Explores the careers available to people who love to shop, including wardrobe stylist, antiques or art dealer, and mystery shopper.

This guide walks the reader through the many options open to students interested in construction, installation, and maintenance. With detailed information on needed preparation and certification, this book gives readers a solid overview of these high-growth industries.

Discusses what types of careers are available in the area of computer science that don't necessarily require a college degree.

Discusses how you can get into building items without going to college.

This guide is an invaluable resource for any reader who has ever considered a career in fashion. Beyond the usual paths, the reader will find some interests he or she may not have previously considered, including fit modeling, public relations, and blogging.

Profiles the characteristics of and qualifications needed for fourteen jobs in the writing industry.

For readers who love to shop, whether it�s online or in stores, being able to turn that into a career might seem like the greatest possible career a person can have. This guide covers a multitude of career paths, including finance, antiques, and real estate, providing basic guidance on how to build and ultimately manage that career, all while bypassing having to get a college education. Each chapter includes interviews and accounts of professionals working in the field and additional resources for readers who are ready to jump right into a career.

Whether a reader�s passions fall in library science, genealogy, history, writing, or research, he or she will find something of interest in this extensive career guide. There are many, many career options under the broad scope of the fields of writing and research, and many of them don�t require higher education. This guide breaks down these options, offering a long list of online and off-line resources for the determined career seeker and several first-person accounts from professionals in the field.

Readers can consider careers as a gardener, sculptor, tailor, carpenter, and even doll maker. Not only can they learn how to break into these fields, but each section has a listing of resources to further their research.

All wordsmiths, both technically savvy and not, will find a foothold in this inclusive writing careers guide. Every chapter provides a specific career path and all of the information a job seeker would need to pursue it, including websites, organizations, additional reading materials, and first-person accounts from working writing professionals. And every included career path can be pursued without college, giving students of all types access to an interesting and satisfying career without the worry of paying off college loans.