The 10 Best (And Worst) Jobs In 2014

[longknife]

(Or Why You Should Study Math More Betterer)

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/26/2014

Best Jobs of 2014 / Midlevel Income

1. Mathematician / $101,360
2. Tenured University Professor / $68,970
3. Statistician /$75,560
4. Actuary / $93,680
5. Audiologist / $69,720
6. Dental Hygienist / $70,210
7. Software Engineer / $93,350
8. Computer Systems Analyst / $79,680
9. Occupational Therapist /$75,400
10.Speech Pathologist / $69,870

Worst Jobs of 2014 / Midlevel Income

200. Lumberjack/ $24,340
199. Newspaper Reporter / $37,090
198. Enlisted Military Personnel / $28,840
197. Taxi Driver / $22,820 [been there, done that - never again]
196. Broadcaster / $55,380
195. Head Cook / $42,480
194. Flight Attendant $37,240
193. Garbage Collector / $22,970
192. Firefighter / $45,250
191. Corrections Officer / $38,970

Notice #2? As I shake my head, it's clear why our colleges and universities are cranking out graduates who are illiterate and ultra-liberal. No accountability.

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And, where's Politician on the list?

 

[SteadyMercury]

That article oversimplifies things a bit with the recommendation to go study math.

Some people just aren't math/science types, you could throw them into a math, computer science, or engineering program at a university and they aren't going to succeed. Even if they did manage to grind it out with lots of extra effect and tutoring they won't excel in the field after they graduate. Might as well recommend to those mathematicians there is even better money in professional baseball.

 

[DGS49]

What, exactly, is a mathemetician, and whom would he work for? I have no clue.

Dental hygienists make $70K? Wowzer.

Firefighters and corrections officers typically make gobs of overtime, doing basically nothing. Their earnings are a lot more than their base incomes.

And what's this with "Midlevel income"? Is that a different way of saying "median"?

 

[SteadyMercury]

What, exactly, is a mathemetician, and whom would he work for? I have no clue.

Some are academic but the skill itself is valued for its application (analysis problem solving etc.) in everywhere from financial modeling to operations research, statistics, and even biotech and energy. Many who studied math have another label, but it is based in math.

I majored in applied mathematics but have had a career as a software engineer, I wouldn't call myself a mathematician. My first job used a ton of math it was for a defense contractor, related to efficiently targeting strategic weapon systems. But the majority of it since has just been general software dev stuff, hardly any math used. Would say waste of math classes but CS majors took most of the applied stuff anyway.

 

[Mr. H.]

Many of the highest-paying jobs are at oil companies, where workers make an average salary of about $100,000, often with little-to-no experience or need for a college degree.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/28/pf/America_boomtown_jobs/

 

[JakeStarkey]

1. Mathematician / $101,360
2. Tenured University Professor / $68,970

educators are far more important than bloggers left or right or center