By:Phillo Gabriel
A whopping four of the top nine jobs on the list are in the medical field. Various others that made the top 20 overlap with the medical field.
bookkeepers, secretaries, and receptionists and the like.) If you have any interest, any aptitude at all for working in the health care field, your prospects for employment are excellent.
2. Jobs that can't be outsourced are more likely to increase.
Note how many of the jobs on the list require being physically present. One partial exception is number 3 on the list, "customer service representatives." A certain percentage of those jobs can be outsourced, if we're talking about phone and e-mail customer service. English-speakers (or alarmingly often, people who only fit
2. Jobs that can't be outsourced are more likely to increase.
Note how many of the jobs on the list require being physically present. One partial exception is number 3 on the list, "customer service representatives." A certain percentage of those jobs can be outsourced, if we're talking about phone and e-mail customer service. English-speakers (or alarmingly often, people who only fit
in that category in the loosest sense) located anywhere in the world are now pegged to do those jobs.
But for the most part, the jobs that are increasing the fastest are those one has to be present to do. To be an in-home health care worker, to work the counter at a fast food restaurant, to do the landscaping on a piece of property, one has to be physically at that location, not merely connected in some cyber/virtual/high tech/telecommunications/computer manner from some other country or continent.
3. High tech jobs don't fare as well as expected.
If you were to ask people on the street who've never seen this data what jobs they think are increasing the fastest, probably most would pick all or mostly computer and technology-related jobs—"software this," "computer that," "systems whatever."
But that's not reflected at all on the actual list. Granted, elementary school teachers, accountants, office clerks, etc. use computers and related technology as tools in their work, but you have to go all the way down to number 18, "computer software engineers, applications," to find a truly "tech" job.
4. "Low end" jobs are increasing the most.
Of the 20 occupational categories on the list, only five typically require as much as a bachelor's degree, and only one or at most two typically require more education than a bachelor's degree. Zero of the 20 pay median annual full time wages of $100,000 or more. Only five pay even $50,000. Seven pay less than $25,000. So we're talking about a lot of jobs where even people who are lucky enough to be employed will likely be doing plenty of moonlighting, need a partner also working full time, have to scrape just to get by, or multiple of the above.
But for the most part, the jobs that are increasing the fastest are those one has to be present to do. To be an in-home health care worker, to work the counter at a fast food restaurant, to do the landscaping on a piece of property, one has to be physically at that location, not merely connected in some cyber/virtual/high tech/telecommunications/computer manner from some other country or continent.
3. High tech jobs don't fare as well as expected.
If you were to ask people on the street who've never seen this data what jobs they think are increasing the fastest, probably most would pick all or mostly computer and technology-related jobs—"software this," "computer that," "systems whatever."
But that's not reflected at all on the actual list. Granted, elementary school teachers, accountants, office clerks, etc. use computers and related technology as tools in their work, but you have to go all the way down to number 18, "computer software engineers, applications," to find a truly "tech" job.
4. "Low end" jobs are increasing the most.
Of the 20 occupational categories on the list, only five typically require as much as a bachelor's degree, and only one or at most two typically require more education than a bachelor's degree. Zero of the 20 pay median annual full time wages of $100,000 or more. Only five pay even $50,000. Seven pay less than $25,000. So we're talking about a lot of jobs where even people who are lucky enough to be employed will likely be doing plenty of moonlighting, need a partner also working full time, have to scrape just to get by, or multiple of the above.
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