If you're thinking about changing careers, but don't have a college degree, here are the top jobs that don't require one, based on current earnings and job-demand!

We'll count 'em down, like Casey Kasem!

5. Plumber

4. Paralegal

3. Electrician

2. Communications equipment mechanic

1. Web developer (Median salary $75,000!!!)

My favorite is at #11, which is pest control worker, also known as exterminator.  If I wasn't a deejay, that's what I'd do. In fact, I might moonlight and earn a few extra bucks! The chemicals don't bother me, and I like the outfits!

This is the time of year when my wife Lisa really shines. All our birthdays are over the next couple months, and nobody is better at making each birthday special than Lisa. Gifts, decorating, making cakes, making everybody's favorite meals, she does it all. We are very lucky! My son's 14th was yesterday.

Here's my homemade ant-moat, which so far has kept most of the ants off the hummingbird feeder. I say most, because somehow a couple have gotten through, but that's okay.

Unless the "Moses Of The Ants" comes and parts this sea of tap-water, I forsee no further ant problems.

1. Wire from an old clothes hanger

1. Mott's applesauce cup

1. Dab of caulking around hole

And the winner is (dramatic pause...) Lilac!

My daughter carefully considered all the names suggested (thanks!) and did some very scientific experiments which involved calling her to see which one she responded to best. Okay then, Lilac it is!

She's doing great! She's starting to get the idea that she'll get a little chicken-flavored dog treat if she goes to the bathroom outside, instead of on the rug by the stairs, so that's progress.

I am very, very lucky. Many good things have happened in my life, but the best is that I get to share it with the most beautiful, kind, patient and centered person I know. Lisa and I married 15 years ago today, and somehow she is even prettier now than she was back then! Yeah, I got the good end of this deal, I know!

I love people. I guess you could say I'm a "people person." But I really don't want to talk to any people in the bathroom at work. Not about work, not about kids or pets or anything. Here's the maximum length for any work-bathroom conversation, and this is for somebody I know well:

"How you doin?"

"Good."

That's it. I've even found an out-of-the way restroom in another part of the building that I've been using sometimes to avoid the restroom chit-chat. I won't tell you where it is, because then my secret will be out.