Posted on 01/20/2010 5:12:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
In today’s economy many companies are forced to lay off employees in order to maintain profitability. Whether you suddenly find yourself unemployed, or you are no longer satisfied with your current job, a change in your career path may be just what you need to make a fresh start. It is a difficult decision which takes time and money. That is why when thinking about making a career change, it is important to consider career skills, job satisfaction, salary and some other points. It is also important to make sure the career you choose will be in demand a few years from now.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its 2008-18 employment projections where presented twenty occupations with the fastest growth and twenty occupations with the fastest decline.
Twenty occupations with the fastest growth:
1. Biomedical engineers
2. Network systems and data communications analysts
3. Home health aides
4. Personal and home care aides
5. Financial examiners
6. Medical scientists, except epidemiologists
7. Physician assistants
8. Skin care specialists
9. Postsecondary vocational award
10. Biochemists and biophysicists
11. Athletic trainers
12. Physical therapist aides
13. Dental hygienists
14. Dental assistants
15. Computer software engineers, applications
16. Medical assistants
17. Physical therapist assistants
18. Veterinarians
19. Self-enrichment education teachers
20. Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation.
As you can see, half are related to healthcare. Healthcare is experiencing rapid growth, due in large part to the aging of the baby-boom generation, which will require more medical care.
Network systems and data communications analysts are projected to be the second fastest growing occupation in the economy. Demand for these workers will increase as organizations continue to upgrade their information technology capacity and incorporate the newest technologies.
Twenty occupations with the fastest decline:
1. Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders
2. Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders
3. Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders
4. Shoe machine operators and tenders
5. Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers
6. Sewing machine operators
7. Semiconductor processors
8. Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders
9. Postal Service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators
10. Fabric menders, except garment
11. Wellhead pumpers
12. Fabric and apparel patternmakers
13. Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
14. Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
15. Order clerks
16. Coil winders, tapers, and finishers
17. Photographic processing machine operators
18. File clerks
19. Derrick operators, oil and gas
20. Desktop publishers
Fifteen of the twenty occupations with the fastest decline are either production occupations or office and administrative support occupations, both of which are adversely affected by increasing plant and factory automation or the implementation of office technology, reducing the need for workers in those occupations. For example, the duties of administrative assistants involve a great deal of personal interaction that cannot be automated, whereas the duties of file clerks adding, locating, and removing business records can be automated or performed by other workers.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
i think your list is off a bit ..
i have never gotten a lot of good stuf from linked in any way.. mostly politically correct topics.....
I would like to add to the decline list: democrat house and senate members.
UPSIDE: Get yourself a metal lathe at bargain basement prices. With a lathe, you can fabricate every other tool in the shop and machine handy things . . . that you cannot buy.
Well, I have been out of work for a year now.
20+ years of technical experience.
Everybody says I am highly skilled, and talented, but no job for me!
After losing $100,000 in real estate that I cant keep the payments up on, I am now sleeping, in my car, at the local Wal-Mart.
What a country we live in!
Here is an excerpt from my resume cover letter.
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When they said that a computer couldn’t beat the best chess players, they were eventually proved wrong. People also said that a generalized Internet spider couldn’t find all of the worlds food recipes. Google tried for a while and gave up. It was thought to be too complex of a task. Anybody could put up a recipe on the net, in just about any format conceivable.
Well, I did it. It wasn’t easy, for reasons that may surprise you.
I taught a computer to read recipes, and amass the worlds largest cookbook. Almost 500,000 recipes.
It is all explained here:
http://www.freewebs.com/instawares/dataminingbusinessintelligence2.html
If I can do this, what other challenges are out there?
They’re down on the oil related jobs, but where are the “green jobs?”
What has happened to the textile industry in this country is a crime. The market is all cheap polyester crap made in China now. Gone are the beautiful cottons, linens, wools, dyes and fabrics made in America and Europe.
This is my complaint. North Carolina used to have some of the most wonderful fabric stores and the US produced such nice fabric. The garbage that is being sold today is so poor in quality that I am reduced to going to thrift stores, flea markets and yard sales to find cotton fabric which is worth anything.
And the quality of the fabric from name brand clothing items will not withstand wear or cleaning beyond a couple of times.
Makes you laugh to see the UGG boots of Australia are made in China!!
It seems to me there ought to be a niche market for quality fabrics, at least, then.
“Free Republic cottons?”
To read later
November 2010; Retirement Day, USA.
The fact is that people want stuff cheaper, and they’ll sacrifice some amount of quality for that. The Chinese are very good at producing goods that are 80% of the quality of those made elsewhere, but at 50% of the cost.
I am in cancer detection. We have recently moved and I haven’t yet found a job. It might have something to do with the new guidelines involving mammograms and pap smears. Nationalized medical systems don’t practice preventative care.
May I add: Light skinned black men that don’t speak like a
Negro except when they need to.
Add Liberal (Progressive) and RINO politicians to the down list.
I live near "The Sock Capital of the World"... not but a few companies left in town now and they are down to just a skeleton crew. Moved to South America most of it to compete with China.
They had removed the production step of sewing the toe (Complett machines and Turn Sew Turn machines) to machines that sewed the toe in while knitting it. That helped for a while, but only about 5 years.
Town is now pushing 20% unemployment... Free trade ain't fair trade.
BTW... there was not one union job in town, it wasn’t the union’s fault the jobs left.
Those of us “old-wimmin” who know how to knit, sew, spin, and weave might not be obsolete?
...knitting socks for my grandson at the moment. Just finished an Aran sweater for a friend, knitted from the top down, with saddle shoulders, no seams.
Finding good fabric will be a challenge though, if it all goes to China! I can sew really nice shirts, too.
The native American Indians used to be very good at this, why can't this skill be revived once again?
Because it's not a matter of skill. It's because people in China and India will work for $2 per month. Globalization of trade is destroying whole sectors of our economy.
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