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Best Jobs of 2011
- jdminhbg 16y agoIt's nice to compare lists like this to the constant wailing and gnashing of teeth in places on the internet where software careers are discussed.
- martythemaniak 16y agoI went to school during right after the crash and during the height of the outsourcing fears (remember the 2004 election rhetoric?) and I'm pretty sure both of those contributed greatly to the profession's outlook. CS and CompEng enrollments have plummeted while the demand keeps on growing and growing. Definitely a great time to be competent software engineer.
- sfphotoarts 16y agoThey forgot Steve.
- sz 16y agoI was surprised to see Mathematician as #2. That contradicts everything I've read about math careers on HN.
- lmkg 16y agoThis would make sense if they're counting Operations Research as a type of Mathematician. Those are the people who design the algorithms (not necessarily write the code) for air flight planning, supply-network chains, personnel scheduling, and most forms of resource allocation. Lots of applications in resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, military, and infrastructure design. This assumes that they're talking about "Mathematician" as a career, and not just what you can expect with a Math major. If you have a degree in math, you can get quite a high-paying job in a broad range of other industries (like programming and finance, also on the list) because people will just assume you're the smartest person they've ever met.
- Natsu 16y ago> If you have a degree in math, you can get quite a high-paying job in a broad range of other industries (like programming and finance, also on the list) because people will just assume you're the smartest person they've ever met. I do get people who assume that, especially when they hear what a CMS degree consists of, but I have yet to work out the high-paying job bit. At work, I mostly only get to do 2D Euclidean geometry, where people seem amazed that you can find mutually tangent circles to make windows look nice.
- twodayslate 16y agoSystems?
- modoc 16y agoHow does a Historian have almost twice the stress of a software engineer?
- jdminhbg 16y agoTrying to make book deadlines?
- 5teev 16y agoProbably that old "publish or perish" thing.
- jhpriestley 16y agoThey do not measure stress directly, but base it on a rather narrow rubric of objective factors such as physical demands and travel. http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/2011-jobs-rated-methodology http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/2011-jobs-rated-methodo...
- pedanticfreak 16y agoLooking at the actual jobs that get pulled up by clicking on "historian," it looks like they are incorrectly identifying engineering jobs that use a product called "Historian" or talk about "historian data" from monitoring devices as actual jobs for historians. I would think even a rudimentary spot check would have caught such a glaring error before they published the article. Credibility fail.
- fredoliveira 16y agoI'm surprised at this mainly for the stress figures. I don't know if this is the case for everyone else, but I would assume some of those positions would have much higher figures for stress - namely software engineers and actuaries.
- shortlived 16y agoYeah that was very surprising especially since the stress number was the lowest for software engineers. I have way more stress than a dental hygienist.
- BrandonM 16y agoSo when you screw up you have the potential to fuck up someone's teeth, draw blood, or generally cause pain and discomfort to your client? Personally, I just edit and re-run the program.
- shortlived 16y agoWe're talking about a hygienist not a dentist. They do teeth cleanings and assist the doc'. And having just gotten my teeth cleaned yesterday by my dental student sister, I can comfortably say that there is not that much room for really fucking things up. Yeah, maybe you can nic someone in the gums with the pick, but that's about it.
- BrandonM 16y agoI just had my teeth cleaned today. The hygienist did an exemplary job and still my teeth and gums are sore. Perhaps there's no worry with healthy teeth, but someone who has brittle teeth or a somewhat-hidden cavity could definitely receive damage at the hands of a careless hygienist. That's not to mention the general stench of some of that crap that gets picked out, the filthiness of some people's mouths, spending a half hour or more hunched over someone with bad breath, and the opportunity for someone (especially a child) to bite you while you're working. I'll take software engineer, please.
- mildweed 16y agoLiving in the midwest, I always hate looking at national average salaries. My cost of living is great, but its always an ego hit to see numbers like that. Either that or I need to get a better paying software engineering job :/
- bherms 16y agoI feel the same way... 24 yrs old in Indiana and only making $45k + benefits. Granted I never finished my degree (12c short)... :\ I'd like to see lists like this normalized by region taking into acct cost of living, etc. Also, I wonder if outliers are chopped off here -- ie: top google software engineers making several hundred thousand/yr.
- klbarry 16y agoHistorian? That blows my mind, who, besides academics, hires historians? I understand studying history is vital to being a competent executive/decision maker, but no one hires solely on that.
- Timmy_C 16y agoI had a friend who did history research in Hollywood for movie companies. That is one example of a non-academic historian. Heck, you could even say that some news reporters and non-fiction book authors are modern day historians.
- bherms 16y agoThe best job of 2011 is the one that makes you happy.
- gacba 16y agoActually, I'm scared that the florists and cashiers will start applying for programming jobs again after attending a DeVry Insitute program or something similar. I remember suffering through this during the DotCom boom...it sucked.