According to this article in CNN Money, these three jobs have at least one thing in common. Since I am not yet interested in being an architect and I can’t stand the heat in the kitchen, my perspective would be that
A career with one of the most disproportionate ratios of training to pay is that of academic research scientist.
Perhaps a Jedi knight training would have gotten me more pay. Patience…
And it’s made tougher still by the fact that in many disciplines, there aren’t nearly as many tenure-track positions as there are candidates.
I can easily imagine this being the case for liberal arts subjects, but perhaps this is also true, or getting more true, for Computer Science too. I don’t have figures to know the situation.
At the end of the article is this inspiring, surprising list of six-figure jobs: stunt driver; auctioneer; matchmaker; head groundskeeper; and fashion-trend forecaster.
I predict that next year’s fashion will be different from this year’s. Really, that makes my mom feel proud.
