The best 10 jobs for 2010 are Actuary, Software Engineer, Computer System Analysts, Biologist, Historian, Mathematician, Paralegal Assistant, Statistician, Accountant and Dental Hygienist. I personally think that the list of best jobs for 2010 is absurd. All of these are beyond difficult to obtain and all require high level of education and training. For someone who lost their job and does not have a degree, this is impossible to gain in a short period of time. Even for someone who has a degree but has to further advance their education, this is still a lot because that would mean that they would have to go back to school in order to fulfill these requirements which leads to it being time consuming and could possibly take yrs to get the degree the person needs (depending on where they are currently standing in their education). So what does the person do in the mean time? Remain jobless? There are no jobs listed that are common or easier to get which makes it unfair to those who do not have a degree in these fields of work to begin with as well as those with little or no education. I feel that there should have been 5 jobs listed of high level education and training and perhaps 5 best jobs listed that are more common or a bit easier to get.
I don't think that stress should be listed in job scores. I feel that everything else is appropriate to consider and be scored but stress shouldn't because not everyones views on stress is the same. Not everyones stress level is the same. Some get stressed easily than others and some people are able to take in a lot before it can be considered stress. Therefore how can one determine what jobs are more stressful than others when they are not in that field of work and don't consider stress to be the same as the next person? How can these jobs be considered the best and the worst if a portion of this conclusion is based on stress when stress levels fluctuate and can be opinionated? I feel stress shouldn't be looked at because each individual is different and view stress differently, in the work place and anywhere in general.
I've noticed that a few of the jobs that were listed as the worst were common jobs. I can't seem to understand how these decent paying common jobs can be the worst oppose to some listed as the "best". Also, I noticed that all the jobs that were listed as being the worst were very high in stress. If being a biologist and mathematician isn't stressful to a higher extent than what is listed, then I don't know what is (lol). I mean it's all in the eye of the beholder. If I love math and spend my free time solving math problems and calculating things than chances are I wont find being a mathematician too stressful oppose to someone who enjoys is but does not LOVE it. This also goes with what I mentioned earlier that stress should not be listed or judged and measured when considering a job unless it is determined by that one person rather than being a general overview.
I think those 5 criteria were vague and not to helpful if they really wanted to help us finding right job. Like you said, it is not sufficient to use stress as one of the criteria. because level of stress varies for different individuals, depending on either one loves what they doing or not.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on having education as one of the important basics to create such a list. They showed how much money you supposed to get choosing a job, but completely ignored how much money and time you should invest in education in order to get this job.
I think, this list is useless if you want to find a job that fits you.