Do You Have One Of The 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 percent by 2014 as production moves overseas. Same goes for textile workers, such as sewing machine operators, who will see a 36 percent drop in employment. Technology will kill off more office positions, such as file clerks. They'll see a 36 percent drop in their ranks by 2014. Digital cameras will zap the manual photo processing industry by about 30 percent. And that guy who comes around to read your electric meter? Expect to see a lot less of him, too.

Read the whole story: Forbes

Comments

[mmckinl]

Yep , Welcome to the new banana republic economy of the United States.

The neoliberalism we have been practising abroad , privatisation ( jobs and public infrastructure ), cuts in sociial spending , outsourcing ( jobs and whole industries) and the importation of cheap labor ( both legal and illegal ) has come home to roost.

We have a broken economy wherein we produce less and less with more and more labor while government ( local , state and national ) runs up debts , ignoring the snowballling of defined benefits.

Get ready for the reckoning ...

[thegreatgiginthesky]

Thank Bush.