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U.S. News Announces the 2019 Best Jobs:
U.S. News & World Report [...] today [January 8] unveiled the 2019 Best Jobs. The rankings offer a look at the best jobs across 15 categories – from best-paying jobs to sectors such as business and technology – to help job seekers at every level achieve their career goals. The rankings take into account the most important aspects of a job, including growth potential, work-life balance and salary.
For the second year in a row, software developer takes the No. 1 spot as the Best Job overall. Statistician ranks at No. 2, followed by physician assistant at No. 3 and dentist at No. 4. Occupations in health care continue to show promise due to a combination of high salaries and low unemployment rates, taking 44 of the 100 Best Jobs and the majority of the Best-Paying Jobs. With an average salary of $265,990, anesthesiologist tops the list, followed by surgeon, oral and maxillofacial surgeon and obstetrician and gynecologist, respectively.
"Health care occupations continue to dominate the U.S. News 2019 Best Jobs rankings, with demand in the field highest for workers to fill roles such as nurse practitioner, physician assistant and physical therapist," said Rebecca Koenig, careers reporter at U.S. News. "That's good news for students and career changers, because it takes less school time and tuition money to prepare for those positions than it does to become a physician or surgeon."
Nearly a decade after the end of the Great Recession, unemployment in the U.S. has reached historic lows. With an overwhelming need for labor, companies have started relaxing their standards and expediting their hiring processes, giving workers the upper hand in the job market.
How do these rankings match up with your experience?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by opinionated_science on Monday January 14 2019, @04:12PM (8 children)
the problem is "software development" is totally non-specific.
I have written molecular simulations (a fun learning curve ;-) ) in my career, which involves many software challenges to add to the mathematics, physics and empirical experimental interpretation.
So could we have a bit more detail? There is an enormous variety of software from "excel scripts" to "quantum objective functions".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Monday January 14 2019, @05:32PM (7 children)
Don't forget "web developer", which is the rough equivalent of building sculptures out of raw sewage.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Monday January 14 2019, @06:35PM (4 children)
I would describe it as building sculptures out of water soluble sewage, in heavy rain, on a mud slope that is inexorably sliding downhill towards a settling pond where the deliquesced end results sink below the surface, never to be seen again. Along with the sculptor.
Of course, as I am generally quite optimistic, this still may be a case of seeing things through rose-colored glasses.
If you want to write software, IMHO, "the web" is just about the least best place to do it. It is unstable, generally not particularly performant, unreliable (not the same thing as unstable, yet compounded by it), subject to innumerable security and privacy concerns, and manifests to the end users through various only-somewhat-compatible web browsers. That's quite aside from the issue of often bludgeoning the users with ads, (un)intentional malware, for-evermore-be-damned low contrast text, poor user interfaces (like not-clicked-upon pop-up menus and windows) and so on and so forth.
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday January 14 2019, @06:51PM (3 children)
What does this tell you about TMB ?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Monday January 14 2019, @07:49PM (1 child)
Not a thing. soylentnews.org is something else entirely — I would think you'd know that. But:
Those things tell me quite a bit about soylentnews.org, and in so doing, about TMB.
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I don't mean to brag, but I just put a puzzle
together in one day. The box said 2-4 years!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday January 14 2019, @10:41PM
"I don't mean to brag, but I just put a puzzle
together in one day. The box said 2-4 years!"
;)
My son will take 3x100 piece puzzles, dump them in a pile and then put them together at the same time. I have trouble with 50 piece puzzles, lol.
I try to help him and he grabs the pieces from me because I'm taking too long.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday January 14 2019, @10:36PM
That he likes being around water?
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Monday January 14 2019, @07:07PM (1 child)
Not everyone is using Perl.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday January 14 2019, @11:09PM
Yeah, node.js and related are solid pieces of shit. Each of the grain of sand size. You pull one, all the others come tumbling down on yea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford