My personal assistant fields a
certain media question regularly: “Should
my offspring go into broadcasting?” Well,
absolutely – if they can absorb enough science to get a degree in meteorology
and look great after getting up at 3 in the morning. Otherwise pursue something
practical, like long-haul trucking or operating a forklift. (I’m including
women; why not be the first Miss Vermont certified to drive a forklift?)
Anyway, CareerCast,
one of hundreds of websites carrying job listings, has checked in with its take
on the most overrated jobs of 2015. To the surprise of no one, broadcaster is
high on the list. Check out the median salary: $29,790 a year. (That’s median,
meaning half make more and half less. Because of the big money made by a
relative few, the average would be much higher.)
Other
professions on the overrated list are attorney and architect, but a much higher
paycheck usually accompanies the stress. (Student loans could be a long-term
problem.) The most underrated job on CareerCast’s list is accountant. The
median salary is $63,550 in a field expected to grow nicely in the coming
years. For the most part, accountants
spend low-stress days putting numbers into software, which performs all those
nasty calculations that so vexed their grandfathers. Clients are genteel and
moneyed. Nobody looks down on accountants the way they would a lawyer or
bureaucrat.
Personally,
my #1 profession combines obscene earnings and not being tied to a desk:
Independent plumber. That’s another good idea, Miss Vermont. Today we honor
Atlanta’s own Jane Withers, a versatile actress who starred in dozens of
commercials for Comet cleanser as “Josephine the Plumber.” Jane is still with
us, now 89.
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