Worst Jobs For The 21st Century

Forbes:

Health care, education and financial services--if you're looking for work in the coming decades, these are the fields to get into.

What to avoid? The usual suspects. According to the projections by the U.S. government, manufacturing jobs are expected to decline by more than 5% by 2014 as production moves overseas. Same goes for textile workers, such as sewing machine operators, who will see a 36% drop in employment. Technology will kill off more office positions, such as file clerks. They'll see a 36% drop in their ranks by 2014. Digital cameras will zap the manual photo processing industry by about 30%. And that guy who comes around to read your electric meter? Expect to see a lot less of him, too.

But these are the obvious victims as the U.S. moves from a goods-producing economy to a services-producing economy. More interesting are the jobs that are likely to experience slower than average growth (average being about 13%). This is where the surprises are.

Read the whole story: Forbes

Comments

[Dansden]

Worst Jobs in America:

PR for BUSHCO (cutesy Perino still lies for the DECIDER!)

Scheduling Secretary for Sen. larry Craig

Attorneys for Tom Delay and Senator Stevens of Alaska (how to keep a straight face in the courtrooms)

Advertising Firm with Diebold marketing account

Makeup Artist for Dick Cheney (of course, with Halloween there are opportunities to make the best of his reputation...)

Elocution Coach for the Chimpster BUSH

Therapists for Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity

[BigBagel]

Sp we're going to educate each other, sell financial products to each other and do open heart surgery on each other. We just won't make anything. Sounds like a great economy.

[EvSmith]

Good news. Local resource bases are waiting to be developed.

Globalism is NOT the way of the future. It is a blight on the entire planet and it is totally unsustainable.

The deal is to get filthy rich while you can(if your business is based on the current free-for-all global trade model),before the people of this country wake up to the reality that we already have much of what we need and want, without Asian imports and without Wal-Mart and Home Depot's war on prices(on their customers behalf ofcourse).

A shift in consumer spending habits will happen eventually. All it takes is enough people caring about where there choice products are produced and spending their hard won dollars accordingly.
We are all responsible, boycott Wal-Mart and Home Depot already.

Made in the U.S.A is not what we're used to at this point, but that can change.
If the focused is shifted from quantity and cheap throw aways, to quality and design than we can compete with European and Canadian design and innovation based products, industries and services.

Sustainable development and infrastructure re-developement,
localized food and energy production, ingenuity and the power of emerging technologies will provide us with many, many legitimate opportunities.

I am dedicating my own life style choices and my future career aspirations to a carbon conscious, home grown approach.
The reality is that green is gold.

We must sever our dependance on fossil fuels and third world goods.
That's a tall order for everyone of us.

[Qbear]

Worst Job of 21 st century

Ted Haggard's masseur

ick ick ick

second worst job of 21st century

underage text message recipient boys on Oral Robert's university president's wife's call list

(creepier than a backrub from grandma)

[otispfudpucker]

Thank you Bill Clinton and George Bush for Nafta/Cafta and next to come North American Union.

[Saganslegacy]

Creation and manufacturing are the source of wealth, financial services are part of the infrastructure to support and to some degree steer those. But if manufacturing goes, so will development, and in the end also financial services will leave. The brokers may then move to China.

This country needs more creation, more engineers, not more financial services. Today financial services are mainly living on interest, on expectations, speculation.

Just look at the neurotic crowd at Wall street.

[LeftLeftLeft]

Profit has replaced productivity, and greed has replaced morality. Sad way to fall, America . . .

[forebode]

The right wing has been trying to destroy the middle class for years. They see the middle class as the "middleman" taking wealth away from the very wealthy. Face it, people. We will have a slave state, and a few will decide who is fit enough to work and who will die. The slaves will live in internment camps, chained to the walls so they can't rise up and overthrow their master(s). Time for the middle class and poor rise up and destroy the right wing before they can make their move they have been planning for decades.

[marko77]

We need service jobs, but an ecomomy that has only service jobs is nothing but a banana republic - and that's what America is becoming.

Trillions owed to China. People working 2-3 low paying jobs just trying to their heads above water.

Big money being made in crime: selling drugs, porno, and crass entertainment.

America is a shell of it's old self. Only the top 1/2 of 1% are living free and easy. Everyone else will be struggling to get by.

[nancytheragingliberal]

marko77. Yes, sad but true. Millionairs will be billionairs, billionairs will be zillionairs and everyone else will be slaves for them. Let's take a trip back to the Guilded Age because that is where we are, yes, we have already arrived. Can soup lines be far behind?Enjoy your gruel because you will be lucky if that is what you have on your plate. Manja!

[forebode]

That was the whole idea of the right wing trying to destroy everything the New Deal created. In the Twenties, the very wealthy could have mansions and personal castles by rivers made with pennies on the dollar because labor was so cheap.
Those castles and mansions you saw on the old program "American's Castles" was made by slave labor, or pretty close to it. Time for a workers' revolution.

[ownsthepodium]

Where exactly do you live? What people are you talking about?
I assure you I am far, far from the top 10%, let alone the top half of 1%.
Yet I'm living free and happy. Notice the happy in place of easy? That's because it wasn't easy; it's called work and dedication.
"free and easy", kind of the whole liberal motto isn't, as unrealistic as it is childish.

[marko77]

ownsthepodium

I've worked at more jobs and probably longer than you will in 10 lifetimes. From Longshoreman, factory worker, taxi driver, to the white collar job I've had for the last 25 years. I know about work and I plan to work past retirement age. And I know a phoney like you ownsthepodium.

America is a great country and it's turning into a Banana Republic before our eyes. You can bullshit and say it ain't so, but don't expect me to take you seriously.

By the way, on Lou Dobbs today, an Arabian Company just took over a big GE plant in Indiana. Arabic writing is now on the logo. The people are nervous and I don't blame them. Our best jobs have been oursourced and the scraps that are left will be bought by companies from Saudi Arabia, India, and China. It's sad and pathetic.

It also shows that great countries go down the drain when given away from within. Ask W about that.

[NotALib]

And what would the democrats do to solve this dilema.....oh yeah, raise corporate taxes. That works every time........idiots.

[bobbquackenbush]

Forbes was the one that predicted the paperless office by 1990. A grain of salt is always a good idea.

[ownsthepodium]

Forbes didn't take into account the Luddite factor. Offices could indeed be paperless but try convincing everyone to actually go paperless. Heck if you can convince one HR department I'd be impressed.

[Destin]

Sounds more and more like we might be heading towards that prophetic 1927 movie, Metropolis. Maybe, like in the movie, there will only be 2 classes. The poor and the rich. Here's a quote from a movie review of sorts....

"Society has been divided into two rigid groups: one of planners or thinkers, who live high above the earth in luxury, and another of workers who live underground toiling to sustain the lives of the privileged."

I fear we'll be heading that route very soon, if not already there in some form. ;) And if I'm to be a worker, lol, then please let us keep Maria (played by the stunningly HOT Brigitte Helm). Mmmmmm. ;)

[Destin]

http://video.scifi.com/player/?id=57837

Come watch Metropolis with me. ;)

[Horus]

Dammit. I was reading the article and I was already pissed at what I was reading then I saw that govt jobs would be worse off. Unfortunately thats me.

[IShotReagan]

"But these are the obvious victims as the U.S. moves from a goods-producing economy to a services-producing economy."

What a bunch of doublespeak. Service don't PRODUCE any THING. One of the biggest lies is to equate good with services. Services exist because of goods and not the other way around. A healthy economy needs a mix of both. We should all be nurses and accountants, right? So what happens as the services are now being exported/outsourced too, like banking, accounting, programming and the like? Do we then say was are shifting from a "services-producing economy" to a "services-consuming economy?"

Economic: the art of deception and doublespeak.

[drkazmd65]

I just don't get how we are supposed to remain a viable, vibrant, country with an expanding economy if we don't maintian a reasonable manufacturing base?

If the goal is to make most Americans into workers in service related 'industries',... how independent can we remain as a country if we rely on Mexico, China, and the rest of SE Asia and Central America for the actual goods we need to keep the country running?

[NotALib]

Nothing newsworthy here.

You know there used to be quite a number of telephone operators out there....which administration should be blamed for that? Times change and so does the job market, better get used to it.