Commercial diver who can weld things. It’s a little dangerous, and largely involves spending your day underwater off the coast of Scotland fixing oil rigs.
I would say a coroner pays very well but I think more people would want to do it, but it’s very hard to get into as it’s either high ranking medics or lawyers who can do it.
I’ve heard a lot of stuff involving sewage and sewers is along these lines.
Not just dealing with literal shit, but also working in confined spaces, risk of death from toxic gas, etc.
On a more quaint level, there aren’t many thatchers left in the UK, but if you have a thatched roof it needs replacing every 20 or so years and it is very difficult to get planning permission to just get a slate/tiled roof instead as many are listed/protected. So if you’re a good thatcher, there’s lots of work and very good money.
There are guys who crawl inside the water cooling pipes in nuclear reactors to clean them. The pies are at 80 degrees even though the reactor is “cool” so they wear special suits and have an air supply. Apparently they’ll work six months, or until they reach their maximum radiation dose for the year, and take the rest of the time off.
A lot of commission-based sales jobs, mostly because it’s a brutally unforgiving industry that chews up anyone without the resilience and work ethic needed to keep going at it day after day, pitch after pitch. Those that can cut it can earn a lot of money, but if you can’t, then walk away immediately as you’ll hate every minute!
I’ve met a few people whose job paid well, but you’d have to have a certain mentality to do it.
One guy’s job was to clean up the blood and guts after fatal road accidents. If it wasn’t grim enough, you can’t exactly plan for accidents so they had on call rotas so you’d get dragged out of bed to go look at it, but he had previously been in the army so dead bodies weren’t foreign to him.
Also used to work with a guy who previously welded pipes in Alaska. He said you’d typically be on shift for 12 or more hours a day, and usually only worked during winter so there wasn’t really much daylight. Not as horrific as dead bodies, but he said you were cold and wet all day and you lost track of time, plus it was easy to get depressed with no sun. He was a raging alcoholic which started on that job.
Heard if your a carpenter then securing houses after the police have been in to evict people they pay quite well as you’ve got to work quickly to ensure the house is secure by the end of the day to stop people getting in again afterwards.
Not in the UK, but I once saw a documentary about a Dutch guy who cleaned appartements where people had died. Some of their corpses having laid there for several months. He has his own professional cleaning company and has made a small fortune with that work, but only because no one else wants to do it.
If you’re a British butler you can make good money overseas.
With on call bonuses and housing it can be hundreds of thousands a year. The hours can be gruelling and you’re pretty much just a show piece for visitors.
You’ll be expected to wait on your employer on hand and foot (sometimes literally). Not to mention the kind of people who can afford you are not usually kindhearted.
I don’t know if it’s absurdly well, but a friend of mine is a van driver for a company delivering stuff to factories – overalls mostly. Because the drivers all set off about 3am everyday, he’s on about 45k.
It’s not absurd I suppose, but I don’t think you’d find a standard van driver job that’s salaried for anywhere near that much money. I think there’s a fleet of about 12 drivers, the reason for the higher salary is they found people kept leaving due to the strange working pattern. He’s home by midday/1pm most days, so if you’re happy starting that early it’s not bad.
Most army jobs. Your bog standard 18 year old infantry rifleman with no other skills, no GCSEs, zero work or life experience is on £27k a year starting salary. Assuming you hang around for five years, don’t promote, don’t do any courses, don’t do anything to improve, you’re on £33k, as your salary goes up a thousand pounds a year or so just from seniority. On top of that, you get extra money if you’re away from base for more than 7 days, you get more money if that’s abroad, and you get an extra £3.5k a year if you pick a unit posted to Northern Ireland. You get subsidized (if not great) housing and food, plus lots of sport and education allowances.
Frankly, it’s just about the best package available if you’re young and don’t have a trade. Why? Because no one wants to do it. Relative to the rest of society the army package has gotten better and better (in real terms it’s gotten worse, but so has all of Britain) in the last 10-15 years because people just aren’t interested in joining and the army is desperate for privates. Fine for officers by and large, and specialists abs technicians isn’t too bad. But just your basic grunts? No one wants to do it.
Dry stone walling. It’s not easy to get into, as you will need someone to teach you, maybe be an apprentice. But if you can get that, and you enjoy working in open fields whilst It pisses it down, then you can earn good money doing it.
Costs to rebuild a knocked down farm wall are about £50m^2, upto about £70 where I am. I am not very good at walling (learned on the farm) and I can do about 1m every 2 hours. So that would be £25ph. The costs are often higher if you have to take the wall right back to the footings and basically start from scratch.
However, I have seen charges for new walls, built in a front garden of a property to be as high as £250m^2. Yes you have to make it look prettier and yes you may have to do extras like cementing the toppers on, but that’s insane money for someone who is proficient. You could be looking at £7k in labour for a brand new dry stone wall, that’s 1.5m high by 10m long.
Perhaps not absurdly well, but you can earn a very good wage, with very little outgoings (all you need is a hammer, chisel and a pair of gloves for repairs) and work pretty much whenever you want.
Cobol software engineer. The language has been dead for decades for good reasons but banks and military applications are too afraid to update the whole thing to more modern languages and these things need maintenance and new features.
I once contemplated a job offer as a night shift mortuary assistant. It was a long time ago and back then they were allowed to work alone. Embalming bodies. Alone. At night.
At the time I was earning 3 quid an hour on a till.
My old man worked on rigs in Nigeria converting diesel to whatever or something on the oil rigs… He needed an escort from the airport to the rigs…. The danger of them being kidnapped or shot before they even arrived at the dangerous job was real.
I did a car finance application for a dude who was a self employed mobile embalmer in the UK. He was making about 60k a year. He was telling me about how he didn’t know if he was going to have a busy week or not, as he had 3 “pending deceased” in the hospital
I know a guy who was a diver, worked on oil rigs and stuff. He earned a shit load of money but he was also strange with it and told some very eerie stories about seeing things underwater in the blackness. You really have to be a bit special to do that job.
The husband of an in-law did something to do with railway track engineering.
The company decided he was too expensive and laid him off.
He started his own railways track engineering contracting firm, staff of one, and charged his own company a daily rate that worked out at many times his old salary.
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Commercial diver who can weld things. It’s a little dangerous, and largely involves spending your day underwater off the coast of Scotland fixing oil rigs.
I would say a coroner pays very well but I think more people would want to do it, but it’s very hard to get into as it’s either high ranking medics or lawyers who can do it.
Offshore work and FIFO mining.
It’s hard to get into, and you need skills beyond just wanting to do it.
I’ve heard a lot of stuff involving sewage and sewers is along these lines.
Not just dealing with literal shit, but also working in confined spaces, risk of death from toxic gas, etc.
On a more quaint level, there aren’t many thatchers left in the UK, but if you have a thatched roof it needs replacing every 20 or so years and it is very difficult to get planning permission to just get a slate/tiled roof instead as many are listed/protected. So if you’re a good thatcher, there’s lots of work and very good money.
Got speaking to a guy at the train station who’s job it was to clean up after someone jumps in front of a train. He said he gets paid well for it.
There are guys who crawl inside the water cooling pipes in nuclear reactors to clean them. The pies are at 80 degrees even though the reactor is “cool” so they wear special suits and have an air supply. Apparently they’ll work six months, or until they reach their maximum radiation dose for the year, and take the rest of the time off.
No thanks.
A lot of commission-based sales jobs, mostly because it’s a brutally unforgiving industry that chews up anyone without the resilience and work ethic needed to keep going at it day after day, pitch after pitch. Those that can cut it can earn a lot of money, but if you can’t, then walk away immediately as you’ll hate every minute!
Refuse workers should have the same salaries as MPs.
Edit: because of some confusion.
Refuse. As a trash, garbage collection.
I’ve met a few people whose job paid well, but you’d have to have a certain mentality to do it.
One guy’s job was to clean up the blood and guts after fatal road accidents. If it wasn’t grim enough, you can’t exactly plan for accidents so they had on call rotas so you’d get dragged out of bed to go look at it, but he had previously been in the army so dead bodies weren’t foreign to him.
Also used to work with a guy who previously welded pipes in Alaska. He said you’d typically be on shift for 12 or more hours a day, and usually only worked during winter so there wasn’t really much daylight. Not as horrific as dead bodies, but he said you were cold and wet all day and you lost track of time, plus it was easy to get depressed with no sun. He was a raging alcoholic which started on that job.
Manchester united head coach
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Something smelly, dangerous, or both.
Heard if your a carpenter then securing houses after the police have been in to evict people they pay quite well as you’ve got to work quickly to ensure the house is secure by the end of the day to stop people getting in again afterwards.
Residential childcare work once you get into the more senior roles
Weapons engineer officer on the subs they make £135k before all the daily bonuses.
Not in the UK, but I once saw a documentary about a Dutch guy who cleaned appartements where people had died. Some of their corpses having laid there for several months. He has his own professional cleaning company and has made a small fortune with that work, but only because no one else wants to do it.
These comments making me question why I ever scrubbed toilets for minimum wage…
People who go inside aircraft wings (fuel tanks) to carry out repairs.
https://youtube.com/shorts/XyA5LPr5RiY?feature=shared
If you’re a British butler you can make good money overseas.
With on call bonuses and housing it can be hundreds of thousands a year. The hours can be gruelling and you’re pretty much just a show piece for visitors.
You’ll be expected to wait on your employer on hand and foot (sometimes literally). Not to mention the kind of people who can afford you are not usually kindhearted.
I don’t know if it’s absurdly well, but a friend of mine is a van driver for a company delivering stuff to factories – overalls mostly. Because the drivers all set off about 3am everyday, he’s on about 45k.
It’s not absurd I suppose, but I don’t think you’d find a standard van driver job that’s salaried for anywhere near that much money. I think there’s a fleet of about 12 drivers, the reason for the higher salary is they found people kept leaving due to the strange working pattern. He’s home by midday/1pm most days, so if you’re happy starting that early it’s not bad.
Most army jobs. Your bog standard 18 year old infantry rifleman with no other skills, no GCSEs, zero work or life experience is on £27k a year starting salary. Assuming you hang around for five years, don’t promote, don’t do any courses, don’t do anything to improve, you’re on £33k, as your salary goes up a thousand pounds a year or so just from seniority. On top of that, you get extra money if you’re away from base for more than 7 days, you get more money if that’s abroad, and you get an extra £3.5k a year if you pick a unit posted to Northern Ireland. You get subsidized (if not great) housing and food, plus lots of sport and education allowances.
Frankly, it’s just about the best package available if you’re young and don’t have a trade. Why? Because no one wants to do it. Relative to the rest of society the army package has gotten better and better (in real terms it’s gotten worse, but so has all of Britain) in the last 10-15 years because people just aren’t interested in joining and the army is desperate for privates. Fine for officers by and large, and specialists abs technicians isn’t too bad. But just your basic grunts? No one wants to do it.
Clean up for hoarders or crime scenes
Get into politics, never seen a struggling M.P. Just leave your honesty and morals at home
Dry stone walling. It’s not easy to get into, as you will need someone to teach you, maybe be an apprentice. But if you can get that, and you enjoy working in open fields whilst It pisses it down, then you can earn good money doing it.
Costs to rebuild a knocked down farm wall are about £50m^2, upto about £70 where I am. I am not very good at walling (learned on the farm) and I can do about 1m every 2 hours. So that would be £25ph. The costs are often higher if you have to take the wall right back to the footings and basically start from scratch.
However, I have seen charges for new walls, built in a front garden of a property to be as high as £250m^2. Yes you have to make it look prettier and yes you may have to do extras like cementing the toppers on, but that’s insane money for someone who is proficient. You could be looking at £7k in labour for a brand new dry stone wall, that’s 1.5m high by 10m long.
Perhaps not absurdly well, but you can earn a very good wage, with very little outgoings (all you need is a hammer, chisel and a pair of gloves for repairs) and work pretty much whenever you want.
Cobol software engineer. The language has been dead for decades for good reasons but banks and military applications are too afraid to update the whole thing to more modern languages and these things need maintenance and new features.
Anything nights? Because not many people wanna do it
Politician only like 4 people even run for a single position.
I once contemplated a job offer as a night shift mortuary assistant. It was a long time ago and back then they were allowed to work alone. Embalming bodies. Alone. At night.
At the time I was earning 3 quid an hour on a till.
This paid £35 an hour.
My old man worked on rigs in Nigeria converting diesel to whatever or something on the oil rigs… He needed an escort from the airport to the rigs…. The danger of them being kidnapped or shot before they even arrived at the dangerous job was real.
A slightly different take on the question – Prostitute?
I did a car finance application for a dude who was a self employed mobile embalmer in the UK. He was making about 60k a year. He was telling me about how he didn’t know if he was going to have a busy week or not, as he had 3 “pending deceased” in the hospital
I know a guy who was a diver, worked on oil rigs and stuff. He earned a shit load of money but he was also strange with it and told some very eerie stories about seeing things underwater in the blackness. You really have to be a bit special to do that job.
The husband of an in-law did something to do with railway track engineering.
The company decided he was too expensive and laid him off.
He started his own railways track engineering contracting firm, staff of one, and charged his own company a daily rate that worked out at many times his old salary.