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- GerryBot, on 11/28/2007, -5/+88I suppose climate modelling *could* be considered a hot career :)
- heartcoldfusion, on 11/28/2007, -3/+40Nice list. While we're on the subject of ideal jobs you'll never have, consider these great careers:
Rock Star.
Pro Athlete.
Male Porn Star.
Billionaire.
Playboy. - inactive, on 11/28/2007, -1/+34I see they left "Professional digger", or better known as a digg troll, off the list.
- Andareed, on 11/28/2007, -2/+29Yes, but it's still not clear whether the climatology field is being driven by long-term, natural economic forces or recent industry-fueled hype.
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -0/+26Most company's use their IT people poorly a guy I know doubles as the janitor because they don't think he is doing anything. It's his own fault for keeping the networks and computers up and running.
- jhul, on 11/28/2007, -0/+22I'll train you, tuition fee is $1000000000.
- surfing, on 11/28/2007, -0/+15They left Nigerian / 419 Scammer off the list.
- LokitheComplex, on 11/28/2007, -0/+15I do video graphics. I wouldn't recommend it. Long hours over screens (I now have eye damage). And there is far more supply than demand.
IT jobs are easy to out source and the skills treadmill is a nightmare. Why train your staff in new systems when the younger cheaper people can do the job at half the price? Can the average work retrain themselves every 5 years?
Skills are for slaves.
You can be a genius all you want but unless you have access to the cash bag then you always get burned. - Error601, on 11/28/2007, -1/+15I believe you'll find just about every career uses computers these days.
- nepawoods, on 11/28/2007, -2/+11Learn to read.
- MikeonTV, on 11/28/2007, -1/+10And yet here you are
- antdude, on 11/28/2007, -0/+9How does one train to become a billionaire?
- pascal21, on 11/28/2007, -0/+7design. design. design.
with an era of visual culture where people expect to "see" information, designers are more and more important, because everything has to look cool, right? where is graphic/web designer on that list? - badenglishihave, on 11/28/2007, -1/+8The "Reply" button is your friend, mate. Cheers :) .
Also, climatology sounds boring. - inactive, on 11/28/2007, -3/+10I see my profession, a librarian, is not on there. Librarians never make it on a top 10 list unless it's "The Top 10 Jobs that Require a Masters Degree with Least Pay".
And yes, librarians are very computer driven....at least we're supposed to be. - Daedalus17, on 11/28/2007, -3/+9Doing porn sounds great until you find out that the large majority of male porn stars get their foot in the door by doing gay porn. If banging dudes is worth it to move up the latter to the hot chicks all the more power to you.
- Nougat, on 11/28/2007, -4/+10Once again, nothing at all about the people who design, configure, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair the network devices and servers that all of this stuff runs on. IT != AppDev.
- zachshmack, on 11/28/2007, -0/+5Lol, and of course Fox News has to show someone pole dancing.
- mikehill33, on 11/28/2007, -2/+7I didn't see internet troll on the list?
- shucklak, on 11/28/2007, -1/+6IT = Information Technology
That means 99.9% of the jobs you'd get because of your Computer Science degree are going to be an "IT Career"
And you'd be very surprised to see employers are much more interested in experience, not so much an MS. - LokitheComplex, on 11/28/2007, -1/+6Yes its naff article.
Its full of painfully obvious points mixed with absurd optimism and a lack of actual industry knowledge. - netant, on 11/28/2007, -9/+14Gee, a good thing that article is ludicrously flawed, or I would conclude there is no future in the computer industry. The only jobs that I see as being prevalent is "Internet Entrepreneur" and "Web specialist". The others are ridiculously niche, it would be like getting a spot at a major sports franchise.
- bubbadoo989, on 11/28/2007, -0/+5Smackhero, get a life. I'm not complaining about immigrants... I'm complaining about a largely corrupt work visa program that brings huge numbers of lesser skilled immigrants to our shores. We are not talking about a couple of thousand tech workers, but more like 200k foreign tech workers a year. The motivation for this is purely to build a work force that is less expensive than home-grown talent.
As for a sense of entitlement, no one I work with feels that way. You work hard and invest time and effort into a career, you expect that career to grow. It's not. For me and those like me, the next step is into a different sector of tech, Corporate IT has had it. - sinurgy, on 11/28/2007, -0/+5I think you're being a little optimistic there slick, you won't be the one doing the banging!
- micahwilli, on 11/28/2007, -2/+6A few of these seem waaay too niche. For example maybe #1 could be expanded to be a general Geographic Information Systems (GIS) jobs. That would mean i make the list.
- MerryMortician, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4NO DOUBT.
- Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4You are a bad person. You should feel bad for saying that.
- smackhero, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4while i'm more of a web developer/graphic designer, i've had a similar experience with my previous employer. i was the in-house graphic designer and web developer at a local record label, but instead of actually doing graphic design/web development, i was mostly given menial tasks like putting together magazine ads/album layouts using artwork commissioned from outside designers and updating the website--for which i specifically designed an easy to use content management system so that i wouldn't be needed to update the site. I also became the IT guy at the office whenever the workstations needed to be updated/fixed or the network went down.
so, while i had a good relationship with my boss and enjoyed the work environment, i eventually got sick of my talents being wasted and doing work i was overqualified for. now, i'm freelancing and--at the moment--making well over 3x the money i was making at my previous position. - bubbadoo989, on 11/28/2007, -1/+5Terrible list, but begs the question: with a huge, politician-sponsored influx of cheap foreign labor (h1b), how could anyone say comp sci careers look bright. Salaries in my area are down around 40%, over the last two years, and the consulting market has largely dried up.
What's more, the future looks even bleaker... it doesn't matter for whom you vote... Barack Obama has been quoted as saying: "... there is no shortage of people, just a skills shoratge..." I don't know about Barack, but I've got lots of highly technical friends (java developers, dba's, etc.) who are either unemployed and ready to leave the field, or under-employed and under-paid. - HeatVision, on 11/28/2007, -1/+5"Internet Entrepreneur". Wow, that's pretty vague. Sounds like something you would see as one of the career choices during one of those correspondence education ads.
- Orderless, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4Way to throw buzzwords around without first understanding the meaning.
- BigBrother87, on 11/28/2007, -1/+5I'm sorry, RTFA. It's about where to go IN YOUR FIELD after you graduate with a DEGREE in the COMPUTER FIELD. They didn't include that you can drive a garbage truck either.
- SleepingOrange, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3oh snap.
- edwartica, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3Yeah, he's such a diva.
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3I started my career as a coder. I lived ANSI C. I moved on to C++ and C# later on...but I wasn't really happy. BUT, I did what I thought would make me the most money...Then the market went to crap after the .com bubble burst...
The best thing that happened is when the plug was pulled on a project I was working on. I fell into training. It's a great career choice for me, but lemme tell ya...not for everyone.
Moral of the story? Do what you like to do, don't let stupid lists like this drive your career choice. - tardpicard, on 11/28/2007, -1/+3...what??
- ucg1, on 11/28/2007, -1/+3Where do you live? Things aren't bad for software developers who are actually good at what they do. The problem is that most of the ones out there aren't.
Be good at what you do and you should have no problem with a software development job (I don't know about IT jobs, though). Living in a decent city helps too.
As for the H1b's, I know quite a few, and they are stuck doing the ***** jobs no one else wants. There is a cap on h1b now and much more restrictions, so there is less of that going on anyway.
Offshore outsourcing has largely backfired and is not as common anymore. - zwaldowski, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2I know. I'm thirteen and I'm unpaid in job #8.
- Daedalus17, on 11/28/2007, -1/+3Here is a thought experiment for you: What percentage of Climatologists got into the field because they "wanted to do something about global warming"?
- wrenchone, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2Their "3D Animation Technician" isn't even a real job. What they describe is easily 10 very different jobs done by different people...
- edwartica, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2In soviet Russia, Computer careers drive you!
Wait, that didn't come out right. - sd01, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2EXACTLY. Dumb article.
- hmunkey, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2I fear that in the future computer jobs will be outsourced. Indian and Chinese engineers can do these things just as well for a quarter of the price.
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2It's a good article, if you get tired of making sure TPS cover sheets go on all the reports going out now, despite the getting the memo eight times...
- netant, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1You still don't get it.
If I were a guidance counselor, giving advice on future IT jobs, and listed these turkeys, I should be fired. Training for a career is taking 4-7 years of your life, which could be spent making money, instead of paying a hundred thousand USD in collegiate education, for a job that will PROBABLY BE THERE long enough for you to recoup your investment costs.
What you don't understand is that you do not have to be a competent journalist to get a job on any non-financial periodical. You just have to be able to write up interesting articles and not be so incompetent that the reader (who will be knowlegable in the field) thinks you're incompetent. This is a guy who is definitely skirting the line. It doesn't matter that he gives himself a linguistic out. Most of these niches won't survive by the time you're done getting the schooling, or WORSE, end up being a buggy whip artisan a few years after that.
Examples: the reason why simulation modeller won't be a computer science technical niche is that people care about the answer it puts out, so they're going to hire the science specialist to design the model (whether its physicist, biologist, meteorologist, etc.), and they are going to be computer language competent enough to hire the "monkeys from India" to actually write the code. It would be nice if there was enough to the "modelling" theory to justify the need for a compsci specialist, but that's just not the case. Games programmer? 3-D graphics programmer??? Get real. Right now there are tons of game coding jobs available. TONS. But they pay garbage, and will always pay garbage. That's why there are so many jobs available.
What the newcomer to any industry fails to grasp is that the people who own these magazines are rich, and the advertisers they depend for their salaries are rich. What stories are getting planted are industries that want to hire CHEAP labor, so they tell these "journalists" there is a shortage of competent programmers. The bright people who read this think there's a job waiting for them, they put in the investment, only to realize later that they're screwed after they get out of school. The industry gets cheaper hires, the "journalist" gets his paycheck, but the fish have to learn a hard lesson. - LokitheComplex, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Because the pay is low in comparison with comparable professions.
The demand is low compared with the supply.
The hours are long and the security is low.
Sure people love their actual job but that does not make it a good career choice.
Its really a bit like recommending acting as a profession. - siekosunfire, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1I'm guessing this is similar to the work done by the geo-spatial intelligence groups. If so, it's definitely a very interesting field, with plenty of applications of theories from pattern recognition and computational intelligence. Plus, from what I've seen, there's definitely a huge drive for integrating everything with Google Earth.
- bubbadoo989, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Dude, it doesn't matter whether you vote Democratic or Republican, the h1b programs are backed by politicians from both sides of the aisle. In fact, if you look at voting records for raising visa limits, most Congressmen will often vote yes at one time and then vote no at another time. It's based on which lobbyist is funding our for-hire government that day.
Yes, sleepycoder, we do live in a capitalist society, but buying influence to shape legislation is not really capitalism, it's CORRUPTION. There's nothing capitalistic about stacking the deck to bring in and then exploit guest workers. In fact, it's the opposite of your socialist argument.
As for marketability, knock yourself out studying, it's so '80s. As far as I can tell, unless you're under 30, it's just no longer worth the effort. - antdude, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1I don't have that much money. Is there a loan for it?
- edwartica, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1Yeah, if I could find out how to make it pay, I would totally make a career move.
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