What career can I develop at my age(52) within two years or less, make money and be in demand?

I have a liberal arts college degree which I never used, and have not had a meaningful work history. I am capable of good mental work, but don't know if I can handle the rigors of something like nursing. If I could that is an example of something I know is in demand. I want something like that, in that it allows one to live almost anywhere and to work in various settings. Again, I don't know that I could handle it. Are there any other occupations which if I get qualified with a degree or what is needed would guarantee me a good career with job opportunities in various places and good pay with benefits? Or I would like to be independent; if the money was good I don't need benefits. I am willing to go back to school, would prefer something online, but at my age I want something that would assure me of opportunity and that the profession is in high demand. In school I was great at subjects such as english and social sciences, but weak at math and physical sciences like chemistry

What career can I develop at my age(52) within two years or less, make money and be in demand?
i dont know
Reply:Maybe you could start a daycare if you like kids.
Reply:Bank robbery can be profitable, I hear.





There's not much in the way of good pay and benefits for someone over the age of 40.





In general, the pay is better for things people *can't* do for themselves, or *won't* do for themselves. Jobs that look difficult, unpleasant or dangerous (even if they aren't) or jobs that require skills or licenses most people don't have are the ones that pay the best.





If you're good at English and Social Sciences, you'd probably be good at managing underpaid labor. That suggests running a restaurant or a convenience store. You're good at mental work, so you're probably creative. That suggests you'd probably be good as a chef or a baker.





I'd recommend you tune in an episode or two of "Ace of Cakes", and investigate shops that make wedding cakes in your area, and other bakeries.





There's a bakery a few blocks down the street that primarily bakes Italian bread. You'd think that would be a small niche, but he's got tons of business and sells to almost every restaurant in the county. Flour is cheap, and his customers buy the product seven days a week, not just when they get married. He's expanding into adjoining counties, limited by his ability to ramp up production, because customers want what he's offering.





But if not bread, and not cakes, you could open a bakery that specializes in pies or donuts or bagels, or cinnamon buns. (Pizza is a hot bread business, but everybody and his brother is in that one.)





If you were a little younger, I'd recommend you open a ribs joint. Not a restaurant with seating, just a vacant lot on a busy street. Customer pulls up, you wrap up a slab of ribs in aluminum foil, toss in a box of cole slaw, take his $20 bill, and he's gone. A lot of those places are only open on Friday and/or Saturday - payday! - and they're busy from 10 AM to 9 PM, and they only close then because they've run out of meat. You're not talking much money - a smoker that you pull behind your car, and a canopy tent, some ice chests. But those guys set up about 5 AM in order to have food available for the lunch trade, so it's a *long* day. Work two days like that every week, and spend another day cleaning up and getting ready for the next weekend.





I wouldn't be surprised if some of those rib shacks put $100,000 a year or more in the owner's pocket, even after he has paid all his costs. Not bad for an investment of maybe $2,000.
Reply:forget your liberal arts degree, basically worhthless for a career. Teaching?
Reply:Yeah be a teacher overseas of English. Or be a porn star.


Or tutor. Or get a real estate license and focus in on Seniors. Or take a class and get your license as bartender. Good money can be made in any job as long as you are willing to go a little "extra." In other words, if you work at McD's do something extra, stell stuff on the front counter why you work and maybe help people out a little to make some tips. A tip won't always be guranteed but you can always make the most of it.(this type of attitude can be applied anywhere) Sell your social security number to 50 different illegal aliens so they can all use it to work. U can get between $500-1,000 per sale. Then come out to Vegas and bet it all on Black.


Luck
Reply:Be a truck driver. they are begging people to do this and the training is very short.
Reply:be a vampire (draw blood at blood banks, hospitals, clinics).


an LVN...


Xray tech...


Dental tech...


Cosmotology...


do you have a hobby you like. I taught myself cake decorating at 16...I was a decorator for 28 yrs. ( till arthritis in my hands did me in..)
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They may help you.
Reply:Dental assisting takes a year or less. Dental hygienist is a 2-year degree.
Reply:Lock smith? I had to shell out $90 for a single, REGULAR normal none-important key for my car when I lost mine. My insurance covered the trip for the lock smith, and I paid the $90 out of pocket. My wife paid $120 once for a key for her car, again just a normal key. One could only guess how much they charged my insurance company to come to the site.
Reply:IT
Reply:Im doing nursing and the amount of physical activity expected is not actually that much.





I am doing nursing and im going to aim to get into critical care.





You do drug calculations, administration of drugs, anatomy, biology... and there are many older people on the course.





it also takes you throughout the world if you want and is in major demand. i think it is the answer to all your needs and is worth a rethink. you do not have a lot of contact with patients and do not have to lift them up, there is special machinery and devices that do that for you. people dont want crippled nurses like they were in the past, now, there are special electric beds and hoists to move the patient. they actually discourage physical contact
Reply:Have you considered a career in medical transcription? This profession requires mental acuity, attention to detail, accuracy, and it is portable if you move around a lot or would like to.





M-TEC is one of the top-rated schools for medical transcription training, and their students range in age all the way up to those who have retired from other careers. This school also has a 100% placement rate of their Premier Program graduates.
Reply:real state...license can take up to 2 months and ur set.
Reply:Become a phlebotomist. It is usually on the job training and certification without the rigors of science classes. All professional health care jobs are science based and require chemistry, biology, anatomy and physiology. You could try to take a remedial biology class at your community college and start slow to see if you could get through the other classes for a more professional degree. A phlebotomist doesn't make nearly as much as a nurse(RN), resp therapist or rad tech but they are in demand and are used all over the country from big cities to small towns. It's also not as physical as the other jobs. If you can get through a nursing program there are so many non-physical nursing jobs out there with decent pay and benefits. LPN's work in nursing homes and do home health also they are used in Dr's offices. LPN programs are shorter and don't require as many science prerequisites. Good luck and by the way half of the people in my respiratory therapy program were people going back to school for a job that paid better with benefits where you don't get laid off. One woman was a graduate from Julliard music school in NYC in her late 40's. It's never too late.





check out www.legacyhealth.org





it has a list of open jobs and the pay scale to give you a rough idea of what different jobs pay in Portland Oregon.
Reply:A few choices:





Division 2 Nursing - always in demand and only 12 months training required.





Private investigator - 6 to 12 months training depending on levels etc. - Depends where you live as to work in area.





Aged care worker - less than 6 months training and big demand.





Mental health training - around 12 months - where you can assist people with mental health problems like counsiling, getting jobs for them and general helper to them etc





Most health care work is pretty well guaranteed income work at any age as long as you're fit enough to do the jobs etc.


Plus flexible hours in most of them as well.





Don't bother with many of the hobby type courses as they usually lead to nothing.