ISSUE
2
1996
require
physical
therapy.
The
current
total
workforce
is
some
90,
000
people
with
a
10
yearjob
growth
of
some
88.
Typical
starting
salary
is
$36,
000
with
a
5
year
salary
of
$45,
000
and
a
potential
salary
of
$100,
000.
It
rates
about
3
on
the
coolness
factor
scale
and
about
4
on
the
burnout
factor
scale.
10.
Cyberdetective
Security
problems
with
public
and
private
computer
systems
are
mounting,
and
so
is
the
need
for
experts
to
prevent
and
pursue
cyberspace
crime.
Who's
hiring?
Just
about
everybody.
In
recent
months,
hackers
have
penetrated
systems
linked
to
the
Internet
at
IBM,
General
Electric,
and
Sprint.
Demand
for
high-tech
detectives
from
both
government
and
the
private
sector
is
ready
to
surge.
The
current
total
workforce
is
some
10,
000
people
with
a
10
year
job
growth
of
some
45.
Typical
starting
salaries
is
$36,
500
with
a
5
year
salary
of
$45,
000
and
a
potential
salary
of
$
80,
000.
It
rates
about
6
on
the
coolness
factor
scale
and
about
3
on
the
burnout
factor
scale.
For
every
new
career,
one
old
one
gets
wiped
out.
Here
are
the
dog
jobs
to
avoid.
1.
Bank
Teller
Who
needs
'em.
That
what
ATM's
are
for.
The
telling
fact:
Bank
teller
is
one
of
the
few
jobs
projected
to
actually
decline
in
number
over
the
next
decade.
2.
Telephone
Operator
Again,
technology
has
obliterated
tens
of
thousands
of
jobs
for
telephone
operators
and
the
trend
will
continue.
A
28
decline
in
the
U.S.
is
projected
for
1992
to
2005,
eliminating
89,000
jobs.
The
telling
fact:
44,
000
AT&T
operators
handled
37.5
million
calls
in
1984.
In
1994,
15,000
operators
handled
160
million
calls.
3.
Factory
Worker
Rapid
advances
in
automation
and
technology
have
eliminated
entire
job
categories;
furthermore,
"routine
jobs"
are
being
farmed
out
to
low
paid
workers
in
developing
countries.
The
telling
fact:
Our
neighbors
to
the
south
have
lost
some
three
million
manufacturing
jobs
since
1980.
Canadian
stats
are
unavailable,
but
the
trend
applies
to
us
just
as
much.
4.
Newspaper
Reporter
The
future
is
not
newsprint.
The
number
of
daily
newspapers
are
at
an
all
time
low,
and
it
probably
will
not
ever
rise
again.
With
the
technology
revolution,
look
toward
multimedia.
The
telling
fact:
11.3
of
journalism
school
graduates
joined
newspapers
and
news
services
in
1989,
just
8.2
followed
in
1992.
5.
Corporate
Middle
Manager
First
line
supervisors
are
being
axed
as
companies
strip
bare
their
hierarchies.
Technology
and
streamlining
mean,
again,
that
corporate
types
had
better
have
a
specialty.
The
telling
fact:
White
collar
unemployment
actually
exceeds
blue
collar
for
the
first
time
in
history.
6.
Government
Bureaucrat
Thousands
every
year
look
to
the
government
as
an
employer
of
steady
employment
but
also
cutbacks
cut
deeper
at
the
same
rate.
The
Telling
Fact:
The
largest
national
superpower
in
the
world
(the
U.S.
again)
eliminated
over
100,000
federal
jobs
over
the
last
two
years.
Bureaucracy
will
on
get
thinner
in
our
only
country
as
well.
7.
Specialist
Physician
Nothing
wrong
with
becoming
a
doctor,
but
be
careful
what
kind.
Specialists
currently
outnumbered
primary-care
physicians
two-to-one,
but
the
experts
say
we
need
a
50-50
split.
Allergists
and
thoracic
surgeons
are
seeing
negative
growths
in
their
fields.
The
telling
fact:
87
of
the
projected
surplus
of
about
50,
000
physicians
in
2000
will
be
in
non-primary
care
fields.
8.
Farmer
No
surprise
here.
The
reasons
are
simple:
the
continued
growth
of
acreage
of
farms,
the
advent
of
technology
to
make
them
more
productive
and
the
natural
elimination
of
small
family
farms.
The
telling
fact:
It
seems
like
nobody
lives
in
Saskatchewan
anymore.
80
of
the
farms
would
go
under
tomorrow
if
their
subsidies
were
cut
off.
9.
Wall
StreetBay
Lawyer
Companies
are
cutting
down
legal
costs.
As
I
mentioned
before,
para
legals
are
handling
research
that
used
to
be
done
by
first
year
associates.
The
telling
fact:
Two
bigs
and
prestigious
New
York
firms,
Shea
&
Gould
and
Lord
Day
&
Lord,
Barrett
Smith,
shut
down
last
year.
10.
Mathematician
Pure
mathematics,
the
stuff
of
blackboard
equation
on
college
and
university
cam
puses,
is
not
a
huge
field
to
begin
with
about
16,
000
jobs
across
the
continent.
But
expected
reductions
in
search
and
development
mean
much
slower
than
slower
than
average
growth.
Math
wonks
need
to
combine
their
skills
with
computer
science,
engineering
or
operations
research
to
survive.
The
telling
fact:
A
microscopic
8
total
growth
in
jobs
through
2005.
Figures
like
that
kind
of
make
you
feel
that
a
certain
few
instructors
we
know
should
assign
a
little
less
homework
in
appreciation
of
the
jobs
that
they
have.
This
bottom
ten
list
does
not
necessarily
mean
that
corporate
lawyers,
newspaper
journalists,
and
government
administrators
should
ditch
their
fields
pronto.
But
they,
and
anyone
considering
those
fields,
might
want
to
think
about
it,
especially
if
related
options
appear
more
attractive.
Some
of
the
professions
on
this
list
will
shrink
because
of
natural
economic
factors.
Others
will
suffer
because
of
exceedingly
tough
competition.
At
least
two
are
destined
for
virtual
extinction
within
the
next
decade
or
so.
Fifty
years
ago,
steel
and
autoworkers
were
set
for
life.
Twenty
years
ago,
data
processors
were
all
the
rage.
Ten
years,
ago
talented
people
were
falling
all
over
each
other
to
train
on
Wall
Street.
When
you
choose,
choose
carefully.
Make
sure
your
career
won't
disappear
with
the
next
cycle.
And
look
for
a
job
that
you
can
be
happy
with.