Actuaries: We Win Again!

[Indy Coug]

http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2013/04/22/dust-off-your-math-skills-actuary-is-best-job-of-2013/

[MarkGrace]

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[Indy Coug]

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He's skewing the curve.

[YOhio]

http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2013/04/...t-job-of-2013/

Nobody cares.

[CardiacCoug]

I love how chiropractor is #11 and physician is #45. Respiratory therapist is #34.

Ridiculous. Who on earth in their right mind would rather be a chiropractor or respiratory therapist than a physician?

[Jeff Lebowski]

I love how chiropractor is #11 and physician is #45. Respiratory therapist is #34.

Ridiculous. Who on earth in their right mind would rather be a chiropractor or respiratory therapist than a physician?

Yeah, that list looks fishy. Dental hygienist #6? No way.

[Uncle Ted]

Yeah, that list looks fishy. Dental hygienist #6? No way.

#18 Mathematician

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...095008558.html

LOL. Did I make a mistake changing majors?

[Uncle Ted]

I love how chiropractor is #11 and physician is #45. Respiratory therapist is #34.

Ridiculous. Who on earth in their right mind would rather be a chiropractor or respiratory therapist than a physician?

Physicians cost too damn much and don't quack enough.

[ERCougar]

I love how chiropractor is #11 and physician is #45. Respiratory therapist is #34.

Ridiculous. Who on earth in their right mind would rather be a chiropractor or respiratory therapist than a physician?

I wonder how much of this is self-reported. Physicians are funny. I work a lot with the premed students and I get approached all the time from students asking me, "Is it really that bad?". Every physician they talk to has nothing but negative things to say. I don't get it. I can't think of a job with better combination of job security, autonomy, people contact, flexibility, and yeah, pay. Yes, maybe things are worse than they used to be, and yes, there are things that suck about my job, but there are things that suck about every job--that's why they pay you to do them. I think there are a large number of physicians who have never worked a real job in their life.

[Guest]

http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2013/04/...t-job-of-2013/

I looked at the full list and I see they list Software Engineer and Computer Programer seperately. I'm an electrical engineer who does both of those but I generally see them as the same, yet they are quite far apart on the list(#3 vs. #38).

[Surfah]

I wonder how much of this is self-reported. Physicians are funny. I work a lot with the premed students and I get approached all the time from students asking me, "Is it really that bad?". Every physician they talk to has nothing but negative things to say. I don't get it. I can't think of a job with better combination of job security, autonomy, people contact, flexibility, and yeah, pay. Yes, maybe things are worse than they used to be, and yes, there are things that suck about my job, but there are things that suck about every job--that's why they pay you to do them. I think there are a large number of physicians who have never worked a real job in their life.

One of my roommates from college is a successful patent attorney. But his very first job ever was the one he landed out of law school when he was 29.

[CardiacCoug]

I wonder how much of this is self-reported. Physicians are funny. I work a lot with the premed students and I get approached all the time from students asking me, "Is it really that bad?". Every physician they talk to has nothing but negative things to say. I don't get it. I can't think of a job with better combination of job security, autonomy, people contact, flexibility, and yeah, pay. Yes, maybe things are worse than they used to be, and yes, there are things that suck about my job, but there are things that suck about every job--that's why they pay you to do them. I think there are a large number of physicians who have never worked a real job in their life.

Yep. I have no idea why so many doctors bitch and moan about their jobs. Really goes to show that no matter how awesome things are a lot of people make themselves miserable anyway.

[LA Ute]

This story kind of fits in with the comments in this thread.

What Do U.S. College Graduates Lack? Professionalism

[statman]

This story kind of fits in with the comments in this thread.

What Do U.S. College Graduates Lack? Professionalism

I have a really smart nephew (wicked smaaht) who is a pretty outspoken conservative. He had a blog where he posted some pretty strongly opinionated articles and musings, and similar "likes" on his facebook page. In his last of joint BS/MS program he was applying to doctoral programs and asked me for advice. First thing - lose the freaking blog and the facebook page. If he needed facebook, delete the old one and start a new one minus the conservative "likes."

He argued that doing so wouldn't "be true to himself." I told him - you're a strongly libertarian conservative. You aren't allowed to be true to yourself in public. If you were a transgendered necrophiliac who digged roadkill, knock yourself out. But conservative mormons? Not so much. He begrudgingly took it down and deleted as much of it as he could from the collective conscious of the Internet.

He and is wife just had a baby a couple weeks ago and I called to congratulate them. The first thing he said was that I was right. They had just interviewed a couple potential PhD candidates, and this was his first exposure to how applicants are judged. One of the first things they talked about for each candidate is what they could tell about them from their online personae. A guy from BYU was one of the candidates and his prop 8, anti-abortion and other comments on his facebook page were highlights of the discussion. They actually offered the guy a spot, but didn't offer him any funding - which for a PhD student is as good as not offering him a spot. After that process, my nephew called his old faculty advisor and told him to tell candidates looking for job and/or academic possibilities out of the program to delete their facebook, twitter, pinterest, etc accounts before applying for anything. They WILL be used against you.

Out of the mouths of babes...

[ERCougar]

Life is really hard for white Mormon conservatives. They also can't get into the University of Utah for medical school.