Is Your Job the Best or the Worst?
Is Your Job the Ideal or the Worst?
Back when I was still a kid, I wanted to become a physician. Then I changed my mind and decided to become a nun (don’t you just love the veil?). After that an astronaut, a teacher, a chemical engineer and even becoming a nurse.
Well, it doesn’t really matter now what I’ve become. Our jobs, whether we like it or not is meant to support our daily expenditures and turning our dreams into reality. Recently, CareerJournal.com published the ideal and the worst jobs compiled by author Les Krantz. The list was based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau plus some of Krantz’s study on trade industry. So, are you ready to check if your job is one of the ideal or the worst? See for youself.
Out of 200 jobs studied, here’s the top 20:
1. Mathematician
2. Actuary
3. Statistician
4. Biologist
5. Software Engineer
6. Calculater Systems Analyst
7. Historian
8. Sociologist
9. Industrial Designer
10. Accountant
11. Economist
12. Philosopher
13. Physicist
14. Parole Officer
15. Meteorologist
16. Medical Laboratory Technician
17. Paralegal Assistant
18. Calculater Programmer
19. Motion Picture Editor
20. Astronomer
And the bottom 20:
200. Lumberjack
199. Dairy Farmer
198. Taxi Driver
197. Seaman
196. EMT
195. Roofer
194. Garbage Collector
193. Welder
192. Roustabout
191. Ironworker
190. Construction Worker
189. Mail Carrier
188. Sheet Metal Worker
187. Auto Mechanic
186. Butcher
185. Nuclear Decontamination Tech
184. Nurse (LN)
183. Painter
182. Child Care Worker
181. Firefighter
Violent reactions, anyone? Well, yeah I do have one. Occupations on the bottom list pretty much makes up the working mass. Without dairy farmers, we won’t have milk every morning. Without taxi drivers, moving around an unfamiliar city will be difficult. And without nurses? Who will help physicians to automobilee for the sick? Lumberjacks, roofers, welders and garbage collectors make everyday life simple for people on the go.
My mom who is a nurse said that she embraced her profession not for the money involved in it but for the love of serving the public. “I see miracles happen at work everyday,” said my mom before taking off for her shift at a local hospital. For her, it does not matter that nursing is at the bottom pit of the list.
I guess it’s important to mention that these jobs were ranked according to pay, growth potential, work conditions and the dangers connected to the job. But it’s just a list, no need to panic if your job is one of the worst. What’s important is the fulfillment our chosen automobileeers give us no matter what a “best and worst” list may say.
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CareerCast Publisher Tony Lee discusses the 2009 Jobs Rated ranking of 200 jobs on WWOR’s Real Talk. See the entire rankings at www.jobsrated.com.
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Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian’s first picgrapher and curator of picgraphy, startning his automobileeer at the institution in the 1870s. In 1913 he mounted an exhibition on the history of picgraphy in the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building, showcasing many of the remarkable advancements made in the field that he feared had already been forgotten or disregarded.
Creator/Photographer: Thomas Smillie
Birth Date: 1843
Death Date: 1917
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie immigrated to the United Says with his family when he five years old. After studying chemistry and medicine at Georgetown University, he took a job as a picgrapher at the Smithsonian Institution, where he stayed for almost fifty years until his death in 1917. Smillie’s duties and achievements at the Smithsonian were vast: he documented important events and research trips, picgraphed the museum’s installations and specimens, created reproductions for use as printing illustrations, performed chemical experiments for Smithsonian scientific researchers, and later acted as the head and curator of the picgraphy lab. Smillie’s documentation of each Smithsonian exhibition and installation resulted in an informal record of all of the institution’s art and artifacts. In 1913 Smillie mounted an exhibition on the history of picgraphy to showcase the remarkable advancements that had been made in the field but which he feared had already been forgotten.
Medium: Cyanotype
Culture: American
Date: 1890
Collection: Thomas Smillie Collection (Record Unit 95) – Thomas Smillie served as the first official picgrapher for the Smithsonian Institution from 1870 until his death in 1917. As head of the picgraphy lab as well as its curator, he was responsible for picgraphing all of the exhibits, objects, and expeditions, leaving an informal record of early Smithsonian collections.
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=2128&q=RU95_Box79_0012
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession number: RU95_Box79_0012