13. Drywall and ceiling tile installers
Median pay for 2015 – $39,220
This category ranks 13th in our list of best careers if you have no education and includes plenty of jobs, including drywall applicator, finisher, hanger, installer, sander, stripper, as well as sheetrock applier, hanger and installer, to name a few. This is the kind of job you learn on site, and you only get better with time. You’d have to apply plasterboard, or other types of wallboards to ceilings or interior walls, acoustical tiles or blocks and other types of materials to rooms that need to reduce or reflect sound.
