Posted on 12/24/2018 8:10:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Looking for a new job? If you are, 2019 is expected to be a great year for landing one of the highest paying jobs in a fast growing field.
Those plum top jobs are in fields like physician's assistant and software developer for apps.
One forecast even says jobs are expected to bloom for cannabis cultivators. That's right — pot growers! But the pay may not be as good as it is in those fastest growing, highest paying jobs. That combination makes those jobs the bull's-eye of job hunting.
If you want to land one of the highest paying jobs in a field that is growing fast, it will help to have sharp so-called STEM skills (science, technology, engineering, mathematics).
But even without polished STEM skills, you can still land one of those highest paying jobs. You just have to know certain job-hunting tricks, says Katie Bardaro, chief economist for Payscale.com, a website that offers information about salaries and benefits.
Those tips are especially helpful to anyone who does not necessarily have the time or money to go back to school full time.
And those tips are timely because job hunting traditionally kicks into high gear each new year.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), jobs with the highest rate of new openings between 2016 and 2026 — and which also offered the highest median wages in 2017 — will be physician assistant, nurse practitioner, mathematician and software developer for apps.
The number of jobs in those fields is expected to grow 29.7%-37.3% from 2016 to 2026.
Median annual pay for those jobs ranges from $101,790 for app developers to $104,860 for a physician's assistant. That makes those among 2019's top choices for new jobs.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
I need to finally get my Security + and work from there.
Mathematician ??
Perhaps from the explosion if machine/deep learning applications?
One can usually get a job with a degree in Math but I don’t remember ever seeing it in the top five before.
Protestor isn’t on the list..?
Not surprised so many are in health care.
Do you enjoy:
1. Coming to the office at 8 AM, and not leaving until 7PM?
2. Attending tedious and unproductive meetings while the work piles up at your desk?
3. Having to meet unrealistic deadlines imposed by senior management?
4. Being asked to participate in tests and installations that take place over long weekends?
If so, you may be qualified for a high-paying job! Just be sure to fill out your weekly timesheet, and don’t forget to take the anti-money-laundering course....
A few months later she was sent to a business seminar where she met someone who lured her away to Amazon for $125k plus stock bonuses that added another $30k. After just about 2 years at Amazon, people she met there began a start up and she went with them as a partner, now she's making real money traveling between her home in Aspen and an second HQ in Denmark.
It's not an everyday story. But it's a good one for a little girl who lived next door and is just turning 25.
Want to set your own hours & prices?
Want to pick or discard your own clients?
There is a severe shortage of farriers in the USA.
Farrier—a person who trims & shoes horses.
NOT recommended for tall people. Hard on your back if you are tall.
Nothing in the engineering field? That’s about right. Overworked and underpaid as always.
I could be a genetic counselor.
“Without even looking at the results, I can see that you inherited the ugly gene. Did your mama used to push your face into the cookie dough to make gorilla cookies?”
Good for her!
Sounds like I got my grad degrees in the wrong era!
Though places where there are Google & Amazon are places I would hate to live! I used to have to go to the Silicon Valley a couple of times a month. Other then the jobs I couldn’t see the attraction.
I’m glad people are interested and cut out for medical work.
Blood and stuff, especially other people’s is a bit rough on my stomach. I have never had to do any real first aid but I could handle it and remember what bits of training I’ve picked up. Then hold until hopefully the calvary shows up or at least another rational person.
Medical science always fascinated me though.
If you are an American citizen, you can forget about getting a Software Developer job. Those jobs are mostly reserved for H1B visa holders, people from India/China.
If you are already a software developer and older than 50, you will be replaced.
LOL!
No Engineering jobs? Explains why the US has to rely on foreign Engineers.
A preacher I listen to is a college Statistics professor. His students asked him, “Why don’t you become an Actuary? They make a lot of money.” He said that he’s doing what he loves (including preaching on the side, for no money) and actually gets a lot of satisfaction from his work.
I wouldn’t mind being a nurse practitioner.
How long do we practice every day?
A top ten list of small businesses one is still allowed to own and operate with minimal government interference would be a better value to readers.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.