Saw this article posted on Yahoo regarding US News & World Report’s list of best jobs for 2006. Now we know how arbitrary they can be, and I took this article with a grain of salt. For example the whole idea of engineers as a good job might be flawed. I remember a statistic from ABC News World News Tonight on a special regarding China. With their population and education system, China puts over 300,000 new engineers to the workforce a year, vs. the US’s 3,700 a year. We simply can’t compete with numbers like that in the long run. While the US, Japan, and Europe may still lead in terms of innovation, China will succeed in reverse engineering, “process-refinement,” and still have the economies of scale (and the fixed Yuan foreign exchange) to produce it equivalently or cheaper (and sometimes better). Global market forces changes in magical ways. LOL Press more for my cache of the article.
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