Excellent Careers for 2006 - The Best Jobs to Have in 2006

US News & World via Yahoo ^ | January 11, 2006 | Marty Nemko

[Chi-townChief]

"Training, not surprisingly, can be long and grueling and often irrelevant. One engineer I met, who works for General Dynamics, told me that 95 percent of what he learned in college–a prestigious one–was irrelevant to his work."

I made this very same observation in a job interview one time (the interviewer and have the same alma mater); big mistake !!

[Mr. Jeeves]

Because most landscape architecture projects don't have as many components as the design for a building

Duh...ya think? If a garden gnome tips over, people usually don't die. ;)

[jveritas]

However it is absolutely true and most engineers agree with this.

[jigsaw]

Professional Freeper.

[Mr. Jeeves]

It's true for most buisiness administration/IT/corporate office-type jobs. Just about everything relevant is learned on the job. A college degree is four years spent to keep HR departments from throwing your resume in the trash unread. ;)

[Buck W.]

Probably true, but college prepares an engineer for a generalist career--it's not meant to be an apprenticeship.

[dangus]

Any job, done insufficiently, can cause problems. (meant in humor only... I doubt this a landscaping architect's fault.)

[apackof2]

Professional Retiree

[goodnesswins]

READ THIS ONE....

Clergy. Want the satisfaction of doing good? You'll routinely play a significant role in major life events such as birth, marriage, crisis, and death. Plus this career offers status, normally modest work hours, and often good salaries. You needn't necessarily have unquestioned faith in God. I've spoken with a number of clergy who have deep questions about the nature and even existence of a Supreme Being.

[petercooper]

Professional Bad-Ass

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Not unless he was using a really big pair of shears... :-)

[Herakles]

If you leave off the word Bad you got it right!

[Chi-townChief]

I've told that to a lot of people a lot of them get highly pissed about it but a high school diploma is more than adequate for many professional careers.

[Chi-townChief]

You can say that again.

[apackof2]

Professional Idiot

[kstewskis]

Physical therapist. Yet another one-on-one healthcare career, which, like the others, will be in growing demand. Boomers will need increasing hands-on care to recover from strokes, replaced hips, and other infirmities that come with aging.

Physical Therapy has always been a growing profession, and I've been involved in it for almost 20 years.

It's not only aging, but more kids are into sports and are injured at an alarming rate. The type of injuries (and surgeries) we used to see in late high school or college just ten years ago, we're beginning to see in they younger kids.

I've never been busier than I have been in the last 4-5 years as being self employed. There is a huge demand.

[petercooper]

Professional Big Fat Stupid Liberal Agitator Schmuck

[speedy]

There is a severe shortage of alligator wrestlers right now.

[apackof2]

LOL

Professional NutCase