Top 100 careers without a four-year degree : your complete guidebook to major jobs in many fields / Michael Farr.

10th ed.- cataloged as a serial in LC. DLC

Provides descriptions of one hundred careers that do not require a bachelor's degree, each with information on the nature of the work, training and other qualifications, employment, job outlook, earnings, and related occupations; and includes seven-steps to getting a good job as well as essays on employment trends.

Introduction -- pt. I. Using the job-match grid to choose a career --

pt. II. Descriptions of the top 100 careers without a four-year degree -- Actors, producers, and directors -- Agricultural sales agents -- Aircraft and avionics equipment mechanics and service technicians -- Aircraft pilots and flight engineers -- Armed Forces -- Artists and related workers -- Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers -- Automotive body and related repairers -- Automotive service technicians and mechanics -- Barbers, cosmetologists, and other personal appearance workers -- Bill and account collectors -- Boilermakers -- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks -- Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons -- Broadcast and sound engineering technicians and radio operators -- Brokerage clerks -- Building cleaning workers -- Cardiovascular technologists and technicians -- Cargo and freight agents -- Carpenters -- Cement masons, concrete finishers, segmental pavers, and terrazzo workers -- Chefs, cooks, and food preparation workers -- Child care workers -- Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators -- Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians -- Computer scientists and database administrators -- Computer support specialists and systems administrators -- Construction and building inspectors -- Construction equipment operators -- Construction laborers -- Correctional officers -- Counter and rental clerks -- Court reporters -- Customer service representatives -- Dental assistants -- Dental hygienists -- Diagnostic medical sonographers -- Diesel service technicians and mechanics -- Drafters -- Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, and tapers -- Electricians -- Emergency medical technicians and paramedics -- Engineering technicians -- Farmers, ranchers, and agricultural managers -- Fire fighting occupations -- Fitness workers -- Flight attendants -- Food and beverage serving and related workers -- Food service managers -- Funeral directors -- Grounds maintenance workers -- Heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers -- Industrial machinery mechanics and maintenance workers -- Interior designers -- Interpreters and translators -- Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses -- Line installers and repairers -- Maintenance and repair workers, general -- Massage therapists -- Medical assistants -- Medical records and health information technicians -- Musicians, singers, and related workers -- Nuclear medicine technologists -- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides -- Occupational therapist assistants and aides -- Office and administrative support worker supervisors and managers -- Office clerks, general -- Painters and paperhangers -- Paralegals and legal assistants -- Personal and home care aides -- Pharmacy technicians -- Physical therapist assistants and aides -- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters -- Police and detectives -- Production, planning, and expediting clerks -- Purchasing managers, buyers, and purchasing agents -- Radiation therapists -- Radiologic technologists and technicians -- Real estate brokers and sales agents -- Receptionists and information clerks -- Registered nurses -- Respiratory therapists -- Retail salespersons -- Roofers -- Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing -- Sales worker supervisors -- Science technicians -- Secretaries and administrative assistants -- Security guards and gaming surveillance officers -- Sheet metal workers -- Social and human service assistants -- Surgical technologists -- Surveyors, cartographers, photogrammetrists, and surveying and mapping technicians -- Teachers : preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle and secondary -- Teachers : self-enrichment education -- Tellers -- Truck drivers and driver/sales workers -- Veterinary technologists and technicians -- Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators -- Water transportation occupations --

pt. III. Quick job search : seven steps to getting a good job in less time --

pt. IV. Important trends in jobs and industries -- Tomorrow's jobs -- Employment trends in major industries -- Job outlook for people who don't have a bachelor's degree -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.