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Smart Money Picks 10 Rising Careers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-to-do dept.

jonathanjo writes "Smart Money announces the ten hot jobs they see rising in the next decade. Among them, many familiar to slashdotters (wireless engineer) and several of those are of dubious ethical value (data miner, IP lawyer). "Forensic Accountant" even made accounting sound cool! But why oh why did I give up on being an Adventure Travel Guide to be a web designer? D'ohh!"

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  1. My advice. by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't go anywhere near the "top 10". 5 million high school and college guidance counselors will be herding the sheep into those fields in a few months. You could be a savant in one of those fields, and it won't make a damn bit of difference if the resume is lost in the flood.

  2. Fuel-Cells being overhyped by lkaos · · Score: 2, Informative

    I seem to remember reading a Scientic America article a while back (I'd link but the charge for old article IIRC) about fuel cells and the problems with mass producing them.

    They work great and all for the space station and other speciality circumstances but they rely on a platinum core and therefore are quite expensive. Moreover, they had some statistics regardding how there simply wasn't enough platinum in the world (since it is so rare) for even the small amount needed for fuel cells if they were to go in every car.

    I remember reading too that it was quite unlikely that any other element possessed similiar enough properties to build a fuel cell with too.

    So I think it is a tad premature to say Fuel-Cell Engineering is going to be the next "hot job."

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  3. Platinum?no...Borax... by BerserkDog · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you truly read "Scientific American"->you'd have read the article in the May 2002 issue in the "Innovations" section about a company called "Millenium Cell". They've come up with a clever fuel cell system utilizing Borax which reacts with a catalyst to produce the hydrogen needed. This combo makes it much safer to fuel up your vehicle or whatever else you're powering.

  4. Cab Rank Rule by JWhitlock · · Score: 5, Informative
    According to this website (about midway down),
    There is also a professional rule among barristers, known as the 'cab-rank rule', which is intended to prevent them taking on only those cases which they think they will win. The rule says, in effect, that provided a barrister has sufficient time and the necessary expertise, he or she will take on any case which is offered; like a taxi-cab at a rank.
    From this site:
    Chief Justice Phillips: The Cab Rank Rule shortly stated, is that it's the advocate's duty to act for and to do the very best for a client regardless of any personal feelings, and it really has its origins in the conduct and writings of a very famous 18th Century advocate in England, Thomas Erskine. Erskine was briefed to defend the famous pamphleteer Thomas Paine who was charged with sedition because he'd written some very rude things about the King.

    Erskine thoroughly disapproved of Paine and his writings but he was determined to represent him because he thought it was his duty to do so. In fact the King put a lot of pressure on Erskine to return the brief, and he refused, and the King punished him because he removed from him a very valuable office that he held of Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales.

    And I think, although other people had been acting in a similar way up to that time, it was Erskine's eminence - he was the most brilliant English advocate of the 18th Century - which brought about the universal acceptance of this ethical duty.

    It wasn't easy to find this info - most web sites that use the term are for lawyers, and assume that they learned the term at some point in law school. At this point, I will resist the temptation to say that any lawyer would define the term for you, for a small hourly fee.
  5. Re:"Dubious Ethical Value" by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lawyers that represent clients in the wrong, are in the wrong themselves. No excuses.

    There is an unfortunate level of ignorance present on slashdot regarding the role of a lawyer in society. The fact of the matter is that it is the job of a lawyer to be an advocate, that is to put forward the interests of his client. His opponent likewise has the same job. It is up to the judiciary and legal system to establish the guidelines for deciding the right and wrong in a case, NOT the lawyer. It is by this system that an individual gets his voice heard.

    Perhaps many lawyers defend causes that you don't like, however the fact of the matter is that without this tension in the advesarial process we have for our legal system both sides of the case would not get fairly heard.

  6. Everyone - quick!! by Mr.+Foogle · · Score: 2, Informative
    Everybody, quick, stampede off to school and learn the skills you'll need to succeed at any of these jobs. You DON'T need to have passion for what you do - the money will be soooo good.

    See, CNE, MCSE, the crop of lawyers that graduated in the 90s etc. etc.

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