1. Software Engineer
2. Mathematician
3. Actuary
4. Statistician
5. Computer Systems Analyst
6. Meteorologist
7. Biologist
8. Historian
9. Audiologist
10. Dental Hygienist
"Would that it were so," I say as the wife of somebody who occupies the first 4 slots on the list (4 and 3, a little more than 1 and 2). Still, in spite of these or any other rankings, I am intimately convinced that the best job of this or any other year is being a scholar of Hispanic literature.
Historians making it to the list is curious and encouraging. Is it true that historians are so highly appreciated? That would be really great.
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Many years ago, I had job number 5. Would I say that it ranked that high? Hmmm...
I'm very thankful to have landed on that path; one that provided for me more than adequatedly, and one that challenged me intellectually.
But it was stressful! The corporate world, I think. LOL
I'd highly recommend it though.
Best wishes to you for a peaceful and fulfilling new year.
Thank you! Same to you, Anita.
I agree that being a professor of Spanish is the best job possible. They actually pay me to read, teach, and write about Spanish poetry. It's unbelievable.
I really doubt historians are #8.
According to one comment in the page, these are jobs for someone with skills with 'Historian' the data anlaysis software package. Making them more part of #4 Statistician.
http://global.wonderware.com/EN/Pages/WonderwareHistorian.aspx
I'm sure that the mathematicians that put the job into the number two slots are the same ones that think that a mathematician will have done all his best work before the age of 25, ie: The ones who stopped doing research in mathematics when they left academia.
I am a 66 year old mathematician who has never left academia. I have to say that I did what most people regard as my best work in my 30's. I still do some research, but not at the rate I did when I was younger. Partially, this is because i work on much harder problems than I did when I was striving for promotion, so my work is still interesting and deep, but not as flashy as it was once, I fear.
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