Top 10 Jobs for the next decade.......

[galileoreloaded]

http://www.wbur.org/npr/122123729

"Six of the top seven fastest-growing occupations are low-skill, low-wage jobs.

Katz says the challenge is to move those jobs up the skills ladder. There's no reason, he says, that home health care workers couldn't be better educated to provide patients with greater value and, as a result, command higher wages to improve their own living standards.

"So professionalizing those types of jobs, we could have a very optimistic vision of an economy," Katz says."

Please discuss your impending feudal servitude, slave.

[Romulox]

1. This country requires a massive new influx of cheap labor to keep up with the demands for the future

:shrug:

[Quantess]

2. You think so? What about all the unemployed Americans right here and now?

[Romulox]

4. I must've dropped this: :sarcasm: nt

[Quantess]

9. Ha! You had me going.

[HeresyLives]

3. Utter silliness.

:rofl:

[galileoreloaded]

5. The administrations projections or the tertiary nature of future employment??

ooh, pray tell!!

[tonysam]

7. I am glad somebody has written the truth instead of this crap

about the "fastest-growing occupations" which means absolutely nothing because most of THOSE jobs have relatively few openings.

This list does. It's the same old list of mostly low-wage jobs.

[HeresyLives]

10. If people want to confuse low-wage temp jobs

for teen-age students, with professions and careers there's nothing I can say that will change the mind of luddite pessimists. :rofl:

[tonysam]

11. Those are absolute job openings

regardless of the field. Fastest-growing jobs lists are scams because they encourage people to go into fields where the openings are not there. I am sorry people like you look down on people who work for an honest living as sales clerks, health aides, and clerical workers. It says more about you than anything.

I fucking hate snobbery.

[HeresyLives]

12. Only if yer looking for low-wage temp jobs.

Fucking hate what you want. That doesn't change reality. :rofl:

[tonysam]

6. Postsecondary teachers?

Boy, anybody who goes into that field is in for a rude awakening. It's becoming increasingly difficult for people to become tenured college teachers. They are mostly temps anymore.

[western mass]

22. yup, knock this one off the list

the only "growth" in college-level teaching is for part-time, no benefits, below-living-wage, short-term-contract adjunct and temp instructors. I suspect that's what's been counted to make it on this list.

[DJ13]

8. You cant move those jobs up the skills ladder

The cheap bastards offering the lower paying jobs dont want to pay for better workers.

Otherwise they could already hire from the millions of unemployed with the desired skills by paying more.

[tonysam]

13. Most of those jobs are traditionally female jobs

They aren't "supposed" to pay living wages because there is a "man" out there supporting these women.

[Tunkamerica]

18. Most aren't. Several are. Your point is taken though.

[girl gone mad]

15. Let's be honest, we all know how this will end.

The worker will invest his or her time and money becoming more skilled, only to see the job insourced/outsourced to someone from a cheaper labor pool.

[Better Today]

14. My daughter works in home health at management level now after

6 years as a grunt while putting herself through college. She insists that this is wrong. Wages are based on the Medicare and Medicaid payouts, so as long as those are going down, all the education in the world won't get the caregivers higher wages. Around here in the past two years the wages for caregivers has dropped on average $1.50/hour with some places paying minimum wage with raises of $.25/hr possible at an employee's annual reviews. Even in management my degreed daughter makes less than $30K and works her arse off.

Slave labor is right. Calling these professional jobs with any hint of professional pay is ridiculous.

[kickysnana]

16. Home Health Aides

Almost always part time. You have to provide your own transportation and in some cases supplies. Salaries are $7.50-$12 an hour. Soon you will have to have to take a certified course before you can be hired. Usually no or very poor benefits. Working conditions are often poor.
Medicare is slashing hours allowed for clients leaving clients in dangerous situations. Some agencies are good some are very bad.

Nobody can earn a living with this work.

[xfundy]

17. Hey wait a minute!

Don't forget how Bush & Cheeeeeeney tried to reclassify "hamburger flipping" as a "manufacturing job," because those bastards knew their creation was coming to life.

They should have classified it as "executive level" instead. Hell, soon it may be.

[flyarm]

19. #1. McDonalds...#2. Walmart..n/t

[M155Y_A1CH]

23. Here is the list

You are right on the money with your reply. :hi:

1. Registered nurses

2. Home health aides

3. Customer service representatives

4. Food preparation and serving workers

5. Personal and home care aides

6. Retail salespersons

7. Office clerks

8. Accountants

9. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants

10. Postsecondary teachers

Wow, what kind of improved education will a person need to get the newly professionalized WM and McD jobs?

[flyarm]

24. we are building our next recruits for the military!! when the youth graduate college with no good

jobs avail..they will go to where the only good pay is and it seems to me..this is a better tool for the military industrial complex..its a draft without a draft!!

The MIC will be the only place left with good pension, and good medical health care plans!

[M155Y_A1CH]

25. So true,

I just don't know what they are going to do with us oldsters. Soylent Green?
I know the military would never take me (too fat and arthritic) except for cannon fodder?

[lib2DaBone]

20. Of course they want better skills, more productivity and lower wages..

It's Reaganism.. free market capitalism for the wealthy... trickle down conservative values at their finest. The problem is... what trickles down lately does not smell like roses.

I don't know if the person who wrote this article has been out looking for a job, but the name of the game is longer hours, minimum wage, and more productivity.(1 person is now required to do the work 4 people used to do). The new employment environment (or unemployment as the case may be) means bust the workers down until they are on their knees, and then kick them for good measure. Work them like rented mules with crappy hours, forced side-work, off-the-clock mandatory BS and abusive managers.

THERE ARE NO HEALTH CARE BENEFITS OFFERED ANYMORE...ANYWHERE. I was told at an interview today (for a minimum wage position) that only "Management" is offered benefits, all other personnel are required to purchase their own health care.. no matter how many hours a week you work. (And I have a college Degree BTW. I know, that and a quarter will get me a cup of coffee)

And, oh yes, the Real-I.D. Law went into effect Jan 1. You are now required to bring your birth certificate and 2 pieces of "approved i.d." to the interview.

St. Ronnie Reagan is smiling in his grave, Goldman Sachs is happy beyond all words, and Mr. Obama? Meh... he'll think about it and get back to you.

[TwixVoy]

21. At least they were honest

We are a nation of clerks.... who sell things to other clerks.