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ikorkyiFeb 8, 2012
it is sad that almost all of the fastest growing jobs put you below the poverty line.
jaketyson85Feb 9, 2012
In this country you are probably better off being a Welfare mogul than working hard at a crappy paying job - not exactly a situation that stimulates progress.
jefffurryFeb 9, 2012
Your chances of being any kind of a mogul are slim to none. Even if "welfare moguls" actually existed, which they don't.
howdoesseanrollFeb 8, 2012
wow, many of the fastest growing jobs in that article pay under $30k yearly. How depressing.
Angry_MuppetFeb 8, 2012
Only if your a liberal arts major.
howdoesseanrollFeb 8, 2012
well, I can tell you weren't an English major...
Angry_MuppetFeb 9, 2012
Engineers can't spell
golfguy6Feb 9, 2012
Engineers can get jobs though...
scottyeaFeb 9, 2012
Arts majors are real capitalists - They follow their hearts to fill their heads and then sink or swim on the strength of their own wits. Or they go back and get another, more vocational degree like I did ;)
mrbadassFeb 12, 2012
Unfortunately for arts majors, the fact that they're spending 4+ years filling their heads with relatively unproductive information doesn't say a lot for their capitalistic wits.
badwetterFeb 8, 2012
Makes perfect sense, boomers are getting older and snail mail is disappearing. No surprises there. Service industries however are worrisome as they are traditionally low wage.
bdbrFeb 8, 2012
Unfortunately, only two of the top 10 jobs require a college degree (one just an associates). We need significant economic growth to stop running such huge budget deficits, and we're not going to get significant growth through low-wage jobs.
scamper22Feb 8, 2012
what makes you think economic growth will continue?
It is definitely not the historical norm.
Everything we consider 'economic growth' pretty much occured during the industrial revolution. Once that is over, economic growth is largely over.
China/India are still going through their industrial revolution. Once that is done, they too will have low growth.
Instead of trying to fake growth... we should rather try dealing with a more stable economy.
markglFeb 8, 2012
Right on. I've read before where we are getting to a level where we will not advance like we have in the past 100 years. We've been so inventive that to go to the next step in an evolving economy will be baby steps unlike in the past where the invention of the airplane change the way we travel or the internet that has change the world completely. So it does suck that the next steps will most likely not be big ones like we've done in the past.
josh53188Feb 9, 2012
Internet is one of the biggest things that hurt us. It has caused too much competition and easy outsourcing of our jobs. We have a few corporations that have really pulled ahead in the internet game but that really only benefits a very small contingent of workers, executives, and investors.
markglFeb 9, 2012
You sound like Obama now. ATM are putting bank tellers out of business. That's like a wagon maker being upset Ford hurt their business buy making cars. Innovation will change, has, and will continue to change the way we work and how we work.
josh53188Feb 10, 2012
I sound like Obama because I make the logical conclusion that Voice over IP makes for cheap voice outsourcing and the availability of marketing for Chinese/other cheap labor/manufacturing is easier over the World Wide Web than a chinese phone book?
bdbrFeb 8, 2012
I didn't say I think economic growth will continue; I said we are dependent on it to "grow out" of our public debt. If that doesn't happen, we will have to resort to the other two options (inflate it away or default).
markglFeb 8, 2012
I've read before where we are getting to a level where we will not advance like we have in the past 100 years. We've been so inventive that to go to the next step in an evolving economy will be baby steps unlike in the past where the invention of the airplane change the way we travel or the internet that has change the world completely. So it does suck that the next steps will most likely not be big ones like we've done in the past.
scottyeaFeb 9, 2012
I think more Americans should study overseas, like here in Australia.
dtwritesFeb 8, 2012
Every few decades jobs shift. Not surprised to see professors on the list; higher ed has truly become a business.
markglFeb 8, 2012
People are complaining that the jobs are lower paying jobs but the shrinking jobs aren't exactly high paying jobs either. But you know what? They're jobs and people are needed for them. Not everyone can be a post secondary professor. There's nothing wrong with the jobs listed.
alibaba119911Feb 8, 2012
oh God, american economy :/
flatlineskillzFeb 9, 2012
I think it sucks that most of these jobs are low paying but in all honesty, "Someone has to make the sandwiches". It wouldn't be that bad if these low paying jobs were in places that didnt have a reputation for treating their workers like garbage (Walmart, retail, fast food).
gkiltzFeb 9, 2012
Most of those jobs require high school or less. So where are all these newly-minted college degrees going to go?
Are we going to have the same "Brain drain" that Canada, the UK and Ireland suffered for so many years???
markwikFeb 9, 2012
Healthcare jobs up, Postal jobs down?
Solution: mail transplanted organs through USPS
ren1999Feb 9, 2012
Finally an article gets it. But this is something that has already been happening since 1985.
Sophisticated software is going to replace a lot more office clerical jobs.
Robots are going to replace a lot more labor jobs including sorting freight.
What we'll have left are public service jobs. Police, firefighters, teachers, store salespersons and restaurant waiters. These are jobs that nobody wants robots to do.
Robots still can't do construction jobs.
What's going to happen is that the elite still won't pay these service jobs high wages so everybody is going to be poor and the elite will lose fortunes because they won't be able to sell.
Then poor people are going to illegally squat on that big farmland and start farming for themselves. Technology will force us all back into the stone age. How ironic.
nitoriFeb 8, 2012
Only three are above the poverty line and only two make get you into the middle class bracket.
Something needs to be done as this is unacceptable.
ben7337Feb 8, 2012
What about self-driving cars? A self driving truck cuts out those drivers and their average 40k yearly pay from all the jobs they do. Something tells me self driving 18 wheelers will be one of the first everyday self driving auto's in the USA, around when luxury cars start to gain that feature, but still plenty of time after the military is expected to apply the technology. Within 30 years or so, such jobs will be useless though.
Angry_MuppetFeb 8, 2012
And what does that self driving truck do when it gets to it's destination, self unload?
ben7337Feb 8, 2012
No, you have these things called people who work in the warehouse whose job it is to unload. I promise you one driver doesn't unload every 18 wheeler. In most cases 3 or 4 people from the warehouse do most of it. Sure the driver may help depending on his responsibilities, but that's not required.
Though the long term solution is robots.
kantspelwriteFeb 9, 2012
Usually one warehouse worker on a forklift will unload your truck.
ben7337Feb 9, 2012
Perhaps in some places. I'm not sure if they did it that way at the sears I worked at. that was the only warehouse i ever saw though.
chelseaelizobethFeb 9, 2012
That's because Sears is a ridiculously inefficient company from top to bottom.
nitoriFeb 8, 2012
Trains drive themselves and still have engineers.
Someone has to be there in case something goes wrong and make sure the cargo does not get highjacked.
The same goes for airliners.
ben7337Feb 8, 2012
True to an extent, but in those jobs you have some necessity for control by the conductors and pilots still, the same way we still need people to drive cars. They can do some stuff, drive straight, cruise control, self park. However some levels of human interaction are still necessary. There is no airline computer that is programmed to land the plane safely in an emergency, without a pilot at this point it would just crash. Eventually in the future I suspect people will realize that technology can be made far far less error prone than humans, and able to respond to all possible situations by the book properly. Thus reducing casualties. When that happens, people will learn to trust the computers driving their cars, and eventually it will be considered highly dangerous for a human to actually take control of a car simply because it would be a huge risk to life as humans are error prone much more so than machines. As such in the long run, cars will be completely self piloted and eventually won't even have emergency controls for humans to use.
hagiasoFeb 8, 2012
Three postal office related jobs in the top-10 fastest shrinking. All paying average of $50k with no college degree required.
Almost makes one surprised that the post office can't afford to continue offering services.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
chilidogsFeb 8, 2012
Did you happen to notice that internet thing that you are using?
Angry_MuppetFeb 8, 2012
You have heard of sarcasm, right?
chilidogsFeb 9, 2012
I don' think that was sarcasm. I think that it was a douch acting all pissy that people get paid a decent wage to do a crappy and tedious job.
rudegarFeb 8, 2012
hand jobs are growing?
zbeastFeb 8, 2012
So what was the point o this story...
Stupid jobs that no one should be doing.
Even there "growing" jobs no one should be doing.
Closed AccountFeb 28, 2012
OMG
MasterBizCoach12Feb 11, 2012
This is a good one. Considering that the fastest-growing are those jobs that has to do with our primary needs, so no wonder they are on the list.
drubuxFeb 9, 2012
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mayrasantiagoFeb 8, 2012
Both things were easy to see it coming. Healthcare with the baby boomers getting old is going to be a major field. The postal service has being announcing the reduction of operations for years whether they have profit or not. The days of the traditional postal needs are way over. I know because my husband got retired from it. My question is, are they going to eliminate the first class air mail service also? I mean the USPS is the only one that has that service, by the way it is incredibly good and cheap.
nekokittayFeb 8, 2012
And look at that, almost all the top growing jobs are low paying ones.
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limitgovFeb 8, 2012
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/02/07/253-secret-police-murder-and-cover-up/
From FBI released documents through the freedom of information act, we
now know that FBI had prior knowledge of the target for the OK city
bombing and possible under cover agents involved.
What's more amazing, is the sworn testimony (affidavit) from a police
officer who arrived (with others) minutes after the bombing trying to
help people, who was forced to leave the scene pretty much at gunpoint
by the FBI, but before leaving, the police officer saw the FBI taking
the surveillance videos.
To this day, the FBI has not denied taking and having the tapes, but
has never released them and said they cannot find them. Even after a
judge ordering them to be released.
Completely amazing that the FBI was able to get away with this.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
chilidogsFeb 8, 2012
Totally off topic and all tin foily.
The_SovereignFeb 8, 2012
Oh, what the f**k? I thought you were a real person. I could've sworn you were capable of processing natural language.
Well played, bot.
Now f**k off.