Jobs without a degree

No such thing as a free lunch, unless you're well connected and know the right person who'll give you a handy number.

Most employers want productivity and value from their employees.

Sales would be my suggestion, something that has commission.

Given your current situation, walking into a job with a gross wage of €50k per year will be almost impossible.

If you where willing give yourself 5 years to work towards that I woukd suggest civil service if you didn't want to get a degree.

Would have to be for yourself (no one walks into a landscape job for 50k especially with zero experience) but that being said it's going to be difficult. You'll need to be good and possibly have to subsidise building your portfolio as no one will hire a landscaper without asking for pictures of previous work. Also it's a manual labour job and needs to be taken seriously, one injury/pulled muscle you could be right back to square one.

Also I feel like you're looking for somewhat of a unicorn; if there was plentiful jobs around paying 50k with no experience/degree required majority of them would be snapped up already.

Painter,

No degree needed,little bit of practice and youtube vids.

You'll always have work and be able to chose your hours to a certain extent.

Plus a lot of them probably get paid cash in hand.

Not so long go, insurance was lucrative without a degree.

Particularly Commercial Insurance (sales and/or service), if I had to choose one division.

Without a degree, I don't think you'll get beyond 40-ish k per year in the civil service.

I've not met a single EO appointed within the last 10 years who doesn't actually have a degree.

Sure, it's not technically needed in the job-spec. But in reality, it's very hard to get now, as they have deliberately tried to raise the workforce quality.

I know HEOs without a degree and a few APs. HEO should certainly be attainable without one.

The problem with not having a degree is that no matter what job you get you will only progress so far without it.

Let's say you get a job in a factory on a production line, you do well and are promoted to supervisor, then team lead or whatever the next level up is

Then the job for higher than team lead comes up.

But now you are in bother because Mary who is also a team lead is also going for it, and she has a degree and is just as good as you at the job.

You will miss out.

So no matter what job you find OP, also try find time to get a degree, or at least some further education, it will do you no harm.

Painting, tiling, decorating.

Low setup costs, decent pay right out of the gate, cash jobs, work to suit your lifestyle. Start out with friends and family in the evenings and weekends to get the hang of it, then use them to advertise locally for you.

Work hard, get a good reputation, hire a few young lads to help you out.