WEBVTT 00:00.531 --> 00:08.257 [SPEAKER_00]: A CNN study just came out and revealed that the U.S. economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in a month of July. 00:09.998 --> 00:13.680 [SPEAKER_00]: The unemployment rate dropped to 4.1 percent from 4.25 percent in July of 2026. 00:22.601 --> 00:44.480 [SPEAKER_00]: When I read this particular article two days later, I come across this Instagram post that says, here are 10 jobs, 10 jobs that pay $80,000 or more a year with no degree required. 00:46.332 --> 00:56.834 [SPEAKER_00]: And immediately it reminded me like, hey man, I remember dropping out of school and having no job and my very first job was $23,000 a year plus commission as a bill collector. 00:58.074 --> 01:13.497 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what it feels like to go through 15, 20 years of with no degree, no education, building a multiple seven figure business and building a network of seven figures because up until three years ago, I did not have a degree. 01:16.228 --> 01:19.731 [SPEAKER_00]: So when this list came out, I was like, yo, I gotta share this list. 01:20.532 --> 01:29.440 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I gotta make sure that my people understand because I understand that nearly 50% of you all with their my community do not even have a bachelor's or an associate's degree. 01:31.101 --> 01:39.269 [SPEAKER_00]: But being back in school, I've learned that I have to steward my audience well and I gotta do the proper research to make sure that whatever I put my name on, 01:40.578 --> 01:41.659 [SPEAKER_00]: I can stay in and behind. 01:42.219 --> 01:48.183 [SPEAKER_00]: So as I'm doing this research, I realize that this list left something completely out. 01:51.486 --> 01:58.451 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you felt like a four year degree is the only ticket to real money today's episode is gonna be for you. 01:58.891 --> 02:08.338 [SPEAKER_00]: If you have a child who was looking at going to a four year university and you're nervous because they have to sign and take out student loans just to get a quote on quote degree. 02:10.177 --> 02:11.258 [SPEAKER_00]: today's episode is for you. 02:12.238 --> 02:18.301 [SPEAKER_00]: You could be in a job making $50,000 a year and instead of Anthony, I want to go over and make $80,000. 02:19.182 --> 02:22.163 [SPEAKER_00]: This episode is for you. 02:25.745 --> 02:34.350 [SPEAKER_00]: But, but, but, but there's always something. 02:36.171 --> 02:38.312 [SPEAKER_00]: My mom always said if it sounds too good to be true, 02:41.416 --> 02:48.001 [SPEAKER_00]: And while this list I'm going to give it today is the real deal, we have to ask ourselves one question. 02:49.622 --> 02:54.646 [SPEAKER_00]: And when we ask ourselves this one question, it could shatter the list for a lot of you all. 02:55.807 --> 03:05.955 [SPEAKER_00]: And that one question is, is this the median pay, or is this the actual average salary that everyone gets? 03:13.850 --> 03:15.291 [SPEAKER_00]: So this list, I'm going to give it to you today. 03:15.311 --> 03:16.512 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you can make 80,000. 03:16.552 --> 03:19.434 [SPEAKER_00]: You can even make more than 80,000, but the question you've got to ask. 03:19.955 --> 03:26.560 [SPEAKER_00]: Anytime you see a list that comes out, okay, wait, is that the starting salary or is that the median salary? 03:26.800 --> 03:30.723 [SPEAKER_00]: And I really want to make sure to y'all understand what median means compared to starter. 03:31.143 --> 03:39.490 [SPEAKER_00]: starter means, okay, if you just graduated from a trade school, from degrees, from a college, a four-year university, that means, 03:44.909 --> 03:55.216 [SPEAKER_00]: Media is simply means that if the salary is 50,000, that's the median salary in this particular field, 50% of them are making less than 50,000. 03:55.296 --> 03:57.277 [SPEAKER_00]: Meaning they can be making 35, 40,000. 03:58.038 --> 04:00.179 [SPEAKER_00]: The other 50% are making more than 50,000. 04:00.199 --> 04:03.401 [SPEAKER_00]: They can be making 75,000, maybe even 100,000. 04:05.142 --> 04:12.167 [SPEAKER_00]: So for the next 25 minutes, I'm gonna be breaking down all five jobs with real numbers and real requirements. 04:13.247 --> 04:23.477 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, right, in the middle of this episode, I'm going to show you, all right, I'm going to show you some things that changes how you look at every job on this particular list and in it list that you may come across. 04:24.077 --> 04:35.348 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the end, I'll hand you five questions you could run towards this list for yourself or for any career claim as you're doing your research to progress in your particular career field. 04:36.868 --> 04:47.594 [SPEAKER_00]: but before I show you, number one, I need to tell you what a quote unquote no degree required situation costs me and it's costing some of you all because the truth of the fact is, I lived it. 04:48.914 --> 04:50.435 [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't always been an entrepreneur. 04:50.875 --> 04:52.976 [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't always had a multiple seven figure business. 04:53.737 --> 05:02.581 [SPEAKER_00]: I had the bus my rear end to get there and watch how fast this list is going to fall apart when you ask that question. 05:02.882 --> 05:05.463 [SPEAKER_00]: Is this the median or is this the starting salary? 05:06.923 --> 05:20.031 [SPEAKER_00]: And what I want to do is I kind of want to test some of these jobs that people automatically think $80,000 for an example, electricians, while the national media and paper electricians is $62,000, $350. 05:21.752 --> 05:24.173 [SPEAKER_00]: What about a heavy trucker like those big boy trucks? 05:24.514 --> 05:27.696 [SPEAKER_00]: The national median salary is about $57,440. 05:31.270 --> 05:37.753 [SPEAKER_00]: And then a win technician, the median for that is like 62,580 dollars. 05:38.753 --> 05:47.017 [SPEAKER_00]: So for context, the median across every job in America is $49,500. 05:48.297 --> 05:49.458 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember what I said about median? 05:51.319 --> 05:52.719 [SPEAKER_00]: So this no degree required. 05:53.660 --> 05:55.820 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't automatically mean $80,000 a year salary. 06:00.872 --> 06:01.833 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to get there. 06:04.395 --> 06:12.002 [SPEAKER_00]: But so fun is, I'm going to think about meeting and pay is it's like telling somebody that the average house on this street costs you about $400,000. 06:12.442 --> 06:21.531 [SPEAKER_00]: Without even mentioning that on the same street, there's a mansion for a million, but then down the street, there's another house that's a fixer upward, that's only for $200,000. 06:22.411 --> 06:26.395 [SPEAKER_00]: Because both are actually baked into that number, that's owned that particular street. 06:29.192 --> 06:35.574 [SPEAKER_00]: So these trays, if these jobs, everybody assumes are paying $80,000, don't even get there, what does. 06:36.815 --> 06:46.678 [SPEAKER_00]: And what I really want to do is share with you my own story because I know exactly what it costs to skip the traditional four-year university path. 06:49.379 --> 06:56.282 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what it feels like to have no degree and what that path actually costs me and what it's costing some of you all. 06:58.213 --> 06:59.493 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, I dropped out of school. 07:00.094 --> 07:01.174 [SPEAKER_00]: I hadn't no safety net. 07:02.215 --> 07:07.276 [SPEAKER_00]: There was a stretch where I was completely broke, sleeping in the back of my car. 07:08.417 --> 07:13.239 [SPEAKER_00]: I literally had to build financial literacy for myself from scratch, from zero. 07:14.459 --> 07:21.882 [SPEAKER_00]: I went from bill collector, then to car salesman, then to learn and get the hard way on really how to be a steward of my money. 07:23.002 --> 07:24.763 [SPEAKER_00]: I skipped the traditional path, 07:26.428 --> 07:30.310 [SPEAKER_00]: But just because I stripped the traditional path, doesn't mean I skipped a cost. 07:30.610 --> 07:34.393 [SPEAKER_00]: It meant paying a different kind of cost. 07:34.773 --> 07:37.995 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the truth of fact is, every path that we take, there is a cost. 07:38.015 --> 07:39.035 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a tow road. 07:40.396 --> 07:45.299 [SPEAKER_00]: For an example, if we go the traditional route, college, that's tuition, and that's time. 07:45.839 --> 07:55.145 [SPEAKER_00]: If we go trades route, that's gonna take years and maybe low apprenticeship and low wages and what some physical risk. 07:56.297 --> 08:01.738 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the truth of the fact is y'all, nobody's going to hand you $80,000, $100,000 at the front door. 08:02.398 --> 08:02.618 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 08:03.958 --> 08:04.939 [SPEAKER_00]: No, it's not going to happen. 08:06.819 --> 08:09.620 [SPEAKER_00]: But I want to give you job number one. 08:09.880 --> 08:14.761 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to see the real math before you get excited. 08:15.841 --> 08:18.501 [SPEAKER_00]: When I say the real math, I'm talking about here are the real numbers. 08:19.381 --> 08:22.082 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's exactly what you can expect in these particular fields. 08:23.402 --> 08:27.726 [SPEAKER_00]: And the number one is the elevator in escalator installer slash repair. 08:28.567 --> 08:32.551 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is the highest paying job on the entire list. 08:33.612 --> 08:38.577 [SPEAKER_00]: And the truth of the fact is, I don't know about y'all, but I've never once ever considered this a day in my life. 08:39.558 --> 08:42.861 [SPEAKER_00]: But that national median pay is $106,580 a year. 08:46.689 --> 08:49.130 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't say starter, I said median. 08:49.610 --> 08:57.472 [SPEAKER_00]: So what this median mean, 50% of people in this particular career field are making less than $106,000. 08:58.112 --> 09:07.095 [SPEAKER_00]: Now the typical education required for this, you don't need a degree, high school diploma, for sure, but you don't have to have a college degree. 09:07.515 --> 09:10.976 [SPEAKER_00]: But, but watch what happens. 09:12.317 --> 09:12.937 [SPEAKER_00]: The real path. 09:14.587 --> 09:21.412 [SPEAKER_00]: is almost always a multi-year apprenticeship and in most states, you've got to have a license. 09:24.014 --> 09:24.434 [SPEAKER_00]: Half-two. 09:25.855 --> 09:36.202 [SPEAKER_00]: So that $106,000 includes the 20-year veteran, who's been in it for 20-plus years, who's gained the right to make $8,000 a month. 09:37.223 --> 09:41.346 [SPEAKER_00]: But it also has the young man or the young lady who's only been in it for a year 09:45.853 --> 09:49.859 [SPEAKER_00]: because the first year is going to pay you less than the median. 09:52.122 --> 09:57.590 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like you can't come in there expecting to look at the top of the mountain when you just got to the bottom. 09:58.051 --> 09:59.493 [SPEAKER_00]: You have it even started climbing it. 10:02.422 --> 10:02.742 [SPEAKER_00]: medium. 10:03.063 --> 10:07.425 [SPEAKER_00]: Yo, Saul made $57,000 in his first month at a brand new career. 10:07.565 --> 10:10.347 [SPEAKER_00]: No degree required within eight weeks. 10:10.547 --> 10:13.850 [SPEAKER_00]: You see, most people think a career change means starting over. 10:14.030 --> 10:17.572 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's of school and debt student loans that you really just can't afford. 10:17.652 --> 10:18.733 [SPEAKER_00]: So they just say, you know what? 10:18.913 --> 10:20.174 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to stay where I'm at. 10:20.254 --> 10:21.374 [SPEAKER_00]: The belief is the trap. 10:21.655 --> 10:23.696 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not your work at the keeping you broke. 10:23.876 --> 10:27.818 [SPEAKER_00]: It's an outdated idea about how careers actually work. 10:27.959 --> 10:29.139 [SPEAKER_00]: You see, Saul used my friends 10:30.160 --> 10:34.803 [SPEAKER_00]: but it had real training for high-paying careers in tech, sales, and trades, right? 10:35.143 --> 10:36.124 [SPEAKER_00]: No degree required. 10:36.244 --> 10:38.186 [SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't chasing a piece of paper. 10:38.506 --> 10:41.628 [SPEAKER_00]: He was chasing freedom and chasing a paycheck. 10:42.008 --> 10:45.751 [SPEAKER_00]: Raided 4.8 stars on career karma if 4.9 on course reports. 10:47.672 --> 10:56.117 [SPEAKER_00]: Delo went from no degree, no experience to six figures with real coaches guiding the way and it starts completely free. 10:56.577 --> 11:13.707 [SPEAKER_00]: All you have to do is go to www.anthinunio.com for slash trade schools and you can click the link below in the side of the show notes, but let's get back to today's episode to learn about these five careers and make sure you come back and check out my friends at course careers by going to www.anthinunio.com for slash trade school. 11:13.727 --> 11:14.608 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's job number two. 11:15.898 --> 11:18.939 [SPEAKER_00]: jot number two and I was going to research the pays almost just as much. 11:19.259 --> 11:26.180 [SPEAKER_00]: This one comes with a different kind of price tag, I would say, because this job doesn't forgive mistakes. 11:27.961 --> 11:30.181 [SPEAKER_00]: Can't really, can't afford mistakes. 11:30.942 --> 11:36.103 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a power plant operator slash distributor slash dispatcher. 11:36.903 --> 11:38.663 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, this job pays over $103,000 a year. 11:38.683 --> 11:39.464 [SPEAKER_00]: The reason isn't the training. 11:45.523 --> 11:48.304 [SPEAKER_00]: is the weight on your actual shoulders. 11:48.324 --> 11:54.507 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot of weight on your shoulders, so to pay better be good. 11:55.548 --> 11:58.890 [SPEAKER_00]: The median pays 133,600 dollars. 12:00.750 --> 12:03.252 [SPEAKER_00]: Same entry point, you just need a high school diploma. 12:04.332 --> 12:09.995 [SPEAKER_00]: But this work is safety and is very sensitive and it has high consequences. 12:11.737 --> 12:18.101 [SPEAKER_00]: Because this particular career is responsible for the power staying on for thousands of homes. 12:19.002 --> 12:23.325 [SPEAKER_00]: So one must stay here is in a write-up, it's a blackout. 12:25.627 --> 12:26.527 [SPEAKER_00]: One must stay here. 12:27.808 --> 12:32.972 [SPEAKER_00]: Could be someone's cancer machine or someone's breathe the machine turning off. 12:38.092 --> 12:40.273 [SPEAKER_00]: Some jobs pay you for your hands. 12:41.413 --> 12:44.634 [SPEAKER_00]: This particular job pays you for your nerves. 12:47.475 --> 12:48.515 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll be honest with you. 12:48.835 --> 12:51.956 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a brave soul, but I don't want that on my shoulder. 12:53.496 --> 12:59.278 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to lock in because I'm about to show you what I promise you at the start of this episode. 13:00.934 --> 13:08.617 [SPEAKER_00]: I told you there was one thing that I really want to show you that reframes this entire list and specifically here it is. 13:10.877 --> 13:19.240 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to actually pay attention here, not just hear me, but I want you to pay attention to this. 13:19.840 --> 13:21.801 [SPEAKER_00]: Forget the five jobs forward just a quick second. 13:22.440 --> 13:25.662 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at every worker in America, group by education. 13:26.102 --> 13:32.725 [SPEAKER_00]: Q1 to 2025, a BLS data reveal that high school diplomas individually had a high school diploma. 13:34.106 --> 13:35.587 [SPEAKER_00]: Only made about $950 to $53 a week. 13:35.607 --> 13:36.867 [SPEAKER_00]: That's roughly about $49,556 a year. 13:41.046 --> 13:45.449 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, let's say if you stepped up a little bit, you have some college or an associate degree. 13:46.329 --> 13:52.433 [SPEAKER_00]: You went up to about $1,096 a week, which is about $56,092 a year. 13:53.514 --> 13:55.996 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, let's go to the third level. 13:56.476 --> 13:58.477 [SPEAKER_00]: You have a bachelor's degree or higher. 13:59.758 --> 14:02.340 [SPEAKER_00]: You're making about 1754 a week, which is about 91,200 and $8 a year. 14:09.163 --> 14:14.586 [SPEAKER_00]: So that argument looks like it kind of kills this whole no degree type situation. 14:15.127 --> 14:16.587 [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, maybe so. 14:18.368 --> 14:22.831 [SPEAKER_00]: This is every occupation in America, average together. 14:23.592 --> 14:29.475 [SPEAKER_00]: Most people without a degree aren't doing one of these five specific high toll trades. 14:30.536 --> 14:33.337 [SPEAKER_00]: They're in a average pain job. 14:35.098 --> 14:37.760 [SPEAKER_00]: So these five jobs are the exception. 14:38.752 --> 15:04.217 [SPEAKER_00]: and the exception requires a exact same investment a degree requires just in a different kind of currency I'll be saying instead of you doing tuition, you're doing apprenticeships for years, licensing instead of a diploma, instead of going to the classroom, you got to endure some hazards, it's not 15:05.410 --> 15:10.334 [SPEAKER_00]: a degree versus a no degree is investment versus no investment. 15:11.175 --> 15:17.019 [SPEAKER_00]: Every person who reaches $80,000 plus a year, degree or not, meant pay the particular price. 15:17.339 --> 15:25.546 [SPEAKER_00]: You pay it a toll, and the people who get stuck are the ones who thought, I can get there easy. 15:27.387 --> 15:29.429 [SPEAKER_00]: I can get there for free. 15:35.649 --> 15:37.590 [SPEAKER_00]: One road is longer but paid. 15:38.630 --> 15:39.331 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a degree. 15:40.291 --> 15:44.833 [SPEAKER_00]: The others, shorter, but has a toll booth every single mile. 15:46.113 --> 15:47.914 [SPEAKER_00]: Neither one of those are free. 15:49.435 --> 16:01.680 [SPEAKER_00]: The Georgetown Center of Education and their workforce projects that through 2031, I believe, nearly a third of all job openings about 5.8 million out of 18.5 million a year, 16:04.241 --> 16:11.585 [SPEAKER_00]: go to people within a socialist degree, a certificate, or some college, but no completed degree. 16:13.106 --> 16:14.226 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's not a closed door. 16:14.686 --> 16:18.809 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a real door, but that's a real door with a real-life price. 16:20.630 --> 16:23.811 [SPEAKER_00]: So now that I broke that down, I wanna finish the last three jobs. 16:25.312 --> 16:31.175 [SPEAKER_00]: And what I want you to do as I'm finishing these last three jobs, I want you to try to guess the toll before I tell you. 16:33.097 --> 16:48.304 [SPEAKER_00]: And once you get serious about, I would say, closing the gap between what you make and what you keep, that's exactly what I'll walk you through, step by step, and side of my brand new book, stop living paycheck to paycheck. 16:49.184 --> 16:57.708 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember everything that I'm teaching is about if you make more money than it should create more margin, but the problem is we don't have a lot of margin. 16:58.615 --> 17:08.458 [SPEAKER_00]: So what I wanted to do is go grab my latest book by going to anthonyo.com forward slash book to learn how we can keep 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18:40.661 --> 18:45.223 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the median pay for these individuals, these young man and these young young ladies, is roughly around 92,560 dollars. 18:49.087 --> 19:05.096 [SPEAKER_00]: You only need a high school diploma, often prayer with, you know, going through a year of apprenticeship, but the work means climbing, energize, power lines, during hazardous weather, during a storm, during a tornado sometimes, during emergencies. 19:07.117 --> 19:14.001 [SPEAKER_00]: When your power goes out in a hurricane, somebody has to get up that pole while the storm is still happening. 19:15.342 --> 19:16.162 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the job. 19:17.645 --> 19:21.350 [SPEAKER_00]: that paycheck, somewhat reflects that risk. 19:21.510 --> 19:27.277 [SPEAKER_00]: Or if I'm going up there, doing a stolen, you got to pay me these 10 grand a month. 19:27.597 --> 19:29.540 [SPEAKER_00]: I shouldn't be stressed at home at all. 19:32.323 --> 19:34.526 [SPEAKER_00]: I shouldn't be, yeah. 19:37.310 --> 19:39.530 [SPEAKER_00]: Jot number four is a little different. 19:39.971 --> 19:54.953 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the first one where I have to be honest about something to list never mentions and And this is the range I was saying How do I say this? 19:55.513 --> 19:56.613 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm just going to say the title of it. 19:57.033 --> 20:04.315 [SPEAKER_00]: Transportation Inspector Now this job sounds a little boring on paper the pay range 20:08.203 --> 20:11.006 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no clean number here as I was doing my studies. 20:12.106 --> 20:12.587 [SPEAKER_00]: B.O.S. 20:12.687 --> 20:16.310 [SPEAKER_00]: put it in a range of about $75,000 up to about 100,000. 20:16.330 --> 20:18.492 [SPEAKER_00]: Technically, they said 99,999 dollars in 99 cents. 20:18.512 --> 20:20.254 [SPEAKER_00]: So I was going to round it up to about $100,000. 20:20.274 --> 20:22.436 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, you only need a high school diploma. 20:28.996 --> 20:43.300 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, the on the job training is a little bit moderate, but real-world hiring often once prior experience or specific government qualifications that doesn't show up on that particular list. 20:44.040 --> 20:46.061 [SPEAKER_00]: And here's a rule for the rest of your life. 20:48.481 --> 20:50.962 [SPEAKER_00]: If a source hands you a, I would say, 20:52.340 --> 20:55.442 [SPEAKER_00]: a suspicious perfect number with no range attached. 20:56.062 --> 21:00.965 [SPEAKER_00]: That's usually a sign, somebody's rounding up to make a headline work. 21:02.245 --> 21:02.846 [SPEAKER_00]: Keep that in mind. 21:03.826 --> 21:04.767 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's jotting the five. 21:06.213 --> 21:25.122 [SPEAKER_00]: Because John number five is one where a lot of you already know somebody who's doing this and this connects to something everybody's talking about right now, everybody is talking about this right now, a police or share this sheriff officer, wow, this is a little. 21:30.587 --> 21:38.030 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a little, well, as I'm talking about it, I feel a certain kind of way about police officers right now. 21:38.510 --> 21:39.431 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm grateful for them. 21:39.491 --> 21:46.053 [SPEAKER_00]: I have a cousin who is very high up in the sheriff's rankings. 21:49.375 --> 21:49.735 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody. 21:51.836 --> 21:57.278 [SPEAKER_00]: But even in the midst of the conversation of what we're having right now, everyone was talking about companies dropping degree requirements. 22:01.207 --> 22:12.739 [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone, here's what's real and what's marketing, see police and share of patrol officers land in the same 75,000 up to $100,000 range. 22:13.360 --> 22:20.127 [SPEAKER_00]: The El Anita High School diploma diploma, they got to go to Academy training, got to do some background checks. 22:22.152 --> 22:26.955 [SPEAKER_00]: and the pay swings based upon a location and the county that you're going to be serving in. 22:28.436 --> 22:37.923 [SPEAKER_00]: NACEs 2025 survey found nearly two thirds of employers say they use skills based, based hiring for entry-level roles. 22:42.258 --> 22:52.266 [SPEAKER_00]: But a 2024 Harbor Business School and Burning Glass Institute analysis of that what actually happened after companies dropped those requirements. 22:55.749 --> 22:59.471 [SPEAKER_00]: And the real increase is non-degree hiring. 23:04.756 --> 23:06.597 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is valid for a lot of employers. 23:09.559 --> 23:10.380 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we got to get 23:13.848 --> 23:16.631 [SPEAKER_00]: especially for the share of officers and police officers. 23:16.671 --> 23:20.634 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we need to do a little bit more training for them. 23:21.535 --> 23:24.918 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to get involved in that and say that right now because we're not a political show. 23:27.040 --> 23:30.163 [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully I can share something in the future with you all. 23:33.546 --> 23:35.747 [SPEAKER_00]: But we gotta do a little bit better with our police officers. 23:40.352 --> 23:40.872 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a truth. 23:43.582 --> 23:53.009 [SPEAKER_00]: I think in the future, we're going to see more companies lowering their requirements for degrees. 23:55.211 --> 24:05.018 [SPEAKER_00]: Because, in particular, I think that there are certain career fields that do require and should require years of education. 24:07.001 --> 24:15.426 [SPEAKER_00]: But I do believe that there are certain jobs that used to require your four-year degree, minimum, that shit not. 24:16.467 --> 24:21.149 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they go through and get a certificate or a particular trade certificate. 24:24.671 --> 24:35.898 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if we lost 23,000 jobs last month, that's 23,000 brothers and sisters, moms and dads, grandsons and grandchildren that are without a job. 24:38.732 --> 24:43.916 [SPEAKER_00]: So these five particular jobs, man, if you can get into the field, I will say get into it. 24:44.577 --> 24:50.222 [SPEAKER_00]: Just know that you may start at a lower number to work your way up to the median, up until the top. 24:51.023 --> 24:54.766 [SPEAKER_00]: But I think it is, I think it is a great opportunity. 24:56.467 --> 25:03.193 [SPEAKER_00]: But while I give you these five numbers, here's the part that matters more than any single job title. 25:05.017 --> 25:08.919 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to tell you what's job to take what job to take seriously and what job to look into. 25:08.999 --> 25:10.280 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm giving you something better. 25:10.940 --> 25:21.586 [SPEAKER_00]: The questions that work on all five of these, and on whatever job you're considering right now, here's a very first question they should come up on the screen. 25:22.246 --> 25:26.528 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to ask yourself, is this the median or is it the starting salary? 25:28.409 --> 25:29.670 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to write this question down. 25:30.130 --> 25:33.672 [SPEAKER_00]: Is this the median or is this the starting salary? 25:34.734 --> 25:37.177 [SPEAKER_00]: Number two is, what's the actual toll? 25:37.197 --> 25:41.983 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, what is the actual cost to get to the median or higher? 25:42.945 --> 25:45.708 [SPEAKER_00]: How many years are the any license required? 25:46.309 --> 25:47.130 [SPEAKER_00]: What's the risk? 25:47.190 --> 25:48.031 [SPEAKER_00]: What's the hazard? 25:48.492 --> 25:50.274 [SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, what's the working schedule? 25:52.021 --> 25:57.203 [SPEAKER_00]: One of my, my God children, he graduated high school, did not want to go to a traditional school. 25:57.803 --> 26:05.065 [SPEAKER_00]: I forgot the field that he's in, but I do know that he has to go on a boat, live and work on a boat for 38 days. 26:06.426 --> 26:07.806 [SPEAKER_00]: At a time, then he comes home. 26:07.846 --> 26:13.828 [SPEAKER_00]: He takes off 30 days, then he goes back for 38 days, then he takes off for 30 days. 26:14.429 --> 26:18.750 [SPEAKER_00]: For the 38 days that he's working, he's working like a nurse 12 hours a day. 26:21.484 --> 26:22.585 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't ask off. 26:22.625 --> 26:27.909 [SPEAKER_00]: Like you can't report the work on 38 days and ask for three days off doing those 38 days. 26:27.989 --> 26:32.532 [SPEAKER_00]: No, you've got to work all 38 straight 12 hours a day on the boat. 26:34.454 --> 26:35.154 [SPEAKER_00]: But he likes it. 26:35.315 --> 26:36.575 [SPEAKER_00]: He's 22 years old. 26:39.998 --> 26:40.799 [SPEAKER_00]: But what's the risk? 26:40.839 --> 26:41.519 [SPEAKER_00]: What's the toll? 26:41.539 --> 26:42.440 [SPEAKER_00]: What's the requirement? 26:42.460 --> 26:43.160 [SPEAKER_00]: What's the schedule? 26:43.861 --> 26:50.286 [SPEAKER_00]: Number three, is there a real source or am I just trusting this article? 26:51.738 --> 26:52.798 [SPEAKER_00]: means you got to your research. 26:53.098 --> 26:58.999 [SPEAKER_00]: Number four, what does this pay look like in year one, not in year 10 or year 15? 27:01.040 --> 27:06.441 [SPEAKER_00]: And the last question which I believe is one of the most important questions, does it fit? 27:06.561 --> 27:07.001 [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no. 27:07.481 --> 27:09.242 [SPEAKER_00]: Does it align with the plan? 27:10.182 --> 27:11.402 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm already building. 27:14.103 --> 27:16.343 [SPEAKER_00]: These are five questions that matter. 27:18.985 --> 27:24.547 [SPEAKER_00]: These are five questions that no matter what field you're going into, you've got to ask yourself. 27:26.928 --> 27:30.490 [SPEAKER_00]: Say your household brings in, let's say roughly $85,000 a year. 27:32.651 --> 27:34.932 [SPEAKER_00]: The exact number off of that list, right? 27:35.775 --> 27:46.248 [SPEAKER_00]: But if 20,000 of that goes to a car note and credit cars, that household doesn't feel like $85,000 a year, it technically feels like almost $50,000. 27:47.049 --> 27:53.797 [SPEAKER_00]: So the job title was never the real problem that planning a strategy for the money is the problem. 27:54.662 --> 28:02.727 [SPEAKER_00]: is he chasing a job without a money plan, is upgrading your income into a house with a hole in the roof. 28:03.487 --> 28:09.631 [SPEAKER_00]: That every time it rains a little bit, every time there's a storm, you're flooded inside the house. 28:09.831 --> 28:12.813 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you actually do the years of apprenticeship? 28:13.974 --> 28:19.797 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you examined the real lifestyle or are you only interested in the number? 28:24.682 --> 28:27.184 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you click on this video because you're looking for a career? 28:28.105 --> 28:29.526 [SPEAKER_00]: Or are you looking for a shortcut? 28:37.252 --> 28:37.773 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember this? 28:39.594 --> 28:45.078 [SPEAKER_00]: When the next time you see studies come out, and shows up about, hey, here are the top jobs with no degrees. 28:47.700 --> 28:50.082 [SPEAKER_00]: I call it the five question told check. 28:53.183 --> 29:02.827 [SPEAKER_00]: meeting a starting salary, the real toll, the real source, what is year one pay, and does it aligned what I'm trying to build? 29:05.448 --> 29:06.268 [SPEAKER_00]: I told you I had to start. 29:07.469 --> 29:10.730 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, I unfortunately made some bad decisions in school. 29:12.791 --> 29:15.492 [SPEAKER_00]: Never finished my degree up until about three to four years ago. 29:17.450 --> 29:26.574 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not telling you that I've built the multiple semifigrant business to brag without it agree because I paid my price. 29:27.435 --> 29:40.061 [SPEAKER_00]: I had loan nights and today I'm sitting here today with my MBA a year away from my doctorate with the net worth in a millions and a million dollar company. 29:42.131 --> 29:48.094 [SPEAKER_00]: your toe may look a little bit different and might be a certification and maybe you're going through two years of apprenticeship. 29:48.134 --> 29:48.514 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 29:50.055 --> 29:58.059 [SPEAKER_00]: For a lot of you, which I agree that a lot of you should be going to a four-year university, like a regent university. 30:02.281 --> 30:04.061 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not against any roles. 30:14.902 --> 30:17.944 [SPEAKER_00]: walking through life without a real plan, without a real strategy. 30:20.085 --> 30:22.386 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care what path you decide to go down. 30:23.007 --> 30:25.048 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care what you decide to do. 30:25.668 --> 30:26.669 [SPEAKER_00]: Just have a plan. 30:29.350 --> 30:36.094 [SPEAKER_00]: Because nearly a third-of-all job opening through 231 are going to go to people without a degree. 30:36.894 --> 30:39.576 [SPEAKER_00]: So there is a path for people without a degree. 30:45.213 --> 30:47.195 [SPEAKER_00]: wealth is built through strategy. 30:48.976 --> 30:51.939 [SPEAKER_00]: Your career is a part of that strategy. 30:54.161 --> 30:56.963 [SPEAKER_00]: So pick your path and you run it. 30:58.544 --> 31:02.248 [SPEAKER_00]: And as you're running it, make sure you ask these five questions. 31:03.669 --> 31:04.109 [SPEAKER_00]: That's it. 31:04.890 --> 31:05.951 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the old thing. 31:08.473 --> 31:09.354 [SPEAKER_00]: Go run the numbers. 31:14.152 --> 31:16.714 [SPEAKER_00]: because that's the most important part. 31:17.315 --> 31:23.881 [SPEAKER_00]: Your road, not my road, not your homeboys road, not your homegirls road road, what is the path? 31:24.422 --> 31:27.525 [SPEAKER_00]: You and God decided to go down. 31:29.895 --> 31:31.636 [SPEAKER_00]: And don't be ashamed of that path. 31:32.776 --> 31:34.977 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't feel insecure about that path. 31:36.197 --> 31:38.298 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to go to trade school, go to trade school. 31:38.318 --> 31:40.138 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to go to tech school, go to tech school. 31:40.158 --> 31:43.179 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to go to a four-year university, go to a four-year university. 31:43.199 --> 31:52.062 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to go get a certificate, go get a freaking certificate, just pick your path, and put on your horse eyes, and run your path. 31:54.583 --> 31:55.523 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't stress that enough. 31:57.608 --> 32:02.209 [SPEAKER_00]: Because it bothers me to know that 23,000 people lost their jobs last month. 32:02.589 --> 32:05.330 [SPEAKER_00]: And bothers me that people are still living paycheck to paycheck. 32:05.630 --> 32:12.051 [SPEAKER_00]: It bothers me that a lot of my community members do not have a freaking path. 32:17.513 --> 32:18.273 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to change that. 32:20.794 --> 32:21.594 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to change that. 32:24.054 --> 32:26.995 [SPEAKER_00]: Because we can't get the freedom if we don't have a path. 32:29.103 --> 32:32.244 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't write stop living paycheck to paycheck to help you make more money. 32:34.165 --> 32:39.688 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not coming into the studio every single week to record content and post every single day to help you make more money. 32:42.029 --> 32:46.431 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't put the top five jobs that make $80,000 or more a year. 32:46.711 --> 32:49.232 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't create today's episode to help you make more money. 32:49.272 --> 32:50.273 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know why I did this? 32:52.133 --> 32:53.834 [SPEAKER_00]: Because I want you to experience freedom. 33:02.799 --> 33:10.241 [SPEAKER_00]: So share today's episode with a friend, share this community with a friend, my team and I wear. 33:12.842 --> 33:16.283 [SPEAKER_00]: As you can see, our souls are getting more intentional. 33:17.884 --> 33:22.285 [SPEAKER_00]: The caliber of our souls are starting to step up because I want to reach more people. 33:22.866 --> 33:30.408 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to get millions in this community at one freedom, not just more money. 33:33.818 --> 33:36.843 [SPEAKER_00]: because freedom is better than being rich. 33:38.446 --> 33:39.267 [SPEAKER_00]: It should boy A.O. 33:40.128 --> 33:41.290 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll see you on the next episode. 33:41.871 --> 33:42.172 [SPEAKER_00]: Peace out.