Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- pt. I. Using the job-match grid to choose a career -- pt. II. Descriptions of the top 100 careers without a four-year degree -- Actors, producers, and directors -- Agricultural workers -- Aircraft and avionics equipment mechanics and service technicians -- Armed Forces -- Artists and related workers -- Assemblers and fabricators -- Automotive body and related repairers -- Automotive service technicians and mechanics -- Barbers, cosmetologists, and other personal appearance workers -- Bill and account collectors -- Billing and posting clerks and machine operators -- Bookkeeping accounting, and auditing clerks -- Building cleaning workers -- Bus drivers -- Carpenters -- Cashiers -- Chefs, cooks, and food preparation workers -- Child care workers -- Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators -- Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians -- Communications equipment operators -- Computer scientists and database administrators -- Computer support specialists and systems administrators -- Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers -- Construction equipment operators -- Construction laborers -- Correctional officers -- Counter and rental clerks -- Customer service representatives -- Data entry and information processing workers -- Dental assistants -- Diesel service technicians and mechanics -- Dispatchers -- Drafters -- Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, and tapers -- Electrical and electronics installers and repairers -- Electricians -- Engineering technicians -- Farmers, ranchers, and agricultural managers -- File clerks -- Fire fighting occupations -- Food and beverage serving and related workers -- Food processing occupations -- Food service managers -- Gaming services occupations -- Grounds maintenance workers -- Heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers -- Industrial machinery mechanics and maintenance workers -- Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers -- Interviewers -- Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers -- Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses -- Line installers and repairers -- Machine setters, operators and tenders : metal and plastic -- Machinists -- Maintenance and repair workers, general -- Material moving occupations -- Medical assistants -- Musicians, singers, and related workers -- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides -- Office and administrative support worker supervisors and managers -- Office clerks, general -- Order clerks -- Painters and paperhangers -- Painting and coating workers, except construction and maintenance -- Paralegals and legal assistants -- Payroll and timekeeping clerks -- Personal and home care aides -- Pharmacy technicians -- Photographers -- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipe fitters, and steamfitter -- Police and detectives -- Postal service workers -- Prepress technicians and workers -- Printing machine operators -- Production, planning, and expediting clerks -- Purchasing managers, buyers, and purchasing agents -- Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers -- Radiologic technologists and technicians -- Real estate brokers and sales agents -- Receptionists and information clerks -- Registered nurses -- Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks -- Retail salespersons -- Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing -- Sales worker supervisors -- Science technicians -- Secretaries and administrative assistants -- Security guards and gaming surveillance officers -- Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks -- Social and human service assistants -- Stock clerks and order fillers -- Teacher assistants -- Teachers : self-enrichment education -- Tellers -- Textile, apparel, and furnishings occupations -- Truck drivers and driver/sales workers -- Welding, soldering, and brazing workers -- Woodworkers -- Writers and editors -- pt. III. Quick job search : seven steps to getting a good job in less time -- pt. IV. Important trends in jobs and industries -- Tomorrow's jobs -- Employment trends in major industries -- Job outlook for people who don't have a bachelor's degree.