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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!
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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.
My pick would have to be inmate.
tcd004
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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Exactly. Much of my decision to go to law school (I'm starting next year) was based on what I learned here on Slashdot about the infringement on our rights by the wealthy and powerful. And I picked my school because it runs The Berkman Center, which is partially responsible for both creative commons and chilling effects. I'll be able to start working on what I care about as soon as September rolls around. Few other professions afford you that opportunity.
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.
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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Bioinformatician, that is one COOL name.
:-)
Well, we are indeed extremely cool. That can't be argued
;) 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?
As people have already said, I do expect that eventually the field will be flooded now that there are actual degree programs in it. Today most of the people in bioinformatics are either biologists that have always been computer geeks (such as myself, programming Apple ]['s starting in sixth grade, but getting a doctorate in microbiology) or computer scientists who have managed to read enough biology papers to understand the subject (such as my boss).
Basically, bioinformaticians are needed because molecular biology has entered the era of large scale experiments generating gigabytes of information. The traditional way of analyzing results by hand just doesn't work anymore -- it's a similar problem to what other fields of study such as radio astronomy have been facing for some years now. The difference is that biological information is more applicable to both the human quality of life and commercial gain than astronomy and so there going to be much more data to be analyzed.
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
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?
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.
------- Sorry about the spelling, I suffer from two problems. Dyslexia makes it difficult to spell well, lazy makes it
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Shouldn't that be, "I gots an English degree"?
No, "gots" would be a dangling funkulator in that sentence. For that context, it would be "I done gots me an English degree."
Note the encasement of the "gots" by your standard funk brackets.
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--saint