There are a lot of things to consider when you’re deciding your future career that you will work five days a week until you keel over and die. Usually you start by narrowing down your occupational options by what you love to do, what you are qualified to do and how much moolah is this gig gonna pay you.
However other huge factors include finding a career that actually offers opportunities and is still going to exist by the time you get out of high school, college or trade school. For example, manufacturing jobs in the U.S. have nearly disappeared completely because of globalization and automation.
Conversely, truck driving jobs have flourished. That is because you can’t outsource a tractor trailer driving job to someone in Malaysia and you can’t have a robot drive a truck to deliver goods. Yet.
You would have thought that because of Silicon Valley that California’s top job would have been software developer, but it’s truck driver. Surprisingly, Utah’s most common occupation is indeed software developer.
You may find this hard to believe, but the most common job in D.C. is lawyer. Shocking, that our nation’s capital is chock full of litigation.
Turns out that there are a lot of hungry people in Hawaii because the number one profession is cook.
Even there is more and more need for food, there are fewer and fewer farmers thanks to advances in farming that require less workers. Just in 1998, there were many more states where the most common job was farmer.
- Most Common Jobs In 1998
The second most popular line of work is secretary, but in 1978 secretaries dominated the job market.
So brush up on your CB lingo good buddy and get one of those wooden bead seat covers because pretty soon you’ll be driving your big rig between the ditches and avoiding Smokey.
[NPR]