000 just in overtime alone. Not even their base pay, just overtime. So go ahead and say it. Come on, Shane, it's the trash guy. There's no way they make that much money. Well, CNBC made a whole video about this exact job, and that video has 938,000 views. Now hold that 44K in your head because it's about to look very different. And the internet's obsession with this job gets weirder. Theo Vaughn sat down with a New York garbage man for almost three hours, and that episode has 4.7 million views. Millions of people showed up for pure trash talk. No pun intended. Now, garbage is like dishes at a restaurant. When the dishwasher doesn't show up, the pile just keeps growing and the restaurant pays whatever it takes to make that pile go away. And New York is the biggest restaurant on the planet. So one man's garbage becomes another man's $200,000 to $300,000. And these are the people keeping the biggest city in America from drowning in its own trash. Now, the numbers come straight from the city's own page. You start at $47,752 a year. By year five and a half, you're at $95,316. And that's just the base pay. Remember, overtime can take you far over $100,000. And in the shortage years, it gets crazy. Fox News reported that some of these workers saw their pay approach $300,000 a year. That's $300,000 for picking up garbage. So every job on this list is starving for people. Every number was sourced on the screen. And if one fits you, go take it. But did you catch the pattern? Look at every job that we just covered. People are making YouTube videos about every single one of them. And they're getting paid to do it. And this is what I started off doing as well. I made the career channel that I wanted and I wish that I had when I was younger. And now I've taught hundreds of other people to do the exact same thing. My brother's just one example, but there's Nicole who made it to $80,000 in a single month teaching people how to get into a career called governance, risk, and compliance. Josh who made it to over $180,000 a month teaching people how to get into various different cybersecurity and IT related careers. Khadija made it to over $100,000 a month teaching people how to get into data analytics careers. Seth made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year teaching people how to get into digital marketing careers. Troy's made millions of dollars teaching people how to get into tech sales careers. Antoine's made millions of dollars teaching African-Americans how to get into various different careers. And the list goes on and on. And it's not just careers. Alex Shep made it to $15,000 a month teaching people how to graduate from college faster. Dr. Clifford Stume made it to multiple six figures a year teaching busy adults how to get the right online degrees really quickly. And Richard Walls made it to $12,000 in a single month teaching people how to get the right online MBAs as well as certifications to get raises or to get a better job. Felix makes millions a year teaching people how to invest. Nurse Jin who is in her 60s made it to $10,000 in just a few months teaching people how to age better. And she was able to quit her nursing job. And now she's traveling all over the United States in a camper van. And Nathan Rose made it to a full-time income with a tiny chess channel literally teaching adult learners how to play chess better. And they all did it without having to learn any new skills because they're just teaching what they already know. And if you want to know the exact system that I've developed that helped all of them go from zero to a full-time income then go ahead and click the first link in the description in the pinned comment below to attend our live training this week. Again, this is a limited time event. There are limited seats as well. So do not miss out on this live training. Click that first link in the description in the pinned comment below and I'll also be answering questions before, during, and after so you'll get to meet me. Oh, and I'll also be giving away an AI that helps you choose the right niche for you if you don't have one in the first place or if you already have a niche, it'll help you make your niche 10 times better. So yeah, don't miss out on it. And once you sign up, make sure you put it on your calendar. If you're seeing this in the future, still click that first link in the description in the pinned comment below because it'll automatically put you on a wait list for whenever we do the next live training. All right, this next job is hiding in plain sight and it's the golf ball diver. And I know this job sounds completely fake, but it isn't, right? There is zero visibility down there. You cannot see your own hand and you feel through the muck by touch and you share that water with snakes, snapping turtles, and in Florida, actual alligators. And the pay runs $100 an hour per pond. Now, I know what you're thinking. Shane, you made this one up. I didn't. One Florida diver made over $15 million in his career doing this. He literally made $15 million dodging alligators for golf balls. And 3.5 million people watched the YouTube video about that story. Now, there's a whole channel called Golf Roost where these guys film themselves wading into golf course ponds and pulling out thousands of golf balls. One video is called, We Found Thousands of Golf Balls in the Dried Up Pond and it sits at 3.4 million views. That is 3.4 million views of grown men collecting balls. And here's the smart part. They don't just film it. They sell every ball that they pull through their own online store. So the videos are the advertising and the pond pays them three times. Once to actually do the job, once to make YouTube videos about doing the job because they get AdSense from those YouTube videos, and then once selling the golf balls afterwards. So this job is basically bobbing for apples, except the apples are worth a dime each. The water is gravy and the gravy has alligators in it. And the grosser the water, the cleaner the money. So these are the people who dive in murky golf course ponds for lost balls that get cleaned and resold by the millions. So let's do the honest pay map. Most part-time divers pull $26,000 to $50,000 a year and top earners push $62,000. But keep in mind, this is part-time. And also there's a general rule that I talk about on this channel where any job that requires physical work, usually the pays are listed a bit lower than the reality of the situation. And this is for a bunch of different reasons. But one of them is that a lot of the cash probably gets paid to you in person. So they're not necessarily reporting how much they're making. But the full-time pros are a different animal. CBS followed a diver who nets $100,000 a year and he collects millions of balls a year at a dime a ball. So you can do the math on that. And hold that thought because there's a second paycheck hiding inside every job on this list that I'll show you in a few minutes. All right, next job is going to be a saturation diver. Now this job sounds a little bit like science fiction. They get sealed inside a steel chamber the size of a minivan for 28 days, breathing helium and doing construction shifts hundreds of feet below the ocean. And you might be thinking, well, Shay, nobody chooses that. And if they do, the pay can't be real. Well, it is real. A channel called The Weld Lab sat down with a real underwater welder and the video is called $1,500 a day welding underwater. And the number is right there in the title. And the video has over 260,000 views. So why is a welder making $1,500 a day? Well, Business Insider has the answer. They call this the deadliest job in the world. And their video on it has 1.7 million views. And these welders are about 40 times more likely to die on the job than the average American worker. And that is exactly why the pay looks stupid. You see, lobster costs $40 because of how hard it is to actually capture them and get the meat out of the shell. And this job is the same. They're not paying you for the welding. They're paying you for the difficulty. And these are the people building and repairing things hundreds of feet underwater. They live in that chamber between shifts. So they only decompress once. And ZipRecruiter has saturation diving at $123,000 a year on average. And the crazy part is the floor. Even the bottom 25% clears $101,000 a year. And the craziest thing is they usually don't work full time. They work on and off shifts. And they typically end up working about half the year. So day rates run $1,300 to $1,500 and up. And if you work more, you can make a heck of a lot more. Even over $200,000 a year. YouTube and building your personal brand just got 10 times easier. And nobody's talking about it. And the reason it got 10 times easier is because of AI. And specifically, Cloud AI. And that's what we're going to be talking about in this week's live training that we're doing. Click the link down the description in the pinned comment below. I will be there. I'll be answering questions before, during, and after. We'll also be giving you an AI that's been designed to help you pick your niche if you don't have one in the first place. Or if you already have one, it's going to help you make it 10 times better. So we worked very hard on this AI. People absolutely love it. We've literally gotten hundreds of comments from people that love it. So you do not want to miss out on it. And if you're watching this in the future for whatever reason, or it's already past the time of the live training, still click on that link. Because we will be having more live trainings in the future. And you will be the first person to know because it'll put you on a wait list for that. But with that being said, it's completely free. No reason not to attend. Click that link in the description in the pinned comment below. And I'll see you on the other side. All right. The next one is an air traffic controller. Now, this job might be one of the most stressful ones in America. And that's why it pays so well. So the FAA is 3,544 controllers short. Over 40% of their facilities are understaffed. And the government got so desperate that they're running recruitment ads targeting video gamers. I'm not kidding. The government's actual ad campaign is called, It's not a game. It's a career. So who knew that your Xbox and PlayStation hours were your resume all along? But Shane, don't you need a degree and a military background for that? No, you don't need a four-year degree. The FAA takes high school grads with three years of work experience. But the filter is brutal. Only about 2% of applicants ever make it. So this job is a line cook during a dinner rush that never ends. Except every ticket on the rail is 300 people in the air. And you cannot drop a plate. And you can actually hear that pressure. A channel called Vaas Aviation has 672,000 subscribers. And all they post is real controller tower audio. In one video, a student pilot loses his engine midair. And you hear him get talked back down. That video has 9.2 million views. According to ViewStats, the channel pulls an estimated $5,300 to $14,000 a month. And the entire product is just controllers doing their job. So these are the people watching a radar screen, keeping hundreds of planes from hitting each other, one instruction at a time. So what's the pay? Well, the BLS median is $144,000. And that's the highest verified number in this video. In the top 10%, clear $210,000. So the pay here isn't for the work. It's for you being able to handle the stress, right? It's for the weight. And if the weight sounds like too much for you, there's a lighter way into this world. One of our clients, for instance, Tim, runs a small aviation channel called Lift and Thrust, where he breaks down planes and airlines. And the whole channel only has about 10,000 subscribers, but his biggest video sits at 464,000 views. And the channel is pulling over 600,000 views a month. And according to ViewStats, numbers like that are worth an estimated $1,700 to $4,600 a month. And by the way, the estimated AdSense money is usually far lower than the reality of the situation. For instance, ViewStats usually estimates that my channel makes maybe $10,000 to $15,000 a month from AdSense, when in reality, last month, we made over $50,000 from AdSense. So it's likely that these estimates are very low. Plus, that's just AdSense. There's many other ways to make money from YouTube. For instance, AdSense is less than 5% of the total income that we make from this channel. But yeah, that's the kind of money sitting right next to these jobs. So there's a secret side of my business that most of you have no idea exists. And I actually have a coaching program on personal branding and growing on YouTube and making money on YouTube. This is good for complete beginners, maybe even people who just want to get a job by growing their personal brand, as well as business owners, all the way up to people who are very advanced on YouTube. And they get to work directly with myself and my team to help them reach their goals. Now, we are opening up three to five spots. And this is pretty rare. We usually don't have these open. We usually only limit them to a select amount of people as well. But we're opening up three to five spots. And you can check those down in the description and the pinned comment below. And in this program, you will get to work directly with myself and other people who are highly successful on YouTube. Everyone in our program has 100k plus subscriber plaques. Just as an example, Sean was able to go all the way from being stuck, not making very much money on his channel, to making over $500,000 in a single month. Now, that's an example of one of my more advanced students, but there are lots of examples of people starting out from scratch and they got to 5k a month or 10k a month, et cetera. So check that out down the description and the pinned comment below. And I look forward to working with you and see if we're a good fit to work together. And also check out this video right here to see exactly how I helped my brother go from zero to a full-time income in less than one month.