To Earn $80,000 A Year, You Can:
Spend four years earning a bachelor's degree to become a mechanical engineer. Sure, it sounds like a cool job, but keep in mind that it's only train engineers who get to wear that awesome little hat. You? You're designing elevators and stuff. No hat issued whatsoever.
Andrzej Sza?apata/iStock/Getty Images"If you want the hat so much, why don't you buy one?"
"IT'S NOT THE SAME!!"
Or You Can:
Screw designing elevators; grab a wrench and start spinning it about until people stop plummeting. Forbes once ranked "elevator mechanic" as the best-paying blue-collar job. The average pay is slightly less than that of mechanical engineers, but the top 10 percent of elevator mechanics nearly break $100,000 a year.
Kritchanut/iStock/Getty Images "It's an upwardly mobile career. Literally."
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