Ranking of 250 Jobs by Jobs Almanac

http://www.egguevara.com ^ | May 10, 2002 | The Jobs Almanac

[The KG9 Kid]

I'm a #4. What is this supposed to mean to me?

[RightWhale]

Don't they embalm corpses?

In the case of Enron, yes.

[Neanderthal]

"#2 is way over-rated. I'm an actuary - the profession is OK but #2???

I'm a casualty actuary (FCAS). It must be those life and pension guys that dropped us down to #2 . . .

[headsonpikes]

I think this is a ranking based on inverse relationship to physical danger, or workplace injuries.

I expect working at any of jobs #240-250 would result in result in more 'ouchies' than any in the first ten, actuary for instance. ;^)

[headsonpikes]

I've logged in British Columbia, and you're no lumberjack!! lol

[geaux]

Part of the ranking is based on how hard the job is to get and how hard it is to keep. I guess that's why pro atheletes players are so far down on the list.

[geaux]

Local radio was discussing the list, and he reviewed the different criteria used and how they were weighed. Unfortunately, I failed to grab a pen quick enough to catch it all.

[Billthedrill]

The heck I'm not! I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing, And hang around in bars.

Well, OK, I only aspire to lumberjackdom. I don't really cut down trees...

[ijcr]

This is a list of the safest jobs.

[geaux]

I don't really cut down trees.

But you skip and jump, press wild flowers, put on women's clothing, and hang around in bars? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[TomT in NJ]

I'm a casualty (reinsurance) actuary and hopefully after this past Wednesday's test, a new FCAS.

[headsonpikes]

"I cut down trees..."

That's the 'logging' part. The rest is more of a 'longing' it would appear. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Seriously, I was lucky enough to spend a few winters back in the '70s falling, bucking, and skidding to the landing a fair whack of trees in northern B.C. Was head-sawyer at a number of gyppo sawmills in the same period.

It'd be fun to swap stories of life in the bush occasionally. ;^)

And of course, how that relates to the restoration of a Free Republic! ;^)

[crystalk]

I was an FSA Actuary until 1986, and it sucked. All it did was get me talked to in a way that the management could not have talked to their lowest level file clerk, and got away with it-- and then fired.

The problem is, that that profession has become subdivided into a thousand mini-fields, and in by happenstance your experience falls into any one of them, your only possible alternate employment is in that one or two other jobs in the entire world in your mini-narrow-speciality. If neither of those two other jobs happens to be open, you might as well be a burger flipper.

What is needed is a larger field, that is less specialized, so that your work with (say) cancer patients is not deemed so exclusive that it disqualifies you from consideration for a job with (say) heart or stroke patients.

Or, like accounting, where your tax practice is not deemed SO exclusive as to make you unqualified for some other role in corporate financial management, etc.

There are only some 10,000 or fewer actuaries. Look for a profession that has at least 100,000 people in it, preferably closer to a half million or more.

[geaux]

Look for a profession that has at least 100,000 people in it, preferably closer to a half million or more.

Ugh; no thanks. I'm pretty sure I've got that now, and it sucks pretty bad as well. I'm a lawyer.

[crystalk]

A place where actors are buried.

[crystalk]

Of course this list puts a premium on avoidance of outdoor work and of anything that might bring stress or distress upon a person, such as a malpractice suit!

But really, now, a system that puts "Actuary" ahead of "Letter carrier" or "Physician" or "Nurse" or "Nurse Practitioner" or "CRNA Anesthetist" has just failed to take account of supply and demand in the marketplace, plus the ability of the person in the field to just tell his employers to STUFF IT, I am going elsewhere, into independent practice or into another place or another employer...movability, fungibility, etc which was so lacking in Actuarial.

[headsonpikes]

You could become a card-counting blackjack player. ;^)

[bandlength]

uh, how is waitress and clerk higher on the list than construction worker? (it can't be based on PAY RATES!!!!!!)

[varon]

You're a Catholic priest? Welcome to Free Republic Father! (Mother?!)

ROFLMAO

[varon]

What number is a FREEPER?