CNN/Money Ranks "Software Engineer" as Best Job in America
A recent CNN/Money article ranks the best jobs in America.
Software Engineer (also known as Software Developer, Programmer, etc...) ranks at #1.
See the rest of the list and get other career advice.
More evidence that the death of IT jobs in the US has been exaggerated.
As a personal note, the second ranking job is College Professor. As I've held both of the top two jobs, does that make me the luckiest guy in the country?
;-)
Software Engineer (also known as Software Developer, Programmer, etc...) ranks at #1.
See the rest of the list and get other career advice.
More evidence that the death of IT jobs in the US has been exaggerated.
As a personal note, the second ranking job is College Professor. As I've held both of the top two jobs, does that make me the luckiest guy in the country?
;-)
posted by Mike at 2:13 PM
4 Comments:
Maybey not the luckiest, but perhaps quite fortunate. When were you a Developer? What applications?
I can see how the software developer job is number one. In this competitive fast paced market, companies depend on the most talented Developers to implement enterprise wide changes almost on a daily basis.
This will continue, but as more developers open their source code and open repositories filled with free ready made code, I see this demand changing in the future. But for know, developers have corporations by the short and curly's.
I was a developer fulltime from approx. 1982-2001...
Since then I've been involved in a number of development projects...
i've worked in a variety of applications and platforms including cobol, powerbuilder, java, xml/xsl, asp, php, flash - quite a range...
Please note an additional website:
http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2005/01/top-jobs-main.html
It appears that if innovation is important then being involved in the sciences is very important.
Do you agree with the analysis provided at this site?
it's hard to agree or disagree with the analysis because all of these categories are quite broad - plus i am not as familiar with all the careers as i am with some. the two positions i am familiar of software engineer and systems analyst receive a 38 and a 100 respectively... i don't really *get* the big difference in these numbers...software developers and systems analysts both work on projects that run the gamut from relatively mundane to fairly innovative/cutting edge... my thought would be both ought to be considered fairly innovative careers... i would think both the areas of science and technology are exciting careers that offer opportunity for innovation....
and you?
btw... i posted the link you cited...
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