Boyes - Cool careers A Different Way to Find Your Perfect Job

What could be cooler than knowing about things before everyone else? Throw in a little adventure, travel to exotic places and your career will be top of the party gossip.

Here are a bunch of cool careers for people who like to get to the bottom of events, gossip, or uncover international, criminal or business secrets.

Money, money, money. Some people just to want to be rich, and thats ok. Some of the highest achievers on the planet are motivated by wealth rather than altruism.

Is it enough to have a steady income that grows over time, or do you want more? Maybe you just want to be a little bit better off than your friends and family, pay all your bills and save for a rainy day. Do you yearn for a life of luxury? Do you have debts to pay off in a hurry? How long are you prepared to wait for the rewards from all your hard work? Or perhaps you want to buy a house mortgage free, drink champagne every day and take holidays in the worlds top resorts.

These are the careers that will make you rich.

Cool courses that will make you rich

Getting rich is a habit that begins young. Start by thinking early on about what you study. According to a recent study, the earning power of your degree varies by more than 300,000 depending on what you study at university. These are some of the courses that will earn you the most in your career:

1. Medicine
2. Engineering
3. Maths and computer science
4. Environmental and physical science
5. Architecture
6. Business
7. Social science and law

   And just so you know, some of the courses that will earn you less than average in your career are:

8. Biosciences
9. European languages
10. Humanities
11. Arts

I need to pay off my debts

I just want to earn more than my friends

I dont care what I do as long as it is well paid

If this is you, what careers are out there that hit the cool bar purely through the potential for generating a fat wad of cash?

Sports Coach A top sports coach can travel all over the world and make a six or even seven-figure salary. His more ordinary cousin, the Personal Trainer, can still make good money though at a significantly reduced level. The average personal trainer at a gym makes about 30,000 but, if you get into management and set up a personal training business with several trainers, expect to see your earnings rise rapidly.

Commercial Real Estate Outside the world of selling houses, the job of leasing and managing commercial properties can pull in big bucks. Real-estate developers need heads of construction, sales managers and general managers.

Council Chief Executive In the financial year 2005-2006, two hundred local council employees earned more than 100,000. The top-earning chief executive was in London and earned nearly 230,000. As a comparison, the Prime Minister earned 186,429.

Advertising Professional Advertising professionals, such as account managers, product managers and creative directors, can expect to have a good lifestyle with their earnings.

Technical Writer If you can develop a specialisation, for example, in professional writing for the financial or software industry, technical writing jobs can be well paid. A good technical writer can take a complex subject, such as pension or high-tech issues, and make it understandable to a lay reader. Many of these positions are freelance.

Professional Coach

Business and life coaches (life trainers rather than body trainers) can be even better paid. It seems that we are willing to pay more to have our relationships and career sorted out than we are to have our bodies toned. The top salaries are still in the States where the fashion started - about 20 per cent of coaches there earn six figure incomes, according to estimates from industry watchers. Although various professional associations are being started, no special degree or training is required. The key to six-figure success in coaching is finding a speciality and sticking with it.

American Casino Manager

A casino general manager isnt quite all it looks like in all those films about Las Vegas, but your responsibility is rewarded with a good salary. The general manager (GM) of a casino takes care of the gambling business of an operation and also any restaurants and hotel associated with it. Its a people business so youll need to be a good manager, be able to get results at the bottom line and, also, to understand customer service. Most casinos dont work nine to five, so expect sixty-hour weeks spreading over weekends and holiday periods.

Lap Dancer If you want to earn money in a hurry, lap dancing is seen as a popular way to get cash. It isnt always the dead cert it seems, though. Lap dancers usually pay the club a fee for each shift that they work, so could make a loss. However, top girls in top city venues can make hundreds of pounds a night. High-class escorts can earn 1,000 a night or more.

One way to really safeguard your future is to aim to earn over 100,000 a year. Even with tax, youll be able to save money, tackle the property market with a smile on your face, and hold your head up high amongst your peers.

If you reach that 100,000 a year mark, youll be among the privileged few. Less than half a per cent of people in the UK earn a six-figure salary. In fact, in 2006, the median weekly pay for full-time employees was under 500 a week, and the median for female employees was even less. Earnings in London are higher, and lower in the northeast of England. But, just because these salaries are unusual, it doesnt mean that they are impossible to obtain. You dont always need a mass of qualifications to earn a lot either. Often experience and drive will get you to the six-figure mark as quickly as a degree.

In truth, many of those who reach six figures go on to earn much, much more. Some earn millions out of a combination of salary, bonus and stocks, often with other perks thrown in as well. So, how can you beat the odds and make sure you get to be the person who earns six figures or more?

Private Dentist All those British bad teeth have to be rectified somewhere and the money for those new veneers goes straight into a six-figure salary.

Surgeon Youll need steady hands and high level medical skills to be a surgeon, but all those years of training will pay off in personal income terms.

Petroleum Engineer Where there is energy there has always been wealth. From the oil barons of yesteryear to engineers today, a high income is there for the taking.

Lawyer We all know the high hourly rates a lawyer can charge. It is no urban myth: lawyers do indeed make pots of money.

Company Director The top earners in the UK are company directors. In fact, for a good number theirs arent just six-figure but seven-figure salaries. The CEO of a top company like Marks & Spencer or Tesco will have a total salary package of well over a million. Even in the public sector, the CEO of a company like Network Rail walks off with over half a million.

Doctor Doctors are one of the best-paid professions in the UK. The average GPs salary is now over 80,000 and many hit the six-figure mark

Head Teacher If you look at the bare figures this looks like a good choice. But beware, though a few head teachers can earn over 100,000, some earn only 40,000.

Footballer If you become a top footballer, you can expect more, more, more. Not only will you rake in an impressively huge salary, but also bonuses and, of course, lucrative sponsorship deals. David Beckham has reputedly made over 13 million from his salary and business deals. Your career may be as short as those in that other notoriously rich yet fickle profession, pop singing, but invest well and you will not only make money quickly but also continue to lead a champagne lifestyle for a long time. Dont forget the