Many Sectors Are Adding Jobs: Where to Find Them - WSJ

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Here's a look at where the jobs are now:

Internet: The big Web players are back.... Securities: Wall Street is hiring again, big-time -- thanks to the stock-market turnaround of the past few months... Health care: In the year ended February 2004, physicians' offices hired an additional 45,000 employees, outpatient care centers grew by 9,000 workers, and hospitals added 58,600 people. The hiring is due in part to greater patient traffic, driven by active, health-obsessed boomers.

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Real Estate: In 2003, more houses in the U.S. were bought and sold than ever before... One reason for the jump in the latter category is the huge numbers of laid-off workers in other job areas who turned to jobs in real estate as a second career... Education: Teaching and other education-related careers also attract job-changers, but there's a difference: The need here is much likelier to be long term. Due in part to the large number of teachers who are now retiring,

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Regions: Job hunters can often boost their chances substantially if they're willing to relocate. Areas of Southern California, such as Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties... And then there's Las Vegas... The growth isn't only coming in low-paying jobs in restaurants and casinos, but in technical fields as well. Five more hospitals are being planned in Clark County, whose significant health-care industry is drawing a wide range of pharmaceutical and research companies.

Loudoun County, Va., a half-hour outside Washington, boasted the nation's largest percentage increase in employment over the year ended June 2003, at 5.2%. That growth rate is due in part to the large number of small defense subcontractors in the county that benefited from the growth in business fueled by national security spending and the war in Iraq... In southwest Florida's Lee County, jobs grew by almost 9,000, an increase of 4.6%, over the period. Credit a number of companies that have relocated to the region, drawn by the low cost of doing business, inexpensive housing and the absence of a state income tax.


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[SCDem]

1. Orange county

Too bad the jobs are where no one can afford to live.

[mike6640]

3. I hear that.

I work in computers up here north of San Francisco. Managed to pull my job off of the chopping block this year, at least for a while. Always hovering on the edge.

Prices of homes here in the north bay continue to climb at an unrealistic pace in relation to earning power. I have to commute 36 miles one way to live in an affordable area. The only reason I stay is because i bought my house back in 97, at the end of a 'flat' period in real estate. There is no way on earth I could afford to live here otherwise.

[sadiesworld]

2. The RE boom is on its last legs and the health care field will be

saturated in a couple of years...prospective students are being turned away from overcrowded nursing programs. IMHO.

[DemNoir]

4. This is breaking news?

Maybe, there should be a "Breaking Propaganda" forum. No matter how bad the economy is doing there are always pockets were someone is hiring, big deal.