The 30 Worst Jobs for the Next Decade
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
The United States Department of Labor just came out with the projection for the most declining occupations for 2006-2016. Take a close look at the list. If your field of interest or current job is in there, this can prompt you to prepare for the coming years and make decisions based on your overall interests and skills to plan your career for the future.
The 30 Occupations with the most employment declines for the next decade:
Stock clerks and order fillers
Cashiers, except gaming
Hand Packers and packagers
File clerks
Farmers and ranchers
Order clerks
Sewing machine operators
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders - metal and plastic
Telemarketers
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
First-line supervisors, production managers, and operating workers
Computer operators
Photographic processing machine operators
Driver and sales workers
Machine feeders and off bearers
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders
Word processors and typists
Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders
Farm workers and laborers; crop, nursery, and greenhouse workers
Molding, core making, and casting, machine setters, operators, and tenders - metal and plastic
Computer programmers
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal job service
Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders - metal and plastic
Prepress technicians and workers
Switchboard operators - including answering service
Data entry keyers
Bindery workers
As you can see from the list, according to the Department of Labor, many jobs in manufacturing will see a steady decline in the next years.
Emerging information technology, in particular, has had an impact on employment opportunities on many entry level positions in several industries.
If you think your career prospects might be severely affected, based on this list, don't feel discourage. Knowledge is one of your best weapons to prepare for the future. The best thing to do is to talk with a career counselor, discuss your plans and your occupations of interest and their employment outlook. Take this list just as a guide to help you plan a better future and pinpoint opportunities that could actually open to you.
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4 Comments
Post a CommentApparently the more basic computer programing jobs will (and are already) be 'offshored' to India etc. There is still a strong growth area in high level computer skills especially if this person has business skills that complement the computer skills. Also any of these jobs that require the 'proximity' element will be fine - systems archtects fall into this category as they need to be 'on site'. Another large area of growth in this field will be security - as the levels of hacking are at an all time high and set to increase - naughty Chinese
The list is based in North America, India graduates 800 000 engineers per year and they will work for peanuts, (including computer engineers). Manufacturing will be all but dead in NA because it can be outsourced to these countries with basically free labour compared to us. The worst trade to have is Tool and Die makers, they were listed at 3 seperate times so stay away. Anything to do with shipping is a logical choice for a future job, as all these products from asia have to get here. Bottom line is the days of having one job at one company then retire and happy ever after are GONE! The world is going to be an uglier place in NA for the middle class, as they will be far and few. Rich people and a lot of poor people making $8/hr will be the norm, which one do you want to be? Compation will be fearce with employeers taking only the cream of the crop, people with multiple university degrees will be making min wage, wait a minute that is happening right now! things will get worse
That list doesn't make sense. Computer programmers are supposed to be the most in-demand for the next decade, although there are a lot of conflicting reports over this one.
The others all sound right though. With so many jobs disappearing, what is going to replace them?
Interesting that telemarketers were on this list.