Imagine that, almost all of these jobs require a deep knowledge of math...
She graduated college in 2007, in Business, emphasis in marketing. She is the one who developed her analyst skills with each new job she took. Gets a big raise with every job offer and is now up to $90,000 a year, she is 29.
Number 1 skill: Bullsh!t Artist
Meanwhile, I guess just engineering does not make the list.
Yup, I am still out of a job. 2 interviews in the next few days, but we’ll see. It has been a rough year.
“Crony”.
They also left off large donations to the democrat party. This will get you a do nothing, hardly show well paying position with super benefits and retirement .
My 4 year degree in the Marine Corps as an Aviation Electronics Tech and a degree in Geology landed me my first job with Texas Instruments in their Science Services Division exploring for oil and gas. Spent 25 years in the industry.
STEM skills have always been in demand and short supply during my lifetime. If you had one of these skills you could usually find enough work to sustain a good middle class career or better. That’s the route I followed.
After WWII, there was a boom requiring new STEM skills related to hardware, software, and data analysis that were not present before the emergence of digital computers. When Computer Science was added to the curricula in the late sixties to early seventies, all computer related skills really took off. The demands of employers and the shortage of skilled people drove salaries sky high.
Many of the baby boomer generation started college during and after the Vietnam war. College was affordable and the demand for STEM skills was running high, so a lot of them pursued careers in these fields. I was one of those. Incidentally, a lot my fellow students were from Arab and middle eastern countries here to obtain the skills needed back home.
The market for these skills has been consistently strong over the last 50 years and appears it will continue through the 21st century. As the political and economic climate changes, STEM jobs are being lost and salaries driven downward due to an the abundance of foreign H1-B workers claiming to have the same skills. Also our collages are no longer affordable to the average student, causing many shift to liberal arts careers which take less time and effort. Furthermore, the public school system has failed to teach the Mathematics and Science needed to prepare students for a career in these fields. Hence more foreign workers will fill the gaps.
As long as we are a capitalist society, the laws of supply and demand will affect which careers are the most sought after and the salaries paid. I am a retired IT guy, but if I were to be looking today I would be looking for future trends and demands. One of those might be robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence, fields that are just coming online and have a long way to go. But if you do the analysis you can find others.
Finally, to young people seeking the America dream and a profitable career, I would say choose to attain a marketable skill (something people will you pay for in exchange for your expertise) and build a career plan around it. Don’t spend a 100K in student loans for a law (there are too many already), journalism (propagandist with no morals), or basket weaving (obsoleted by machines) degree. And remember whatever you choose there will always be competition from others in the field. So don’t choose a career if you can’t be the best or better than the competition.
No, I am NOT going to take my Netware certs from the wall. It’s coming back, I tellya.
Perl? Wow I am a shoe in.