Can you predict 3 secure*, fulfilling, and low-turnover career options for the next 5 years** in non-science/engineering/healthcare industries?
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February 22nd, 2009
*Providing a minimum salary of $40k with potential to ~$80–90k over 10 year track
**Assuming we emerge from the recession within the next 1–2 years
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What you are asking for is a bit like seeking the Holy Grail. I wish you great good luck in finding it, but I assume that every other sentient being is also seeking such a position (unless they’re in the science, engineering, or health care fields). Competition will be stiff.
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@laureth why wouldn’t people in science, engineering, or health care fields be seeking such a position?
(Because they’d be seeking positions in those fields, most likely.)
oh >.<
silly me
just out of curiousity, how secure are those fields?
The phrase: “welcome to the club” comes to mind.
According to Obama’s plan, education and IT should be doing better.
Education usually pays the lower end of your range there, IT more on the high side. My friends in IT (one in security the other in web development) make between 70–90K/year and are relatively stable.
My industry (graphic design) is very unstable but luckily my particular job is very stable. I also teach part-time and haven’t had too much trouble getting college courses for the past nine years.
How secure is a job in architechture?
Accountant
Lawyer
Therapist
**But I guess it depends on what you mean by “Fulfilling”
Credit counselor, repo man, any type of repair work.
E-Strategies and E-Commerce!
Cattle impregnantor. people love beef.
Wait for the purge of the financial industry to be complete and the regulation to ramp up, then that’s the safest place to be. Kinda like flying after there’s been a big plane crash.
Welder
Reliable contractor
Mortician
Or simply a competent handyman.
Work in a field you love, doing a job you care about.
There’s no such thing as job security; the best hedge is being good at what you do. You’re far more likely to do that if you love the field and care about your work and your job.
“Fulfilling” is entirely dependent on you. We don’t know what fulfills you.
And “low-turnover”—again, that’s about you. If you’re good at what you do, you’ll keep your job. And the way to be good at what you do…. well, I’ve already mentioned that.
There is no silver bullet for employment. The best strategy is to find something you love.
There are plenty of “secure” careers out there but they won’t be automatically fulfilling to you. You have to think a bit about what you you are like as a person and what you liked/disliked about your last job and that will clarify some things for you.
Here’s an example—someone has already suggested becoming a lawyer. Sure, that’s pretty “secure.” Some lawyers start at over $100K/Year, others start at $40K/Year. But, the lower paid one may be more fulfilled with his job. Let’s say your passion is to prevent elder abuse, you’re not going to be very happy with corporate law.
So, if you can list some of your specific qualities and interests, we could all probably provide more meaningful answers.
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Writer…..............freelance, magazine etc.
Newspapers (and therefor their hapless editors) are closing down left and right, sadly. Each morning’s headlines brings another sad story of the demise of the printed word.
Thousands of novelists make no money, or a pittance.
Freelance writers also need to keep their job at the car wash.
@Grisson I’m interested in that idea. I’m just wondering, do you have sources to back this up or is this your own viewpoint?
social worker, or phsycologist? Sorry if I am completly wrong.
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