Video summary
The video outlines five specific career paths that are currently facing severe labor shortages, allowing individuals without prior experience or formal degrees to secure employment quickly. These roles include positions as dental and medical front desk staff, apartment maintenance technicians, security guards, insurance agents, and car salespeople. The core argument presented is that desperate employers in these sectors prioritize reliability and immediate availability over traditional resume qualifications like years of schooling or extensive work history. By entering these fields, job seekers can bypass the common barrier where experience is required to get hired; instead, they are given a chance to prove themselves through performance alone.
For those interested in healthcare administration without clinical duties, the front desk role offers an entry point into one of America's largest industries with starting salaries between $35,000 and $46,000 annually. The career trajectory allows for significant growth, where employees can transition from basic scheduling to billing or office management roles, potentially earning up to $65,000 within three years without a college degree. Similarly, apartment maintenance technicians often receive free or heavily discounted rent as part of their compensation package, effectively increasing their real income by eliminating housing costs and allowing them to advance into specialized trades like plumbing or electrical work over time.
The list also highlights security guard positions, which require minimal training costing under $100 in many states, making it an accessible entry-level job with a clear path for night shift premiums. Insurance sales are described as a wealth-building opportunity where agents earn commissions on new policies and recurring payments from renewals, creating a compounding income stream that can reach six figures by the third year without prior industry background. Finally, car sales is presented as a field where life experience outweighs academic credentials, with older applicants often preferred over younger graduates due to their financial maturity; this role also offers an internal career ladder into high-earning finance and insurance management positions within dealerships.
A recurring theme throughout the discussion is that while these jobs provide immediate employment, they serve as a foundation for building personal brands through content creation, such as filming "day in the life" videos which have garnered hundreds of thousands of views on platforms like YouTube. The speaker emphasizes that supply and demand currently favors job seekers, meaning gatekeeping has largely disappeared in favor of hiring anyone willing to show up reliably. Ultimately, the video concludes by encouraging viewers to leverage these accessible entry points not just for steady income but as a platform to demonstrate expertise, thereby unlocking further opportunities, higher salaries, or even full-time online businesses that compound over time rather than resetting daily.
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In this video, I'm going to give you
five jobs so desperate that they'll hire
you with no experience. And I'm going to
show you how a few of them secretly can
climb to 70, 90, even $150,000
a year. And by the way, this is coming
from someone who spent years on this
channel breaking down careers and
salaries for millions of people, and
I've heard every version of you need
experience to get experience, and I know
exactly where that rule does and does
not apply. And right now, there are
entire industries that can't fill seats,
and managers are desperate. And
desperate employers do not check
resumes, they check pulses. And that's
not an insult, it's an opportunity. And
every job on this list gets you hired
fast, hired with nothing, and a few hide
career ladders that almost nobody talks
about. Now, one warning, there is a
tidal wave of AI-generated job slop
content out there, fake lists with
made-up salaries. This one is
well-researched, sourced, and real. And
if you appreciate me making this type of
content and you want me to make more of
it in the future, then let me know by
gently cheersing that like button, and
let's jump into it right now.
Okay. So, first up, we're going to talk
about the dental and medical front
office. So, I call this one healthcare
without the blood. This might be the
most overlooked door into the biggest
industry in America, and probably the
world. Now, a good example of this is a
creator named Rachel Venn. She filmed a
day in the life working at a front desk
at a dermatology office. We're talking
phones, check-ins, the schedule, et
cetera. And that video has over 235,000
views. Let that sink in. A quarter
million people watched someone work a
front desk. She was literally just doing
what she was already going to do, but
she filmed it and posted it online and
got a quarter million people to watch
it. And there are lots of
day-in-the-life videos that are filmed
inside dental offices that have crossed
millions of views. And healthcare is the
largest employment sector in America,
and every clinic and dental office needs
someone running the front. Now, here's
what matters. This job requires no
certifications, no degree, and no
patient contact, right? So, no blood, no
drills, just the desk work. So, you're
scheduling appointments, verifying
insurance, and greeting people, which
congratulations, you probably already
know how to do that. And the front desk
is the unlocked side door into an
industry that everyone assumes requires
years of schooling. Now, the pay
typically starts about $35 to $46,000 a
year, but that's for entry-level, and
here's the ladder. You can go from front
desk to billing to office manager. And
you can be pulling anywhere from $50 to
$65,000 by year three, all without a
college degree or previous experience.
So, the front desk is the airport
control tower. It never touches a plane,
but nothing lands without it. And the
dentist can't drill, and the office
can't collect a dime unless that desk
keeps the schedule moving. So, become
the person that the whole office depends
on, and promotions will start coming to
you. So, here's how to get started.
Search Indeed tonight for medical
receptionist plus dental front desk, and
there are many listings that say no
experience necessary, and then apply
direct to small practices. They hire the
fastest, and then lead with reliability.
And then ask one question, can I
cross-train into billing? Billing is
where the raises will live. If you get
really good at medical billing, you can
make a lot of money. Now, by the way, we
made AI resources to supplement this
video. You can click them down in the
description and the pin comment below
that will help you if you get stuck on
any of the steps, or if you want to
learn more about any of these that we
mentioned in the video. All right, next
is going to be an apartment maintenance
tech. Now, this one I like to call the
free rent cheat code, cuz usually if
you're an apartment maintenance tech,
you actually live at the apartments, and
you get free rent. So, a good example of
this is a channel called Ray's Apartment
and Home Maintenance. And Ray filmed his
first day as an apartment maintenance
guy, zero experience, just learning on
camera, and the video got 173,000
views. So, 173,000
people watched a man's first day
unclogging drains. Now, property
managers are starved for techs. Broken
units don't collect rent, so an empty
maintenance job bleeds money daily. And
the job is basically just basic repairs.
Unclog the drain, patch the drywall,
swap the disposal, reset the breaker.
And honestly, these are things you can
look up on YouTube very easily how to
do. But even if you don't want to look
them up on YouTube, they'll usually
train you because they have no choice.
Now, base pay runs 37 to 50,000, but
that's not the real number. Most of
these positions come with free or
heavily discounted rent on site, and
that makes sense because if something
goes down, they're probably going to
call you. And if you live right there,
then it's going to be really easy. And
housing is the single biggest expense in
your life, and this job deletes it
immediately. And add it up, and your
real compensation is closer to 55,000 or
more. And when a job pays your salary
and your rent, you're not making 40K,
you're keeping 40K. But now let's talk
about the career ladder very quickly cuz
we don't want to just pay attention to
how much you make immediately, but how
much you can make down the line. So, if
you go from maintenance tech to
supervisor, you can be making 55 to
70,000 by year three. But the bigger
play is what the job turns you into.
Think of it like a video game skill
tree. You start with can hold a wrench,
and then every work order unlocks a new
branch like plumbing, electrical, HVAC,
etc. And if you stack enough branches,
well, you're not just a maintenance guy
anymore, you're a tradesman. And the
trades are one of the best paying, most
desperate corners of the economy. Again,
download the AI skill in the description
and the pin comment below. Tell it that
you're interested in this specific
career. It's going to ask you some
questions and interview a little bit,
and then it'll tell you exactly what to
do to land this. Now, by the way, the
trades can be very lucrative. My brother
Zach, for instance, has been in the
trades for about 30 years, and he makes
really, really good money in the trades.
But one of the downsides of the trades
is it can be pretty tough on your body.
And that's exactly what Zach was telling
me about a year ago, that he wanted to
figure out how to make money in an
alternative way, preferably online,
because the trades were pretty tough on
his body, and he also wanted to be able
to travel. And that's when I told him
that he should start a YouTube channel
and a personal brand. And his very first
video that he posted blew up, got over
800,000 views, and 29 days after posting
his first video, he had a $214 day. So,
he went from zero to a full-time income
in less than 1 month. And then 1 year
after posting his first video, he had an
$18,000 month. And I'm going to be
teaching people exactly how I helped my
brother grow his personal brand because
it's really good for making money on the
side, but it's also really good for
establishing your authority and getting
better jobs if you want to, just like
Josh did. Josh was getting invites to
join Fortune 50 and Fang companies
because of his YouTube personal brand.
So, if you want to know step-by-step
exactly how we got my brother Zach
started, click the link in the
description and pin comment below to
attend the live training that's
happening this week. All right. So, next
up is security guard. And I call this
one the $100 career card because that's
roughly the entire cost of entry into
this profession. But, here's the deal.
In most states, an unarmed guard card
takes a few days of training and costs
under 100 bucks. And that's pretty much
the entire barrier. Right? That's the
barrier to entry. Clean record, check.
Pulse, check. Guard card, check. Hired.
So, the big national companies hire
around the clock and buildings
contractually need coverage at all
times. And an empty post for many of
these companies could mean a broken
contract. So, they are desperate to hire
people. And this is one of those jobs
where you're not going to have to be
competing with other people online or
competing with people internationally.
The only people that can do these jobs
are locals. And so, there's not much
competition. Now, one thing about this
type of job is you can make a little bit
more money if you're willing to work the
night shift. So, typically pay runs
about $31,000
a year, but you can get paid more to
work the night shift. Now, before you
scoff at that number, understand what
the job actually is at most posts. It's
literally just presence. You're just
paid to be somewhere. So, think of it
like a lighthouse. It doesn't chase
ships. It stands there visible and its
existence alone prevents disasters.
That's essentially what a security guard
is. Most of the time, you're going to be
sitting there doing absolutely nothing.
So, if you want to work on stuff while
you're at work, maybe a side hustle for
instance, or potentially even a second
job, you can do that in many cases and
you can make extra money. Or you can
just entertain yourself the whole time.
Catch up on whatever your favorite TV
show is. Or you can get an online degree
while you're working. Or you can learn
even more valuable skills while you're
working, etc. etc. I think you get the
idea. So yeah, to get started again,
download the AI, tell it that you're
interested in this one, and it'll tell
you exactly how to get into it in your
specific area. Plus, it'll give you
career-wide recommendations on what you
can do to enhance your career as a
whole. Quick break. I'm going to be
doing a live training this week on how
to start YouTube step-by-step for
beginners. This is going to be for
people who want to start a channel, but
they don't know what niche to pick, what
videos to make, or how to actually get
started the right way. And it's a
completely free training, no strings
attached. In fact, I'm giving away even
more bonuses at this training. Just as
an example, I'm going to be giving away
my niche validator, which works for
ChatGPT as well as Claude skills, which
is a super valuable piece of software
where you can finally figure out what
the best niche for you is. So, do not
miss out on this training. Make sure you
sign up for it down in the description
and the pin comment below because you
only get it if you join the training.
So, if you don't join now, you might
miss out on it forever. That being said,
in the workshop, you'll get to meet me,
and you get to ask me questions
directly. So, I look forward to seeing
you. So, click the link in the
description and the pin comment below
this week. Make sure you put it on your
calendar. And if for whatever reason you
missed out on it, or you weren't able to
attend, make sure you still click that
link because we might be having
workshops in the future as well, and
you'll be the first to know about it.
So, yeah. Hope to see you there. Now,
back to our regularly scheduled
programming. All right, next is going to
be insurance sales. So, this is the W-2
that pays you twice, and the mechanism
behind that name is the most underrated
wealth machine on this entire video. So,
a good example of this is Cody Askins.
He's one of the biggest insurance sales
educators on YouTube. He has a video
called what to expect your first 90 days
as an insurance, and it is aimed at
total beginners. Has over 234,000 views.
So, there's an entire ecosystem of
channels that exist just to onboard
brand new agents, and that tells you
something because agencies are
recruiting relentlessly, and the
industry is aging out, and they'll
happily take someone with zero
background and pay for their license as
well. So, the job here is you get a
state license, might take a few weeks,
it might be a couple hundred dollars,
and in many cases the companies will
actually pay you to study for this
license and get trained for it. And then
you help people pick coverage and earn
commission on every single policy. Now,
in the first year a realistic target is
about 50,000 plus dollars, but the real
money comes from renewals. See, when
your client renews the next year, you
get paid again. And then the year after
that, you get paid again. So, you did
the work once, but you keep getting paid
year after year and your new work
compounds on top of your old work. So,
an insurance the sale that you close in
year one is still writing you checks in
year three, and this is the closest
thing to passive income inside of a W-2.
Now, you might be thinking, "Well,
Shane, people cancel their insurance
policies." Actually, most people don't
cancel their insurance policies. That's
one of the reasons why the insurance
industry is so lucrative. And that's
also why by year three many insurance
agents sit at 80 to 150,000 plus dollars
a year because their book of business
compounds while they keep selling. So,
think of it like an orchard. Year one,
you're digging holes. Year three, you're
picking fruit off of trees that you
planted while planting new ones as well.
And every other job on this list does
reset to zero every morning, at least in
terms of the money you're making
passively, but this one doesn't. Now,
you might be thinking, "Well, I'm not a
salesperson, Shane. I can't ever sell."
Well, nobody is on day one. Sales is a
learned skill and it's the most portable
one that you can get paid to practice.
And a community member of mine, Isaiah
for instance, is a vocal coach, but once
he learned to sell what he knew, he did
nearly $30,000 in a single month when he
first started with us. And he did that
by posting videos on YouTube and he
posts like one video a month and he's
making multiple tens of thousands of
dollars a month. So, the skill transfers
everywhere. Now, the way to get started
with this is again, download the AI by
clicking the link in the description and
pin comment below. Tell it you're
interested in this career specifically.
It'll ask you a few questions like where
you're located, and it'll give you
detailed personalized advice on exactly
what to do in order to get into this,
depending on where you live, etc., etc.
Now, the next one is car sales, and I
call this one the 35-year-old's revenge.
This is the one in America where being
older with no resume beats being 22 with
a degree. Now, a good example of this is
a creator named Neil Blaylock. And his
video is literally titled How to Make
$100,000 as a beginner car salesman, and
it has over 100,000 views. Now, if he
makes $1,000 per 1,000 views, which is
pretty typical if you're selling a
high-ticket product or service from your
channel, in fact, that's even on the
lower side, then he likely made over
$100,000 from this video. So, beginner,
100 grand, same sentence, and six
figures were the people clicked to
check. So, it's real, and here's why
dealerships don't care about your
resume. Turnover in car sales is
legendary. Somewhere near you right now,
a sales manager is staring at an empty
desk costing him deals daily. And he
doesn't need a resume, he needs someone
that customers actually like. So, if
you're 30, 35, 40, you've had a
mortgage, a car payment, a budget, and
you can talk to a real adult about a
real financial decision better than any
22-year-old. So, your life experience is
the resume. And typically, in your first
year, you can expect to make about 45 to
80,000 dollars, and top salesmen at good
stores typically hit about 90 to
130,000. Now, of course, you can get
much higher than that, but we're just
talking about the typical numbers here.
But let's talk about the career ladder,
because the showroom sells the car, but
the little office in the back sells the
money. It's called the F&I, the finance
and insurance, the loans, the
warranties, and the protection packages.
And F&I managers make 120 to 150,000
plus dollars a year, often more than
anyone else in the building, and that
path starts on the sales floor with no
experience. So, think of a concert. The
tickets get you in, but the merch table
is where the margin lives. The car is
the ticket, and the F&I is the merch
table. So, it's always good to know that
if you're going to go into a career,
there is a career ladder for you to
climb, and it's not just a dead end. But
here's my tough love moment for some of
you, right? Cuz some of you have spent
years telling yourself that you're too
old to start over. No, you've been one
Saturday application away from a
six-figure ladder this whole time. You
just never walked onto the lot. And if
you want to get started as a car
salesman, here's how to do it. Download
that AI, tell it you want to get started
in car sales, it'll interview you and
give you a personalized recommendation
for exactly how to get started. Plus,
it'll give you tips on how you can use
the knowledge that you already have to
start a second income or make money on
the side. what we're going to talk about
here in a moment. Because let's zoom
out, there's a pattern across every job
in this video. We're talking front
desks, maintenance rooms, night shifts,
sales floors, etc. Every one of these
doors is unlocked for the same reason.
The demand is real, and the gatekeeping
is gone. They basically need you more
than you need them, and supply and
demand is in your favor. But, did you
catch the other pattern? Almost every
example was a regular person in one of
these jobs who pointed a camera at an
ordinary workday, stuff that they
already knew how to do, and pulled 100,
200, nearly 300,000 views per video. A
receptionist, a maintenance guy, a night
security guard, etc. So, the job is the
floor, but what you learn inside is the
ceiling. And every one of these jobs
generates the thing that people are
desperately curious about, which is
experience. And that's not a theory on
this channel. A community member of
mine, Craig, is a realtor out of Montana
in his 70s. And one of his videos just
crossed over 100,000 views. He has no
media background, no fancy studio. He
literally recorded from his webcam on
his laptop. He just had real expertise,
and he pointed at the right audience
with the right strategy. So, if a man in
his 70s can do it from Montana, your
excuse just left the building. And 99%
of you need to come to the free workshop
this week, where I'm going to teach you
exactly how to grow and make your own
money from YouTube with a personal
brand. And this is something that not
only can help you make money directly,
like a second income, a side hustle,
even starting your own business, but
indirectly, it's going to grow your
authority, and it could lead to
incredible opportunities in your career.
For instance, like I mentioned before,
Josh Madakor was able to land his dream
job and they reached out to him and
these are companies where usually people
have to apply for years and they still
don't get in. That is the power of
building your own personal brand. Now,
99% of you are just going to watch my
free content, you're going to come to my
free workshop, you're going to get a ton
of value out of that and we're never
going to end up working together.
Probably 99.9. But, for the 1% or even
0.1% of you out there that wants a
hand-holding experience, you want
one-on-one mentorship, us working
directly with you or us literally just
doing the work for you. If that's what
you want, then go ahead and click the
link to book a call by clicking the link
in the description and pin comment
below. Only book this call if you're
very serious about growing and making
money on YouTube. It is quite expensive
to work with us. We're the best of the
best and we get the best results in the
industry and that's why it's not for
everyone. With that being said, check
out the video right here of exactly what
it's like to work with us by seeing
exactly how we helped my brother grow
from zero to a full-time income in less
than 1 month on YouTube.