[geaux]

I thought this was interesting; didn't see this posted anywhere else. You can see 51 - 250 located here.

[RightWhale]

How are they ranked? Self-satisfaction, reputation, pay?

[CollegeRepublican]

Industrial Engineer is listed twice

[TomT in NJ]

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

[Happygal]

Are they 'best' or 'worst' professions?

[sphinx]

At first glance, I sure don't see much of a pattern ....

[Centurion2000]

Nice to see that my job is listed as number 3 but as my boss "Darth Carter" would say, "Where are the F%^&ing metrics ??"

[Revolting cat!]

The list lacks credibility: I don't see 'professional FReeper' on it!

[Lady Jag]

I wonder if Dubya knows that his current job ranks 229.

[Billthedrill]

Well, I'm pretty high on the list, but frankly, I've always wanted to shoot for number 249.

I never wanted to do this job in the first place!
I... I wanted to be...

A LUMBERJACK!

Leaping from tree to tree!
As they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia!
With my best girl by my side!
The Larch!
The Pine!
The Giant Redwood tree!
The Sequoia!
The Little Whopping Rule Tree!
We'd sing! Sing! Sing!

Oh, I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay,
I sleep all night and I work all day...

[Our man in washington]

I noticed chaffeur was at #177 and baseball player was at #202. I guess that means that when Barry Bonds gets a ride home from the ballgame, he turns to the driver "Man, if I work hard, maybe I can get a good job like yours someday."

[k2blader]

Hm, checked out the link but couldn't find any info. on how these jobs were ranked. My guess is it comes down to good ol' subjectivity. :-)

[StriperSniper]

248. Fisherman

Must be a risk averse calculation.

[The KG9 Kid]

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

[ijcr]

This is a list of the safest jobs.

[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.

[bandlength]

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

[varon]

What number is a FREEPER?