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Occupational Outlook Handbook

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This should be required reading in HS. When I was in high school everyone went into a computer lab to read this document . Not everyone did but I looked for the best paying job that had high growth that I would enjoy.

Although I thought about being Mathematician or a professor in college when I was there I saw that a bunch of people in those disciplines becoming web developers and or low paid Adjunct professors at community colleges . Reading that website changed my life significantly .

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

Quick Facts: Computer Programmers [...] Job Outlook, 2018-28 -7% (Decline)

Software Engineers [...] Job Outlook, 2018-28 +21% (Much faster than average)

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

Seems like the highest paying x easiest occupation is being an airline pilot.

Maybe, it's said to be 99.999% boredom and 0.001% panic.

I know a few serious international airliner pilots (high ranking, national flag carriers), I went to a high school with an aviation specialty. Both around 50 yo.

One guy quit because couldn't handle the repetitive boredom.

The other does 30 days on and 30 days off, lives in NZ in primo spot, but I have worked rosters in construction before and know all the problems they can bring, esp ongoing rosters with no escape future.

Interestingly I am an electrical engineer (which for me is my dream job), outearn them both by a large margin and have a much more interesting job, IMO.

Yeah, but you don’t get to fly for a living: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/amazing-cockpit-pilo...

I get paid to fly as a passenger far more often than I would like.

I live in the most isolated capital city in the world and where you can easily fly for well over two hours and still be in the same state.

I would be happy to never get on another plane.

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