Ask a Manager: What Fields Are Booming?

[minoanmiss]

https://www.askamanager.org/2022/08/what-fields-have-hiring-booms-right-now.html

Not posting the text because it's basically the question, and also the answers are the interesting part. Fields that people recommend include:

Teaching [insert discussion here]
Nursing [likewise]
Law Enforcement {hooboy]
Renewable Energy (*shows interest*)
Data Analytics [*considers Python*]
Accounting [hmm]
and of course the good old cheerful and friendly service industry.

Comments

[harpers_child]

The service industry is a shambling wreck right now. I've got a friend who was a restaurant manager for decades who looked at his current job opportunities and decided to be a bartender at a dive bar for a bit. Pays the same and way less stress.

I wouldn't tell my worst enemy to get a service industry job right now.

[azurelunatic]

I ordered from McDonald's today, and the receipt email I got horrified me.

"We hope you enjoy your food as much as we enjoyed preparing it."

... no, I would rather not feel ragged and exhausted and overworked, thank you very much, and I am absolutely okay if any/all of the workers do not choose to maintain a bubbly surface act while interacting with me. (Even though sometimes that was all that got me through my day cashiering, back when I did that for a hot minute.)

[minoanmiss]

tries to beam enjoyment and happiness back to them

[jadelennox]

nobody said tech? 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

like, I know the press is lately all terrified of a recession and layoffs, but there's no sign of much slow down in a lot of tech fields. Learn infosec or devops and you're golden. (Also data analytics and python, which I guess they did list.)

Anything in big data, or biotech. Unethical tech is booming (panopticon surveillance state bullshit, or about two thirds of the data analytics jobs which are in either surveillance state, identity selling, or advertising middleware).

And you know. Probably repo men and the people from Wells Fargo who come take your house.

[minoanmiss]

Oh no, people said tech. Sorry, I glossed over that because I am untechnical.

[jadelennox]

ah, yeah. the tech industry basically is existing in another country from the rest of the US right now. It's unreal and makes me so mad.

[xenacryst]

What's harder is to find tech that doesn't look like a shiny nickel on the outside and then suck your soul dry like a starving Nazgul before you've even finished biting said nickel. That said, techjobsforgood.com is a place to look.

[ekaterinn]

In the States, there's have been a shortage of certain kinds of teachers - special education, science, math - for decades. But this new shortage is unprecedented at a time where educators are getting increasingly scrutinized by the GOP at local and state levels. Both pay and working conditions will have to seriously improve to recruit and RETAIN (retention historically has been much harder than recruitment) more teachers. Some districts seem to be trying to increase pay, but I don't see the working conditions improving in many places.

[minoanmiss]

Word.

[med_cat]

Hmm...

...I haz opinions, if anyone wants 'em :P

[minoanmiss]

I think your opinions would be very valuable indeed.

[med_cat]

They pertain to nursing, my opinions, as I'm sure you guessed--

1. Nursing and Allied Health is not a field to go into only because it is "booming"

2. COVID has entirely changed the landscape of nursing

and 3. To be a good nurse, you have to:

1) like people (ours is VERY MUCH a customer service profession)

2) be willing to learn (and the learning is lifelong)

3) have common sense (or good judgment, or critical thinking; many terms for the same thing)

...can elaborate on any and all of the above-mentioned points, if desired.

Oh yes, P.S. and 4. Nursing can be a very demanding profession, physically and/or emotionally.

[minoanmiss]

This makes absolute sense. I have to admit that when I saw "Nursing is booming" I made a sound between a laugh and a sob. I wanted to post "THERE ARE REASONS AND SOME ARE VERY NOT GOOD."

[med_cat]

You are more than welcome to share my comment and say "a friend of mine who is a critical care nurse made these comments"

and, yep :P Lots more one could say

[med_cat]

vide:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/nursing/nursing/100043

As Staffing Problems Increase, RN Job Satisfaction Plummets
— Two-thirds said they intend to leave in the next 3 years, national survey finds

A majority of registered nurses (RNs) surveyed said they had appropriate staffing levels on their unit less than half the time, according to a new study.

"That should be scary to a lot of people," Beth Ulrich, EdD, RN, of Cizik School of Nursing of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, told MedPage Today.

Additionally, the survey of more than 9,000 nurses, which was published in Critical Care Nurse, found that just 24% of respondents said their units had the right number of nurses with the right skills and knowledge more than 75% of the time, compared with 39% in a 2018 version of the study.

(you can see the rest at the link)

[minoanmiss]

takes notes and saves to deploy when necessary

[med_cat]

Anytime. Now, this article is only about ICUs. However, I think the situation on med-surg-telemetry won't be much better, from what I see and hear.

[fred_mouse]

Python would not be the only language. Our group is desperate for someone comfortable with Javascript. Friend A's group are looking for Ruby on Rails. Friend B's group are some weird variant of Java. And that is one weekend's set of conversations. Friend A said that they get people for about six months, which gets them 'industry experience', and then they jump to much higher paying jobs.