No degree, no worries - 50 years at AT&T for 68 year old engineer

[nykorn]

You can do some language teaching work, restricted to online, without any sort of degree, if anything for teaching English you need a "120 hour TEFL certificate" to get hired (which I actually finished in 7 hours online). If you can somehow wrangle up 3 or more years of experience and 3-5 work references, some workplaces and countries will waive the degree requirement, but it is almost impossible to get an actual official teaching job (not a "tutoring" job, which may not count) without any degree. Some countries don't count any sort of self-employment or part-time jobs as real work experience, you need to have documented full-time work. And, most teaching jobs pay peanuts and treat teachers terribly, I wish it weren't the case. I know a few teachers who make big bucks, one's been teaching for over 20 years in ghettos (which pay much more), another is a Hungarian who moved to teach English in a poor area of Vietnam but is also getting free board, rent and a small salary to be the live-in teacher for a Vietnamese family there on top of her normal teaching job, and a third is an Icelander who moved to China to teach English and learned fluent Chinese so ended up getting paid more than double after proving Chinese proficiency.

You can often get a job in translation without a degree, but the standards have risen to an insane degree since the 80s and 90s, now they basically want native level speakers for any position, and the job market is shrinking thanks to machine translation (the big bucks are in medical and legal translation, which at least where I live you need to be a certified nurse, doctor or lawyer to do).

As for completely educationless jobs in the self-employment field, I get paid more per hour to dogsit than I've ever gotten paid at any other job. However it requires that you live in an area with people who own dogs.