No degree? No skills? No worries. Try this....

[JackFlash]

Thirty years ago, after getting tired of being underpaid and certainly being under appreciated, I took a test to work at the Post Office.  

I got the job and started at $10.50 an hour.  I'm a VET, so I got five extra hiring points on my test score.  If you have a disability from the military, you get ten points.  This was the best move I could have made, having no certified skills or degree.  I just retired, making nearly $86k per year base pay, being an electronic technician.  Overtime, holidays, and working nights bump up your pay as well.  Well, that's the title they gave us, anyway.  I was an "ET".  Not that I could troubleshoot a circuit board, or anything like that.  But I can read a multimeter and follow schematics.  A little electrical and a little mechanical knowledge got me through my days working on machines that process the mail.  

If being outside year-round is your thing, you can carry mail.  Or you can be what is called an Area Maintenance Technician.  They work on the buildings and their inner workings.  You could be a machine operator and process mail.  Truck driving interest you?  Manual labor?  I did that for seven and a half years before I went into maintenance.  Custodial work?  I did that for a while, also.  I moved up one step at a time until I landed my last position.  Want to go into management?  

The benefits are good, and they will match you dollar for dollar on the first 3% and fifty cents on the dollar for the next 2% you contribute to the Thrift Savings Plan.  I put in 15-20% for years.  It is very common for a person to retire with a seven-figure bank account from the post office.

Check it out.  It was well worth it for me.

 

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