Every year the government, magazines, news organizations, colleges and others involved in education and employment roll out a list of the best or top jobs for the year. They base these lists on various criteria–from pay to leisure time to coolness factor.
Most of the lists are base, in whole or in part, on information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports. These reports are based on data collected by the U.S. government on numbers of jobs created or eliminated by job type, industry or geographic area. The reports also provide big-picture information on salary growth (or lack thereof). This information is “cut up” and presented in multiple ways, depending on what the presenter is trying to demonstrate, whether it’s cities with greatest job growth percentages or that jobs in certain industries are poised to grow over the next five or ten years.
I love these lists. They’re a great place to start looking for a new career, as long as you don’t allow yourself to be swayed by the biases or agendas of the organization presenting the information. I generally read lists published by Fast Company, a magazine that targets creative and new media types. I like the list because it’s not generally filled with the basics–teacher, doctor, lawyer–though those jobs do often appear. But so do advertising and media jobs.
Here are the highlights of Fast Company’s 2006 list:
- Lawyer
- Personal financial advisor
- Sales manager
- Management analyst
- Computer and information systems manager
- Financial manager
- Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agent
- Marketing manager
- Computer software engineer
- Chiropractor
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