Posted on 12/18/2014 7:46:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
All these seem to me that they are highly unstable carreer paths. In other words you are easily replaced and these jobs can be easily offshored.
If I was given a do-over, I might aspire to be a sommelier. You can make 100k and up, and the working conditions are great.
Saw a story a few month ago about a San Antonio woman with a masters in Museum Science. After waiting tables for a few years, she was thrilled to get a job at a museum in Dumas, Texas (also known as bumf**k Egypt) for 12k per year.
RE: I returned from Afghanistan two and a half years ago to no job.My hobbies are blacksmithing and craft beer. I combined the two hobbies and now hand forge custom bottle openers. I sell them from $50-$300 apiece.It has turned out to be a well paying job/hobby.
HEY GOOD FOR YOU !!!
See... Manufacturing is alive and well in the USA.
http://www.6sigma.us/six-sigma-washington-dc.php
I’ve been looking into this a while. This place offers 2 days for yellow, 4 weeks (total if needed) for black. All I want is yellow. I do not want to be a master of BS.
Why wouldn’t engineering make the list? I thought petroleum and robotics engineers were in high demand.
Yes, but it is still hot. Didn’t really become hot until the ‘90s (Motorola invented it; I am white-belt certified. ;-) )
And now they have LEAN!
All this nonsense in business. When I started my last job it was “design-to-cost” (DTC). Some years later there I took a class with the same principle - but they called it “Cost as an Independent Variable” (CAIV). Don’t call it DTC! We’ll look irrelevant and obsolete!
Thanks!
Yes, there really is no truly useful endeavor except science-based skills.
I’ve come to this conclusion more and more, but perhaps I am biased.
I do not know what they mean by “skills”, because engineering is a whole set of skills, yet they list some things as “engineers”. Skills really should be quite specific knowledge and ability.
Engineering is always in demand. We’re the ones who actually build things and keep them going. It may slow, but it is always there.
My older son is a partner in a smallish CPA firm in a smaller city making mid six figures.
My do over might be a professional photographer or a travel writer.
Good point.
Perl? Wow I am a shoe in.
Thank you. I am biased toward mathematics and science too. But I will not say mathematics and science is for everyone. For those that learn and use it, it makes life a little more interesting and rewarding.
I personally have to know how something functions in order to know when it malfunctions. Then I have to know how to fix or work around it. Mathematics teaches deductive logic and problem solving skills.
Mathematics, or as some say arithmetic, has always been one of the fundamental skills a child should develop an early age along with reading and writing. Note the absence of these skills in the lower economic groups. As witnessed by the recent protests, life can be very frustrating when you can’t read, write, or compute.
Granted liberal arts types excel at reading and writing more often than science types (I believe they refer to us as geeks), but it’s the compute part where they they miss the mark. A lot of what they say doesn’t make sense logically (false=0, true=1) and they are in a transitive state that does not exist (maybe=?) in the real world. To work around this inconvenience, they have developed a new math where 2 + 2 = whatever so that little Johnny will not be psychologically scarred or otherwise impaired for being the ignoramus he is. Now Johnny can feel confident he is qualified and smart enough to be President someday.
This is why the space program is focused on Muslims and not Mars.
wow white belt i can only spell 6 sigma. my boss uses the bell curve for evaluating all of us. i don’t have the heart to get him the book “the Bell Curve”.
not enough smart babies. me most of friends and Rush all not adding the curve. i’m 62 and just trying to survive.
“wow white belt i can only spell 6 sigma”
Well that is pretty much what White Belt means....
They work on analyzing the search data coming in from their customers websites to find out where it is coming from, who it is coming from, etc and then make sure their customers websites come up on the first page of a search. And their customers are huge companies that pay over $100,000 a year for that service.
Good luck with it!
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