Posted on 04/07/2014 12:07:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you live in certain buildings in New York City, you get to know your doorman.
The weekend guy in my building, Gene, knew I was a business reporter, and on Saturday he asked me what his son should study when he starts City College next year.
(City College, by the way, remains the primary option — and a stellar one — for advanced higher ed in New York for the children of what remains of New York's working class.)
Anyway, off the top of my head, I was at a loss. I mostly cover energy, an area that obviously has seen tremendous growth in the past few years, but I doubted his son would be interested in moving to North Dakota or Texas to work on an oil rig.
So I told him I'd look up what the fastest-growing job opportunities were in the country.
Each year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects which occupations it expects will see the greatest growth in the next few years.
The results you get depend on whether you're looking at absolute or percentage growth. But, as I discovered, both tell depressing stories.
First, on a rate basis, there's basically only one sector in the economy in which labor demand is growing at a steady clip: health and medical (21 out of 30 of the occupations listed in the table below are in this field).
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
I went to the doctor this morning for my annual check-up.
I noticed there weren’t as many receptionist clerks as there used to be 4 or 5, now 2. The place is a med clinic so they represent several doctors.
The receptionist for my doctor handed me a tablet, like an iPad and told me to fill out the forms, just follow the directions on screen. It was wireless and connected to the clinic’s main network, so all the info was automatically filed. I EVEN PAID FOR THE VISIT WITH THE TABLET, just swiped my CC thru the slot on the side....................
Last week we ate a Chili’s, a national yuppie SW-Tex-Mex restaurant chain. There was a tablet at the table. You ordered thru the tablet and paid your check as well........................
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Anyone care to take a crack at what this means?
My wife came across a YouTube video of similar title recently. I dared her to click on it.
Turns out, it's just a lower abdominal massage. Up the right side from the hip to the diaphragm, across under the ribs, then down the left side. Useful for dislodging a gas pocket or something, I suppose.
The Waco practicioner must be hoping to make money off of those plugged-up vegans in Austin.
Dirty little secret is that smarts don't really matter in Higher Ed anymore. Lots of places are dumbing down their requirements.
You reap what is sown.
I believe not is the best time to open a cemetery/funeral home. Nothing but money to be made when the baby boomers start hittin’ the dust.
At least it's an inside job, right?
NOW ..... I mean
“Raise the import tariffs and put Americans back to work.”
I really hate it when I see this...
It is nothing but tripe, that does nothing to address why the jobs left the US in the first place.
Tariffs do nothing but lower an already lowered standard of living.
“IRS debt and court debt are also not discharged in bankruptcy.”
They can be, under certain conditions.
It won’t matter before long. The medical racket is also government-linked in several ways. The overspending can’t go on forever. Even moderate spending is only truly supported by a large manufacturing base.
You might want to listen to this: http://www.wnyc.org/story/how-collaborative-economy-could-change-capitalism/
I think he’s right.
We have thirty years of jobs left, during which the remaining employed will complete infrastructure for the computer run automated manufacturing and service economy.
Then what? The author doesn’t know then what.
I figure just about everybody will be unemployed, and the government will give us all an equal number of ration cards to exchange for machine supplied goods and services.
The future—thanks to technology—looks horrible.
Maybe at that point, the “powers that be” will decide to thin the herd by releasing some virulent beasty from deep storage. I expect the elites aren’t happy that 7 billion people are cluttering up the place.
RE: Then what?
The remaining jobs will be making and maintaining and enhancing the automated equipment in existence.
But those are jobs for techies, of which not everyone has the aptitude for.
Barry the Destroyers new normal.
God give us a conservstive outsider/reformer as our next president
You hit the nail on the head. Plus many of the high paying jobs here are overrun with fake H1B visa workers who become gate keepers - shutting out well qualified American citizens from gaining access to openings. If you work in IT, telesales, or customer care, you know what I mean... (it's happening in the medical industry too).
It is nothing but tripe, that does nothing to address why the jobs left the US in the first place.
We need to lower or eliminate the corporate income tax. The corporate income tax is just another way to tax the consumer. It also has the effect of raising the cost of doing business by forcing corporations to take their businesses in directions that they otherwise would not have gone but for tax avoidance strategies.
We need to eliminate the tax on income made overseas by US corporations. This is driving many corporations off shore again to avoid taxes. It also forces corporations to reinvest profits made overseas in to other nations. Why should the US be the only industrialized nation to tax overseas profits? Why should be force our companies to leave profits overseas?
We need to stem the flood of outrageous new regulations that make everything more expensive for no good reason.
Why are jobs going overseas? Maybe because our government has made it impossible to keep them here.
Degrees in liberal arts, political science, history, and the ethnic studies are wastes of time and money. The jury's out on music, Home Ec, anthropology and that sort of thing.
No surprises, right? If you have kids, aim them accordingly.
The number one thing we need to do is raise the import tariffs.
You can eliminate all taxes and all regulations and you still can’t compete with China’s labor rate. We should not be allowing China to dictate wages in the U.S. We should protect our market.
The stores are full of Chinese made goods while our own people sit sidelined and out of work. There is a huge trade good deficit. China accumulates the dollars and prevents them from coming back to buy U.S. trade goods, but instead buys U.S. equities and U.S. debt.
We are liquidating the U.S. to buy cheap chinese goods, and we are paying support for half our country to sit idle, while we do it. Restore the import tariffs.
The number one thing we need to do is raise the import tariffs.
You can eliminate all taxes and all regulations and you still can’t compete with China’s labor rate. We should not be allowing China to dictate wages in the U.S. We should protect our market.
The stores are full of Chinese made goods while our own people sit sidelined and out of work. There is a huge trade good deficit. China accumulates the dollars and prevents them from coming back to buy U.S. trade goods, but instead buys U.S. equities and U.S. debt.
We are liquidating the U.S. to buy cheap chinese goods, and we are paying support for half our country to sit idle, while we do it. Restore the import tariffs.
Of course there isn't. The daughter doing her pre-reqs for a nursing program now. Thing is there's a loooooong waiting list. I suggested maybe talking to a Navy recruiter for a possible Corpsman rating then continue school. We'll see.
What worries me is what happens to happens to these medical field salaries once husseinCare is in full swing. Stories on FR some hospitals are already cutting back staff.
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