I'm number 23. Feels good, man.

Not one job on there produces something worthwhile.

The best job in America is the one you're happy and fulfilled doing.

me=3. feels good bro

That's can't possibly be right; African Americans make up a pretty large part of our population; how on earth could such a tiny fraction of them be in the workforce.

>>8147616

I suggest that you try racism!

>>8147497

Its funny that in that whole pyramind, I could not find not one possible engineering major but tons of jobs that can be had with either a business major from a good school (Top 50) or a Accounting Major. Just look at CPAs, go to a decent state school that's recruited by the Big 4 Accounting Cos (usually the best one in your state), graduate with a job, work your ass off for a year, get CPA and kick back.

I've seen this before, and it's largely bullshit.

College professor, for example? It takes a huge amount of time, effort, and luck to climb your way up to a secure professorship. The vast majority of PhDs never make it. Just getting a PhD is very difficult, and afterwards you are taking postdocs (or low-level faculty, if you're lucky) for absolute shit pay with insane hours, especially considering your high degree of education. And that's for SCIENCE professors. I imagine it's far worse for humanities PhDs.

Actually, looking at this chart, almost all of these positions are either very low-availability or very high barriers to entry. And they are all quite high-stress. There is a reason they have high salaries, after all.

No niggers only make up 10% of the population. You are just misled by how much bitching is done by them.

It seems silly to rank jobs by job satisfaction, since the jobs that are satisfying will differ from person to person. I'd be much happier as a PA than a systems engineer.

Whats a job that doesn't suck?
Nonexistant. Oh, did I set that up like a joke because its not, all jobs suck and rightfully so, they are JOBS.

>>8147700

you realize all good jobs are hard to get, right?

>>8147762
That's my point. This chart is listing the best "jobs", but it's basically just a list of the top level of various careers. Holy shit, the jobs at the top of a career ladder are nice? Stop the presses!

Basically, the chart is deceptive--it really should list "best careers". Many of the jobs listed in the OP's would be significantly lower if you take into account the total effort needed to get them and the amount of opportunity cost each requires.

Mathematician = #6 for 2010. Fuck year.

I'm a little shocked Historians beat us out, though, particularly with the shitty salary they get...

I agree, it's a flawed ranking, but it's not really possible to quantify job satisfaction, the difficulty of getting a job, and various other factors.

Point is, if soulless robots were suddenly given these jobs (and credentials), the most successful robots would be those in the top tiers.

>Implying government jobs don't have the highest security

Seriously, this is why I love being a civil servant. While millions of people are losing their jobs, I legally can't be fired. Also, the pay isn't bad, after I while I will get a pretty good pension and I genuinely like what I do.

>>8147831

i think you are ignoring the one thing that makes people happier than anything else in the world.

God, you people that say 'I want to be a(n) X because statistically, X's make the most money' are fucking retarded and will end up either killing yourselves or working in retail.

Do what you love; love what you do. I'm employed as a graphic designer. Sure, I'm barely above the poverty line, but I absolutely love going to work every day. I get to sit at a computer and be an artist, and while the money is tight, I'm independent, out of debt and happy as a fucking clam.

>>8147939
>he thinks he'll never have a financial emergency

>>8147958
>Implies that I don't have a plan

I'm an eagle scout, bro. Be prepared and all that.

Milfag here, planning on being an Intelligence Analyst after i get out of the Air Force.
yay median salary of ~80k

>>8147958
>Implying that our society isn't rigged such that 95% of all people are doomed to be one or two steps away from financial disaster at any time no matter what they do

>>8148054
I was talking to you earlier, bro.

Mathematics Armyfag here.

Hopefully I'll see you around in the NSA building someday...

>>8147980
dude, what's your plan?

>>8148083
That'd be fucking sweet, bro.
Though if we did, WE'D NEVER KNOW IT.

>Software Developer
>Median salary of $79,400
>Other IT jobs with high salaries
Haha, guess they aren't taking the industry standard of 60-80 hour work weeks into account, are they? Most people in IT are such libertarianfags that they are incapable of recognizing that, on average, they get seriously fucked over by employers.

im actually working as #1 right now
except i make half that much because I'm an intern

rofl

>>8148121
>60-80 hours a week
I wish, that much overtime would make me a rich man.
I work 36 hours a week. (every other friday off yeeaaaaah)

My bachelor degree trains me either for number 1 or number 30. I don't know, what's the difference between an IT systems engineer and an IT network engineer?

>>8148121
This. I'm a Network Engineer and build companies office networks. I make fat bank but regularly work 14hr days and odd hours. It's normal for me to work from 9am to 3am the next day.

>>8148111

things like this make me think about the internet and how many people have read things i've written via all the comments on things, various website posts, etc. and how many of them i've come in contact with in real life. and how i'll NEVER KNOW.

(think about it, depending on how much you've posted, your reader count could easily be in the tens of thousands. TENS OF THOUSANDS.)

>>8148246
network would be more hardware, systems is more software

>>8147598
This.

I flip burgers, and busk on street corners.

I make roughly 2000 a month.

Its awesome.

>lawyer
>good career

Maybe 3 years ago.

Wait, wait, are you serious? I'm finishing up my Information Technology degree... I just wanted it so I could be a secretary. Damn. Guess I'm not doing that!

>>8148121
This is the 21st century. If you aren't working a 60 hour work week you aren't even trying.

>>8148517
That's a good little serf. Don't even think about complaining, much less in fighting to regain the labor standards that have been eroded for the last 40 years. Just sit back, watch some TV during your few hours off each day, and get used to the feeling of that corporate cock in your asshole.

What's the difference between an IT systems engineer and an IT network engineer?

>>8148820
The first is a digital repairguy, the second is a digital plumber.

>>8148755
May i ask how you suggest this would be changed?

>>8148820
i guess system engineers develops softwares and inteligent systems for security, why telecomm engineers work more often with rough electricity and wave signals.

>>8148876
while, not why.
lolsorry.

>Pharmacist
>109,000-134,000

Are these the people at shoppers drug mart that count pills?

>>8148927
Yes in fact they are.

>>8148266
Yeah, I have a friend in IT who is in a similar position, and it makes me very glad that I decided against that career before college. He is always going on about his incredible salary, despite the fact that I've pointed out that his long hours mean that he is, on average, working twice as long as me (low-level govt scientist) for a lower hourly rate, shitty benefits, wildly varying hours (incl. being on-call all the time), and an extremely unstable job position.

A lot of other IT guys I know all seem to fall into this trap of completely forgetting to assign any value to things like leisure time or quality of life and instead just focus on their gross salary. I'm not sure why. Maybe they just assign a much higher value to discretionary income than I do?

>>8148946
Do they do anything else? Besides take papers with the pills that the people need, and give them their pills? Anything else? Do any tests? Experiment on animals? Cure cancer?

>>8148865
Well, people could stop buying into ridiculous anti-labor propaganda, for one. I mean, it's not a coincidence that the inflation-adjusted median wage started dropping at the same time that unions started declining.

>>8148997
pharmacy techs count the pills. pharmacists check the script against the drug in the bottle and the instructions on the label. they also answer questions that customers have about drugs, monitor potential drug interactions, and make sure that everything that happens in the pharmacy is in compliance with the law.

that said, pharmacists are hideously overpaid.

>>8149047
I thought pharmacists were like radiologists and anesthesiologists: the job itself is easy, but it has extremely high training requirements and other barriers to entry combined with very high liability.

>>8147497

GOIN TO SCHOOL TO BECOME A PHYSICIAN'S ASSISTANT

BITCHES

>>8149086
pharmacists used to only be trained with a bachelor's degree, then someone along the line decided that they should be in school for 6-8 years instead of 4. so now we have new pharmacists graduating from school with $80k+ in student loan debt. great example of bloat in the health care system.

I'd rather be a bum out on the street than work any of these jobs. It's just not worth it to me to put in the insane amount of work hours each week that many of these jobs require. What's the point of having an assload of money if you don't have the time to enjoy it?

>>8148997
theres a differance between a pharm tech, and a pharmasist. about $70,000 but I dont know what else.

NURSE PRACTITIONER


LIKE A BOSS

>>8148755
>implying people in managerial class are serfs

Whats the reason people persue these jobs? is it the money? the status? Or is it that they dont know what to do with thier time? Not that putting it toward a job is a waste. It just seams like hard work to me.