6. Tapers
Median pay for 2015 – $47,970
Under this category, there are several jobs, including drywall taper, sheetrock taper, and wall taper. Among the job tasks, there’s spreading sealing compound between boards or panels, and so on, pressing paper tape over joints to embed tape into sealing compound and more.
5. Continuous mining machine operators
Median pay – $48,620
This category ranks 5th in our list of best careers if you have no education. It involves a handful of jobs, including continuous mining machine coal and lode miners and self-propelled mining machine operators. These people operate self-propelled machines that rip coal, metal, and other ores, stone, rocks and sand, from the mine.
