Late in the 21st century there will be NO safe jobs. Everything hard will be done by computers, everything tedious, dirty, and dangerous by robots (including warfare). People will probably die of boredom, just sitting around at home and watching reality TV all day.
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According to CareerCast’s “Best Jobs of 2014”
report, employers are paying big bucks to lure employees that
understand data, code and math (which really translates to “data
analytics”).
In fact, jobs that depend on these geeky skills comprise
half of the top 10 jobs of 2014.
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Data analysis is so important to the modern enterprise, in fact, that one executive recruiter declared,
“In 15 years, if you don’t have a solid quant background, you might
have a permanent pink slip,” simply because “so much of decision-making
in corporations is going so quickly toward having a quant-foundation.”
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Here are the top 10 jobs of 2014, along with the median income for the position:
- Mathematician / $101,360
- Tenured University Professor / $68,970
- Statistician /$75,560
- Actuary / $93,680
- Audiologist / $69,720
- Dental Hygienist / $70,210
- Software Engineer / $93,350
- Computer Systems Analyst / $79,680
- Occupational Therapist /$75,400
- Speech Pathologist / $69,870
Among the worst jobs of 2014 were the lumberjack (No. 200) and the
newspaper reporter (No. 199). While it’s unclear what the lumberjack
should do, famed statistician Nate Silver offers clear guidance for journalists: Learn to code.
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Link: http://readwrite.com/2014/04/28/best-jobs-2014-math-big-data-code-programming
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Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary.
Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin.
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How accurate is this list if no medical specialties made the cut? Must say I'm surprised that dental hygienists earn such a handsome salary.
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