Smart Money Picks 10 Rising Careers

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!"

Comments

"Dubious Ethical Value"

[CommunistTroll]

IP Lawyer...

Sheesh, enough with the lawyer bashing already.

Lawyers are just people like the rest of us with a job to do - sometimes their clients are wrong, sometimes right.

Next time you're up against the RIAA in court, I'd like to see you decline a lawyer on the grounds that the job is of "dubious ethical value".

I know it's oh so trendy to constantly attack the legal profession, but really. Grow up.

Re:"Dubious Ethical Value"

[Xerithane]

Same thing with data mining. Data mining does not always have to do with someone finding your data. Writing data mining software is a lot of fun, at least from my experience and my opinion. Granted, I've only done it with DNA sequences and server farm metrics. But it really is fun to see what type of equations you can come up with to calculate various metrics.

I know it's oh so trendy to constantly attack the legal profession, but really. Grow up.
Do you remember where you are at? This is slashdot.

Re:"Dubious Ethical Value"

[CommunistTroll]

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

Who decides that the client is in the wrong? I would prefer to have a lawyer defend me in court to the best of his or her ability and have the judge decide whether I am guilty then be convicted by default because no lawyer will touch my case.

Look up the Cab Rank Rule at your nearest Bar Association, then read through history of lawyers defending people who everyone knew were guilty; until the trial, that is.

Until a judge and a jury of peers convicts me, I am entitled to a presumption of innocence and legal representation.

Don't forget the legal representation bit.

Don't Pick a Career Because It's "Hot"

[pnatural]

If you're going to work for the Man for 30+ years, you'd be better off finding out what you really love to do, and work towards being the best that you can be at that. Anything else says you're just in it for the money. That's certainly not a crime, but it will probably show in your work when compared to someone who really does love what they do.

Just my US $0.02.

Re:Don't Pick a Career Because It's "Hot"

[datastew]

My sentiments exactly. To succeed in a competitive job market, you need the extra edge that comes from having true passion for what you do.

Back when I was in high school, the "hot jobs" of the next ten years always included "systems analyst." Being the contrarian that I am, I predicted a glut of "systems analysts" and tried my hand at Mechanical Engineering. Only after "surviving" as a Mechanical Engineer for four years in college and three years working did I finally admit that I was hard-wired to be a systems analyst.

The moral: find what you love to do and ignore the Hot Careers lists.

Enjoyment and skills=$$

[BerserkDog]

It seems to me, that if you truly enjoy what you do and are ,indeed, proficient in your field->you're already on the right path. I'm a case-in-point to that very statement. I didn't even graduate H.S.(Overexaggerrated rebelliousness)-But, because I enjoy what I do, and am damn good at it, I bring in more than most college grads. The "Hot Job" is what you make it.

Pharmacist

[ajakk]

The one job that they didn't mention, which is EXTREMELY hot right now, is pharmacy. The booming number of elderly and the decreasing number of pharmacists has made the field extremely hot. I have even heard advertisements on the radio for pharmacists to switch to a different drug store. New pharmacists make can make aroun 90K a year.

Self-Employed

[The Cat]

Well, someone has to provide jobs, and business certainly doesn't appear up to the task.

Shoddy products, poor customer service, wasted budgets, inept management, constant layoffs. Eventually former employees will get fed up (and they probably already are) and start their own companies.

A Renaissance of Entrepreneurship is precisely what the economy needs. Not more cubicles.

Re:Dubious Ethical Value???

[Kintanon]

Flame away ... I'm expecting a karma hit. But I'll keep writing those software patents and suing the theives (yes -- THEIVES) who infringe them anyway.


No! Not 'THEIVES' you imbecile, Thieves! And the lack of IP laws didn't stop Leonardo De'Vinci from inventing a whole SHITLOAD of stuff, nor did it stop anyone before him. If you do something first and you do it best, you'll make money off of it, regardless of whether someone else copies it later. So quit bitching.

Kintanon