{"id":1651,"date":"2008-07-08T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T14:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/americas-top-growing-job\/"},"modified":"2008-07-07T13:53:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T18:53:48","slug":"americas-top-growing-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/americas-top-growing-job\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Top Growing Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roustabout, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/leadership\/careers\/2008\/07\/02\/employement-careers-jobs-leadership-careers-cx_pm_0702topjobs.html?feed=rss_leadership_careers\">according to Forbes.com<\/a>.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know what a roustabout was\/did either.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Roustabouts are the workers who assemble and repair oil and gas field equipment. They do other unskilled work around rigs like cleaning up spilled oil, moving pipes to and from trucks and guiding cranes that move loads around decks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard and dirty work, and in the labor hierarchy of oil rigs, roustabouts are a notch below roughnecks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you just love the American economy?\u00a0 Never ceases to amaze me.\u00a0 Of course, there is always the other side of the coin.\u00a0 The disappearing jobs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The disappearing jobs list also reflects the continuing long-term decline of no- and low-skilled manufacturing jobs in the U.S.&#8211;sewing machine operators, engine assemblers, machine tool setters, home appliance repairers and textile knitting machine operators.<\/p>\n<p>There are some surprises: Actors and tax examiners show up on the disappearing list, which is topped by entertainers who performed in places like amusement parks and arcades&#8211;or at least who used to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I could name quite a few actors who I would like to see disappear, but that is a post for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roustabout, according to Forbes.com.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know what a roustabout was\/did either. Roustabouts are the workers who assemble and repair oil and gas field equipment. They do other unskilled work around rigs like cleaning up spilled oil, moving pipes to and from trucks and guiding cranes that move loads around decks. It&#8217;s hard and dirty work, and in the labor hierarchy of oil rigs, roustabouts are a notch below roughnecks. Don&#8217;t you just love the American economy?\u00a0 Never ceases to amaze me.\u00a0 Of course, there is always the other side of the coin.\u00a0 The disappearing jobs: The disappearing jobs list also reflects the continuing long-term decline of no- and low-skilled&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/americas-top-growing-job\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,5],"tags":[846,845,847],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-trends","tag-hot-jobs","tag-job-growth","tag-top-growing-job"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-qD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1849,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/01\/best-and-worst-jobs-for-2009\/","url_meta":{"origin":1651,"position":0},"title":"Best And Worst Jobs For 2009","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"January 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I was disappointed when I didn't see salesperson on the list of best jobs for 2009 at Recruiting Trends, but at least it wasn't on the list of top 10 worst jobs!\u00a0 Here is the list of top 10 best & worst jobs: 10 BEST RANKED JOBS Mathematician Actuary Statistician\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1504,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/futuristic-jobs\/","url_meta":{"origin":1651,"position":1},"title":"Futuristic Jobs","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I have a weakness for future predictions of jobs, markets, trends, etc.\u00a0 This particular one is from the Job Market Weekly email (sorry, no link). 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