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Friday, September 5, 2014
13 Highest-Paying Jobs For People Who Hate Sitting At a Desk
Sitting in a cubicle all day can be depressing, but the sad truth is
that the vast majority of high-paying, stable jobs require people to
mostly stay chained to their desk. Using average salary data from the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, we decided to pick out the 13
highest-paying jobs where people get to stop staring at their computer
screens and go somewhere else.
Take a look to see the kind of money you can make in a classroom, at a drill site, or in a cockpit 30,000 feet above the earth.
13. Mining and geological engineer
Average annual pay: $96,950
These are the folks responsible for figuring out what's going on under
the surface at mining and land development sites, and making sure things
are safe for the environment and for workers.
Though mining is thought to be a dangerous industry, the salary isn't bad.
There's good money in the (college) classroom, and economics professors
are cited everywhere from news stories to policy papers for their
decision-making knowledge.
Prior to working for the government, current Federal Reserve chair Janet
Yellen was an economics professor at the University of
California-Berkeley.
This job description includes both professors primarily concerned with teaching and those primarily working in research.
Shutterstock 9. Chemical engineer
Average annual pay: $104,340
Chemical engineers help create everything from medicine to fuel. Many
work in offices, but others have the opportunity to work in laboratories
or at the facilities where their science is being used to create new
foods or chemicals.
What could be cooler than building airplanes and spaceships?
While many engineers spend a lot of their time in an office, others get
to go onsite to oversee the actual construction of the things they're
building.
Teaching doctors, dentists, and veterinarians can make you a nice six-figure salary.
The average salary isn't quite as much as what the average practicing physician makes, but it's certainly nothing to sneeze at.
Alamy 6. Geoscientist
Average annual pay: $108,420
Earth scientists study a wide range of natural landscapes and can work
in jobs at engineering and environmental consulting firms, mining
companies, and government agencies.
Oftentimes this means going on site, whether its helping the Army Corps
of Engineers build a bridge or studying the ocean to produce research
for a college.
Being a legal professor is a pretty good gig. You get a nice salary and
the opportunity to educate the next generation of lawyers and judges.
And who knows, you might just follow in the footsteps of Bill Clinton
and Barack Obama, both of whom taught law school before moving on to
bigger things.
Petroleum engineers come up with the best ways to get oil out of the
ground, a valuable skill these days. This profession includes developing
the tools and software necessary to get the job done.
Much of the work is done on-site, where the engineers are required to
inspect the drilling process and make sure everything is running
smoothly.
Knocking people out before surgery is such a lucrative skill that even
the nurses who practice it are raking in an average annual salary well
above $100,000 a year.
Sometimes the nurse anesthetist only assists the doctor while the doctor
performs anesthesia. Either way, the job requires the people to be
registered nurses with specialized graduate education.
