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Salary.com and Money magazine just released a list of the top fifty jobs.
Here's how they did the rankings:
Things that are bad are less than $50,000 average salary, dangerous, and small field with little room for advancement.
Things that are good are a growing field, low stress, flexibility in hours and working environment, creativity, and easy advancement.
Here are the top ten:
1. Software engineer
2. College professor
3. Financial advisor
4. Human resource advisor
5. Physician assistant
6. Market research analyst
7. Computer/IT analyst
8. Real estate appraiser
9. Pharmacist
10. Psychologist
I dove for this list as soon as I saw it, but the rankings are not as useful as you might imagine. However it made me happy to see that psychologist is up there at the top — it's hard enough to go to a therapist, so I at least want to know that while I'm talking she is enjoying herself.
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Why is a therapist necessarily a 'she'?
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A therapist, of course, is not necessarily a she. Because we all know this, I don't think it matters what gender I use. In a perfect world, English would not demand that each singular pronoun have a gender. But it's the nature of the language, and at this point in the development of English, substituting a non-gendered, plural pronoun when the sentence does not call for one actually serves to deperaonlize the writing, I think. So, it's a stylistic choice thoroughout the whole blog.
–Penelope
Posted by Pappy Jo on 05/24/2007 at 09:59am | permalink | Reply to this comment
Pharmacist is #9???? Wow Im a pharmacist and I think it sort of sucks: long hours, lots of stress, little room for creativity, inflexible schedule, not much advancement, and working with the general public in a retail situation leaves A LOT to be desired… well I suppose if I could think of a better way to make more money I would (without going back to school)… #9.. unbelievable
Posted by KLORPh on 08/12/2007 at 08:06pm | permalink | Reply to this comment
Software Engineer??? Um… working under tight deadlines, sitting in front of a computer 8+ hours a day writing code, getting stressed over bugs and what not, being micromanaged, having little or no control is low stress?!?
Quite the opposite
Posted by john on 10/02/2008 at 11:18am | permalink | Reply to this comment
Less than $50,000 a year, dangerous and little room for advancement?
Sounds like a normal day for a Factory Worker.
I know 10,000+ people who dream of taking the #10 job. If your working, in todays economy (regardless of education or experience) that makes it a Top 10.
Posted by Paul Godines on 10/15/2008 at 05:33pm | permalink | Reply to this comment
Certainly a really awesome post. Well i really do agree that being a financial adviser is one o the best jobs. It really is great. Great post Penelope. keep it up. Cheers
Posted by finance review on 04/20/2009 at 09:34pm | permalink | Reply to this comment
Interesting criteria…
A note that some of these jobs might be nice to have (e.g. #2 College Professor – should be clarified as "Tenured College Professor") but not necessarily a nice job to acquire; the prereqs can be grueling!
Posted by JMF on 05/20/2009 at 11:08pm | permalink | Reply to this comment