Trades: I constantly hear there's a lack of qualified electricians/welders/plumbers. Given the prices they charge I suspect they're not lying. @SaintofKenosha can probably give you more guidance on this than I possibly could. Take the shitty janitor job and upskill on the side: You can earn a decent degree in something like computer science online for around $18,000 over 3 or so years, so $3,000 per semester. PM me for details if you're interested. Don't bother with US universities, they're all overpriced relative to what they actually deliver. Don't bother with a student loan. If you do go this route it's important to focus on a professional path that doesn't demand you live in a lefty metropolis virtue signalling to other lefties. Take a shitty job in a franchise somewhere like McDonalds. Fast food and retail usually have paths for serious employees to gain management experience and work their way up the ladder. Those kinds of companies are used to dealing with high staff turnover, so staff that are actually willing to commit to working there long term are usually able to earn higher wages and gain training. In some cases they even have MBA type programs built in. Downside is that big megacorps like that will inevitably have jewish diversity policies, and they'll get worse the higher you go. I'd see this as a "do it for ten to fifteen years then move on" type of job. Merchant marine. The US has protectionist policies when it comes to US shipping and crews, so you can access a bunch of crew positions that would normally be filled by philippinos and chinese in other countries. I gather you'll need to start off on smaller vessels, like fishing boats, before you'll be offered a place on merchant ships. If you want to go the officer route you'll probably need to attend a professional training academy of some kind to qualify. They're not unaffordable, they're similar in complexity and price to qualifying as a pilot. I gather there's a *lot* of competition for officer jobs though, so you might be better off going the ABS route. Might be worth looking into options in primary economic activities also (farming, mining, herding, fishing etc.). I have little contact with farming businesses in general, and none in the US, so I don't know exactly how you'd get started, but I know there's a lot of seasonal work in those kinds of businesses. For example, a friend of mine once spent three months gutting fish in Alaska during one of their fishing seasons. He said the guys doing it regularly were able to earn a years' living expenses in three months, which isn't as amazing as it sounds, but it's still not bad. Once you build up experience you might be able to qualify for loans to start your own business. The major upside to this kind of option is that those kinds of communities tend to be very white and very conservative.s