[mnehring]

Didn’t another recent article list Underwriter as one of the best careers?

[napscoordinator]

All of those sound boring (the old and alternative), however, I am sure that there are tons of folks who love these jobs.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Dying Career #2: Reporter
Alternative Career: [Democrat] Public Relations Specialist

It's worked for so many liberal reporters, why not?

[muir_redwoods]

One of my early jobs was as an offset cameraman. It essentially doesn’t exist anymore. For any work done with offset plates in small job shops, ( and perhaps big ones) the image goes directly from computer to plate.

[Buckeye McFrog]

surprising that Non-Attorney Spokesperson was not on the list.

[redhead]

Dying career? Try teletype operator. Yep. My area of expertise for years.

[Tenacious 1]

We also identified five alternatives that the Department of Labor says have a more promising future.

1. Administrative lackey at the Department of Labor

2. Volunteer at the local Soup Kitchen

3. Census taker (They'll be needed again someday)

4. Government subsidy recipient

5. Politician

[Lx]

There goes my buggy whip and gas lamp business.

[freedumb2003]

DBA as an alternative to semiconductor processor?

Those careers don’t posses a single atom of overlap. You might as well suggest deep sea diving as an alternate career.

[I cannot think of a name]

Dying Career #.01: Conservative, Heterosexual, Christian, male

Alternative Career: Well armed, mountain dwelling, survivalist

[Cheerio]

An article with NO DATE just drives me crazy. I guess that is so they can recycle the article over and over - lazy #$%#^

[Aria]

I work in the tax dept of a Fortune 500 company and one of our vendors who does corporte tax consulting (20k property tax returns a year!) told me his dad told him to either become a mortician or a taxman. Good advice - this guy has an absolutely gorgeous house.

Have to say I feel pretty secure in the tax dept and it isn’t as bad as I originally thought.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

is “Assistant Crack Whore” (political intern) on the list?

[RoosterRedux]

I would also recommend taking the Myers-Briggs personality test to find out what careers you would like and be good at.

If you love your work, you stand a better chance of being successful.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I think the whole notion of a "career" is dying.

You need a variety of skills - and a variety of people who know and trust your work - so you can fill roles as needed, with no real expectation that you are going to be doing the exact same type of work five years from now.

[G-Bear]

Seeing as the source for all their information is the Department of Labor, one of the most useless of government agencies, I would ignore the entire article.

[left that other site]

Proofreader.

Supposedly, “Spellcheck” does that now, but from the number of spelling, grammatical, and syntax errors I encounter in my daily reading, it does NOT do a very good job.

[onedoug]

In my next life I’m going to be a petroleum engineer.

[dfwgator]

What about Lion Taming?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOmB1q8W4Y

[Resolute Conservative]

I always wanted to be a cartographer. I love maps. GPS is the opiate of the geographically challenged.