The Boston Globe recently ran a list of the 30 fastest growing jobs in the US. Their source was the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook and Career Guide to Industries.
Here's the list:
- physician's assistants
- physical therapists
- manicurists and pedicurists
- environmental science and protection technicians
- Gaming and sports book writers and runners
- software engineers
- database administrators
- computer system analysts
- dental assistants
- marriage and family therapists
- mental health and substance abuse social workers
- mental health counselors
- dental hygienists
- forensic science technicians
- pharmacy technicians
- physical therapist assistants
- gaming surveillance officers and gaming investigators
- social and human service assistants
- financial analysts
- skin care specialists
- substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors
- veterinarians
- medical assistants
- theatrical and performance makeup artists
- personal financial advisers
- veterinary technologists and technicians
- computer applications software engineers
- home health aides
- personal and home care aides
- network systems and data communications analysts
This is depressing. Apparently over the next 30 years we're going to be waiting on the damn Baby Boomers in their dotage (having fucked up the whole country on their watch, now they want us to take care of their aches and pains in retirement too, while paying us shit). To distract ourselves from our economic pain and dead-end jobs, we'll be dousing ourselves with drugs and begging therapists to put us back together, murdering each other in droves (hence the forensics), gambling heavily, and owning a lot of pets . Meanwhile, a few computer types will get some careers outsourced from India once their standard of living and payscale exceeds ours. At least with all the makeup artists, pedicurists, and manicurists we'll look fabulous while the nation circles the drain.
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