YOU could earn £29,000 a year just for driving around in a little-known job – but it there’s a pretty grim catch.
A listing for the job on the Indeed website offers a rate of £14 an hour.
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If you work for eight hours a day, five days a week, that stacks up to an impressive annual salary of £29,000 a year.
But the catch lies in the nature of the job itself – working as portable toilet delivery driver.
People who do this job drop off and pick up portaloos from festivals, building sites and private events – as well as cleaning and servicing the toilets.
To do the job, you need to hold a full clean driving licence and have experience driving a 3.5 tonne vehicle.
Your income from the freelance job may fall short of £29,000, due to seasonal changes in demand for portable toilets.
At some points in the year you will be ferrying toilets all over the country – but at others, you will be left twiddling your thumbs.
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Site-Equip in Lasham, Hampshire is advertising for a full-time portable toilet service driver paid up to £14 an hour, with a raise after a year.
Driver Hire in Poole, Dorset also pays £13 an hour for “delivering and collecting portable toilets, emptying them and cleaning them”.
There are several other jobs which offer high salaries without requiring formal qualifications.
Adzuna’s Andrew Hunter said: “”A university degree is no longer the only ticket to a high paying career, as more industries look to expand their talent pools to a more diverse range of applicants and offer on the job training.
“The IT sector is a good example of this, boasting many high paying roles like scrum master, ethical hacker, and software developer open to jobseekers without a computer science qualification.”
While a degree isn’t needed for most of these jobs, there may be other requirements.
For example, you don’t need to study at university to become a commercial pilot, but you’ll usually need five GCSEs including English, Science, and Maths.
With the cost of a university education adding up to £57,000 on average, it could pay to pursue one of the high-paying careers that avoid taking on student loan debts and studying costs.
Scrum masters, who manage IT and tech projects, are earning upwards of £62,000 a year.
There are courses you can take to train as a scrum master, but there’s no strict path into the job.
Those in the following roles can also expect to earn salaries between £50,000 and £60,000 a year:
- Software developer
- Train driver
- Construction manager
- Oil Rig operative
- Security manager
- Games developer
- Project manager
Eight other jobs pay workers without formal education salaries between £43,000 and £46,000 a year:
- Buying manager
- Translator
- Accountant
- Private chef
- Army officer
- Digital marketing manager
- Landscape designer
- ChatGPT prompt engineer
