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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!"
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.
Judging from the Flash advert on the page, CHIROPRACTOR might be a promising career! Ouch!
"Ask me about Loom"
Honestly, what could more ensure stagnation of a job title more than appearing on a top ten list!? I'm sure three of those jobs really will be rising in demand, but I'm not telling which three.
-pyrrho
When you eschew a profession because you don't like what is going on in that part of the industry, you throw away a chance to make a difference from within.
/. or sending a few pennies to the EFF. If you really want to make a difference, study the law, pass the bar, put yourself in the position to affect change.
You aren't going to change things sitting on your ass posting on
I have been pwned because my
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.
our IP Lawyer's (2) account for 20% of my company's yearly revenue.
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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.
Exactly what is ethically dubious about being a dataminer ? Isn't it like saying that guns are ethically dubious ? Datamining as a profession has nothing to do with what use the mined information is put to.. or how the information was collected. A data miner is a specialized professional like any other engineer. I would hope that you would be a tad bit more careful before you make such irresponsible statements.
My pick would have to be inmate.
tcd004
Bioinformatician, that is one COOL name.
Imagine going to shin-digs
"Hello, what line of work are you in?"
"Why, I'm a Bioinformatician?"
Blond: "oh you work with dead people?"
Brunette: "Have you seen the latest in cardio
replication induced with a neuron processor?"
;) that aside...
How benficial are these results? Who's to say it won't change in 5 years? What makes these hot, amount of money you can make?
The hottest job is the one that make you the most happiest...
In no particular order:
1) Roofing contractor
2) Fireman
3) Chimney sweep
4) Blast furnance technician
5) Nuclear plant core cleaner.
6) Boiler stoker
7) Oven inspector.
8) Exhaust system specialist
9) Bomb squad technicial
10) Supervisor in Hell
Is this the guys who show up to the Enron crime scene.
Next week on CSI:Accountantcy the team will look at A.Anderson and then the Bush budget
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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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I'm not suprised that Bush (or the Fox News Facists) hasn't sent him to Cuba since he is a follower of the Nation of Islam.
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"Professional" usually implies some sort of income is derived from your profession. I am a college graduate, but I'd like to be gainfully unemployed. How do you make money?
I have been pwned because my
why oh why did I give up on being an Adventure Travel Guide to be a web designer?
Because you had no native talent for actual programming?
[dodging thrown objects]
Eh, what do I know. I got an English degree.
--saint
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.
How exactly is Data Mining of "dubious ethical value"?
As for every job there may be ethical or unethical tasks to perform or method to pursue the job's goals. But Data Mining seems a potentially valuable activity. I do research in social sciences and finding the right data for our projects is always a challenging and time consuming task.
I don't know if there is room for such specialized activity, but if such a profession emerges I don't see why it should be unethical on principle.
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.
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I see the theme to the next ten Budweiser commercials here ;-)
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Bioinformatics sounds hot and it's certainly getting the hell hyped out of it at the moment, but from first hand experience, it can get pretty frustrating at times. What they don't mention in any of the glowing reports on the industry is the frequent brain explosions than can be caused by putting biologists and computer scientists in the same room for prolonged periods of time. Maybe it's just where I work and everyone's an asshole (or I'm an asshole), but trying to get the researchers and the computer guys to agree on anything is a fucking nightmare.
I guess this is the same in any branch of IT (instead of biologists and programmers each trying to clobber each other into submission, it's your banker or manufacturing customer)...and I guess I'm especially sensitive to it at the moment. Oh well...something for newbies into the field to think about.
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.
Yes, I could see there being a job as a guide, but it would seem to be a rather "cold" career now :-)
Maybe the "hot" version is being an "Everquest Travel Guide" :-)
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Any one of these markets could collapse at any time and many look like those who hold the jobs command such high salaries becasue they are fairly obscure.
Make a note of what happened to those who started their CS education when programming was the "hot job" in '98 and '99.
Soesn't seem quite so hot?
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
What do they do, count body parts? *ewww*
ESR is not an economist.
I have been pwned because my
10. Paper shredder
9. presidential intern
8. respiratory infection nurse
7. experimental microbiologist
6. teacher (never makes any list, except for lowest paid/hardest working)
5. suicide bomber
4. Real World participant
3. political leader
2. President of Accounting
and the number 1 thing that didn't make the list...
1. bank manager for offshore accounts (not FDIC insurred)
Why read the article when I can just make up a snap judgement?
little under three years experience. unemployed almost four months now. where are those jobs they were talking about?
four-oh-four
Not only does "fad" career selection almost guarantee an unhappy life, it's not necessarily going to lead to financial "success" either -- just ask all the people who got into Technology 'cos it was "hot" a few years ago and can now not find a job...
I am not a number! I am a man! And don't you
Just remember that you'll be spending at least 1/3 of your hours for those next 30+ years plugging away at work. If you pick something based on it's *supposed* high demand, that's fine, but don't expect to enjoy going to work. You might wind up becoming another whiner who is always bitching about their job.
Another thing to keep in mind is that these predictions are made by quite fallible human beings. They're akin to the sub-.200 hitters of the technology forecasting crowd.
Go with your passion, and your life will be a lot richer and more fulfilling. I'm sure such a sentiment isn't cynical enough for many people out there, but in my experience, it's true.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
I took a personality test once. The results were negative.
I have been pwned because my
I admit I do not read Scientific America, but I do watch MTV and I happen to know of a rich deposit of Platinum. Just check around Rapper's necks. They have tons of platinum.
Okay, this was a stupid post. Stupid post! Thus I post anonymously!
Hot jobs tend to be only hot in the short term. It's like deciding, right now, what clothes you are going to wear the rest of your life based on what is currently hot. Look at the web deseigners that only learned web deseign. They had a good run but unless they picked up more mainstream computing skills along the way they are probably looking for a job. Now they are lokking at someone in thier late twnties/ early thirties with a skill that has a glut of qualified individuals - all because it was the "hot job" of the moment. Now take a database person. It's not a hot job and probably never will be a hot job (i'm not talking data mining but deseigning/implementing/maintaining SQL databases). On the other hand demand is pretty high and will continue to be pretty high.
It is important to remember when making these lists they look at NOW, not the long term viability of the job.
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I can't believe that being a Pointy Haired Boss didn't make the list. Whodathunkit?...
I believe that the existence of women is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
Never fight naked, unless you're in prison...
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.
Things I was unaware of until the article's author enlightened me:
- Bioinformatics == Computational Pharmacokinetics
- Designing sophisticated algorithms requires only "familiarity with computer technologies" (I suppose being a professional astronomer requires only "familiarity with telescope technologies" too)
- Bioinformaticians need graduate training in a biological science. This one scared the heck outta me... I *thought* I was a bioinformatician, but my graduate training is in computer science. Come to think of it... the great majority of 'bioinformaticians' I've met at conferences were CS grads. I must have been tricked into attending those fake bioinformatics conferences...
- Journalists don't need to bother researching or providing pesky 'facts' in their articles anymore. Its OK to just make stuff up... right off the top of your head.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
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Let's see, I'm a software contractor now so I could switch that over to AI programming, but I also ride my bike to work through rush hour traffic in Boston every morning, so could I be an Adventure Travel Guide too?
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
I'm sorry, but that just conjures images of spammers being killed by claymores.
Now *that's* a job I'd love to have, especially if they let you go in at close range to finish 'em off.
Well, except for the rare athletic, daring, and adventurous ChemE (all three of them ;), maybe being an Adventure Guide is out...
:(
But ChemEs can do the rest!
Seriously, graduating with a ChemE degree, I can pick from four of the 'hot' jobs listed:
IP Lawyer, Bioinformatician, Fuel Cells, or Data Mining.
Really, data mining & bioinformatics are basically the same. Bioinformatics assumes you have a working knowledge of biology & biochemistry and can apply it to computer programming. But, it is much easier to learn biology than it is to learn data mining. But, without a very good mathematical background (Partial Diff Eqs, etc), you can kiss being an exceptional data miner out the window.
People underestimate the utility of mathematics.
Salis
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Berto
I really hate the over-inflated titles that computer mechanics keep giving themselves. I'm sick of seeing business cards for Software Engineers and Network Architects.
So what's next? Computer Surgeon? Information Astronaut? Why not go the whole nine yards and call yourself a Software Deity or Network Visionary?
I want to see some realism in titles. The person paid to maintain legacy COBOL should be called a Code Janitor. The person who designs networks should be called a Network Foreman. And anybody who writes code should be called a Software Author.
But please, enough with the self-aggrandizing titles.
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My wife cares for highly disable individuals including quad, tetra- and paraplegic individuals.
She's required to perform simple tasks such as toileting, showering, preparing and feeding of meals. Sounds easy? Wrong!
Other things she has to do include manual extractions (removing faeces from the bowel by hand), changing leg bags, removal and fitting of tampons, and insertion of catheters.
One of the problems with profoundly disabled people is that having someone do all this stuff while you're so powerless can be a source of shame. Additionally, newly disabled people can have personality problems - this is usually a male thing because their penis's do not function correctly so they usually verbalize their aggression. Quadraplegics are usually living on borrowed time mainly die to kidney failure.
So she doesn't only have to be competent to do all the physical work, but she also has to be acutely aware of the mental needs of the patient so they don't feed shame or embarresment or anything else negative.
Think about it for a second. Could you keep someones mind off what was going on while you were inserting a tube in their penis?
So don't think it's a 'hot' job. It's a job that requires knowledge, skill, and above all - compassion.
How can anyone accuratly predict what the top 10 jobs will be in this decade. Does anyone have a list of so-called hot jobs from 1992? I doubt they mentioned anything dealing with e-commerce.
Uninformed people complain about software patents because they are "bad." No one ever quantifies "bad" or defines "bad." They simply label patents as "bad." What these people reason from is the flawed premise that because something is easy to copy (i.e. - I can write code to do that) that it is unworthy of protection. They could not be further from the truth.
Without IP laws there will be no innovation. History discloses thousands of inventions that are easy to copy. It is precisely because someone CAN copy an invention, getting the benefits without the development costs incurred by the original inventor that the patent and other IP laws exist.
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.
Laws affecting technology will always be bad until enough techies become lawyers.
When I was a lad, I was quite good at catching lizards and spiders and creepy crawly things. Fifteen years after I decide on a career in IT, I tune into Animal Planet and they've got several folks on there who make a living catching the biggest damn lizards you've ever seen, along with all sorts of other creepy crawly things. If ONLY someone had TOLD me!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
(i purposefully chose a link that should display only comments, not the actual question. The many comments of "you're screwed, we're in a recession" are more telling than someone asking about certs.)
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Everyone can take the hot jobs and shove them up their ass.
If you want some real jobs with growth potential for the future, here's a real list.
1.Terrorist
2.Undertaker
3.Disney Congresswhore
4.Presidential Oil Rig Tech
5.Media Manipulator
6.Political Aide Professional Killer
7.Infomercial Producer
8.College Athlete
9.Fuck You
10.Hot Jobs List Maker
Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life.
Mod it up your ass, I'm pegged at 50.
I want to be a Corporate Visionary Strategist, so I can prove my mom wrong -- you can get paid for daydreaming all day.
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I hate to inject any rationality into an empty jibe but I am not evil or dubious, for the most part. Most lawyers are merely professionals paid to represent the interests of their employers, whoever they may be. Some employers [fill in your favourite hate figures here] are aggressive cynical corrupt and manipulative and they will use the law to enforce those objectives. Lawyers are the merely the tools for doing that and any lawyer who takes his job seriously will do it to the best of his ability, I do.
Equally of course lawyers like everyone else have a moral framework and lawyers values differ. Many lawyers do their training and do not ever get the opportunity to see the wider picture. This happens because you are trained in your discipline and get a job with a partnership or a firm and become inculcated in the traditions and value of your industrial sector. Certain things become a given because they become a habit: "patents are useful to us so they must be generally good." "Trademarks are very valuable so we must prevent anyone useing them in ways we dislike lest they become less valuable" etc., etc. Most IP lawyers are taught policy issues and legal history but they are not, in my experience, given much academic prominence. I tend to think also they are too inclined to be implicity pro- rights holders but without seeing the wider social context. This is a failing of universities and to some extent,through a lack of introspection in the profession itself.
Lawyers like all members of society vary in their integrity: at the bottom of the market you will find the ambulance chaser and the mafia conciliere(sp?) but even these fellows are just trying to make a living in a cut throat difficult world, by contrast geeks have been know to accept jobs with Microsoft and the *IAA. Many American lawyers I know will not act improperly and will not lie and twist the truth for clients. And even those unethical lawyers with dubious morals will know that there can be a market value in acting ethically.
It should also be said that it is a peculiarly American thing to hate lawyers so much, in my country, England, and I belive Europe it is a high prestige and entirely respectable job. The difference arises in part because of the different charging structure of the professions. In America there is the contingency fee which often gives lawyers a personal stake in the case and this has distorted the ethics of some classes of practitioner. In the UK and Europe we are more likely to be disspationate advisors, although regretably UK practise is being polluted by American values and in some respects we may be slowly sliding into the American cesspool.
There are also certainly double standards here: I have helped a number of free/OpenSource groups on some high profile IP issues such as the DMCA, p2p ,IP, libel, etc. and everyone just loves my free advice. But the moment I act for a corporate group against warez groups or a legitimate IP issue I am slime. IP is, with the exception of patents, a useful and proper asset to industry providing it is reasonably constrained and not distorted in favour of any one group
if you really must carp at least choose the most suitable target: vested interests such as corporate groups and corrupt government. They provide the source of almost all the abberant behaviour you hate.
Taking a dig at lawyers is just cheap. [nik removed due to DMCA violation]
-he who laughs last, is a bit slow.
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All we ever hear about are obviously bogus software patents--ones that ignoring the "software" issue, are just new patents on old ideas. Do you have some examples of good software patents, describing a new, non-obvious software invention? Either ones you've worked on or just others you've run across...
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Benjamin Coates
Do you want to work the off-shift hours and the weekends - like retail... or you can work in one of those assembly line - like pharmacy's. Oh, and the one's working at the hospitals... they just love being dissed by the doctors all the time.
Not as glorious career as it may seem.
See, CNE, MCSE, the crop of lawyers that graduated in the 90s etc. etc.
Display some adaptability.
Get an engineering degree, this will allow you to enter nearly any field. if yoy want to continue in the tech field get your ms/phd in engineering, but if you want to make more money and can read and write well or are interested in managing people, get your law degree or mba.
Very few engineers enter these areas, and you can make aton of money. Your engineering degree shows that you can think rationally and logically, skills which apply to other areas than design.
Most engineers aren't engineers their whole lives, at some point they move on to management, as your knowledge isn't as up to date (unless you keep it up to date via classes degrees etc). Getting an advanced degree in something else just opens more doors.
Bring back the old version of slashdot.
I have to agree with you on one point...the software engineer title. I spent 4 years in school as a computer engineer only to come out and be working with lots of CS majors who called themselves software engineers. I feel like 'engineer' is a function of your training, similar to a doctor or a lawyer. Different mindset, different coursework. I think it's an earned title.
--trb
I remember starting college... They said that 50% (maybe higher) of the jobs that we would take upon graduation had not even been invented yet. I have certainly found this true. You always have to keep teaching yourself new things to stay on top.
What you love can always change.
Too bad patent examiner didn't make their list. Eisntein would be proud.
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