Employment and Work

[alan1]

@ cereal_killer and the rest of the admin team.

How about a forum to discuss things at the workplace and employment? I'm thinking that the vast majority of us posting here either have jobs or have retired from jobs.
If you create the forum, I promise to not say that all the admins and mods work at shopping mall fast food establishments. I wouldn't even tell people that @ coyote drives a honey wagon.

 

[Valerie]

a honey wagon?

 

[alan1]

a honey wagon?

 

[shart_attack]

I've been told that the two go together, yeah.

 

[waltky]

Some jobs likely to decline, other jobs likely to increase...

The Big Freeze Is Coming to These US Jobs
January 20th, 2016 - The U.S. Postal Service employs more than a half-million workers who deliver more mail to more people in a larger geographical area than any other postal service in the world.

Their unofficial motto is, “Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” However, the future might succeed where bad weather couldn’t; the employment outlook is bleak for U.S. postal workers, named one of the fastest declining occupations by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Between now and 2024, jobs for postal service mail sorters, processors and processing machine operators are expected to drop more than 33 percent. The popularity of email and of paying bills electronically have helped drive USPS profits down.

Switchboard operators and photographic process workers also face grim future job prospects, but the job that is expected to decline the most between now and 2024 is that of locomotive firer, also known as an assistant engineer, who assists in operating a passenger or freight train. Other diminishing occupations include: electronic equipment installers and repairers, shoe machine operators and tenders, textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders and watch repairers. People interested in job security should look to the health care field.

Occupational therapy ($56,950 per year) and physical therapy ($54,410 per year) assistants are among the fastest growing occupations, respectively increasing 43 percent and 41 percent over the next eight years. More than half of the top 20 fastest growing occupations are in the health care field, thanks in large part to the aging Baby Boomer population. In the 1990s, this group of Americans — born between 1946 and 1964 and ranging in age from 51 to 70 in 2016 — were at their most economically productive. The first Baby Boomers, though, started turning 65 in 2011. Between 1990 and 2020, the population of Americans aged 65 to 74 is expected to grow 74 percent, straining services and programs required by an elderly population.

People who provide those services can expect to have an easier time finding a job. Renewable energy is going to fuel the most work. The people with the brightest job outlook, between now and 2024, are those who install and maintain wind turbines. Wind turbine service technicians, who currently earn a median annual income of about $48,000, are in the fasting growing occupation in the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The rate of job growth in the field is expected to be 108 percent.

The 20 fastest growing occupations in the United States