# Career choices ITT **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 31, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/career-choices-itt/262522 "2012-01-31T20:47:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 44
**Author:** ![JRubino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jrubino/32/6285_2.png) [@JRubino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JRubino)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/career-choices-itt/262522/44 "2012-02-01T09:48:27Z")
> [@ITT TECH](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/itt-tech/48080/25): > > 1,000 a week is a 1,000 a week - more than I can make working at McDonalds for 8 hours a day haha. Stick it out for a few years and work your way up and you can easily be 6 figures or close to it with little or no college. Not many jobs will pay $37/hr out of the gate to start with tons of benefits and a healthy retirement. THIS. I mentioned it before and I’ll say it again, the rail road is one of the very few careers you can get into with no college education and make $50,000 your first year. Any kid fresh out of college would jump at a salary like that. I imagine anyone that can pass a drug test and adjust to working a crazy work schedule that truly needed a job to support themselves or a family would be crazy if they turned it down. School isn’t for everyone and at the time I thought it wasn’t for me either but I do know now how incredibly important education is, especially in today’s economy. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/career-choices-itt/262522)._