Surprising Job Growth--And Where to Find it

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Surprising Job Growth--And Where to Find it

The numbers keep rolling in. We're still in an economic decline.

• Construction lost 110,000 jobs in January 2009, which put industry losses at over one million jobs since early 2007
• Manufacturing lost 207,000 jobs this past January, the largest one-month decline since 1982
• Retail lost 45,000 jobs, warehousing lost 44,000, and temporary work dropped nearly 80,000 positions, all in January
• Even finance lost 42,000 jobs

The Two that Grew

Two notable industries saw continued growth this past January:

• Health care employment rose by 19,000 jobs, slowing a little from it's 2008 average of 30,000 jobs a month
• Private education also saw a jump in employment of over 33,000 jobs

With almost two million jobs lost from October to January, it seems almost miraculous that any growth is happening at all. The numbers don't lie, though. What can you do to hop on the growth train? Focus on education and career training, and keep an eye on these fields.

Health Care: The Right Medicine

The health care field employs more than just doctors and nurses. The dramatic increase in technology in the industry has led to jobs in everything from information technology to physics becoming available. Here are a few options:

• Medical Physicists: With a bachelor's degree in physics, you could start in this life-saving field. Your day? Well, treating cancer with focused bursts of radiation and using radioactive isotopes to enhance x-rays and the like are both fairly common. A master's degree could definitely help secure a position in the health care industry, which happens to be one of the top employers of physicists in general, not to mention one of their highest paying industries. Medical physicists make over $130,000 yearly, and they save lives doing it.
• Medical Records and Health Information Technicians: Physics not quite up your alley? How about data entry, sorting, and analysis? This is one of the fastest growing areas of the health care industry with job growth expected to exceed nearly all other jobs in the health care industry. An associate's degree and a willingness to work are all you're going to need to get into this field, which pays about $30,000 annually.
• Personal and Home Health Aides: Even the most current numbers show job growth in the personal and home health aide sector of the health care industry. These service careers are expected to add a full 50 percent more jobs by 2016, which is almost 20 percent more than the next fastest-growing careers in health care. With necessary training and pay varying depending on location, opportunities abound with everything from vocational certificates to bachelor's degrees.

Private Education: G is for Growth

Funding for public education is dropping along with most everything else, but private education saw an employment jump. Here are a few careers that could let you take advantage of rising employment:

• Teachers: In private schools, class sizes tend to be smaller, and teachers report having a greater amount of control over what's taught. Private school teachers tend to make less than those who teach at public schools, but they often receive additional benefits such as free or subsidized housing. Another difference between public and private school educators: Teachers in some private schools don't necessarily have to be certified. While a degree is almost always necessary, it doesn't have to be in education. Secondary school teachers make around $50,000 yearly.
• Educational Administrators: With most of the growth in this field expected in private higher education institutions, this could be a career path for you. Private schools are not subject to the licensing requirements of public schools, allowing some administrators to only have bachelor's degrees. Administrators make anywhere from $75,000 to $125,000 depending on school level (elementary through collegiate) and location.

Source: http://education.yahoo.net/degrees/article...job_growth.html

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The Two that Grew

Two notable industries saw continued growth this past January:

* Health care employment rose by 19,000 jobs, slowing a little from it's 2008 average of 30,000 jobs a month

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That is Not true in every case,

especially if working for community hospitals...they are trying to cut cost at every turn...

Since they are legally bound to provide care all peoples, even to the ones that DO NOT HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE...

Now you can draw your own conclusions,

since these patients will be "NOT PAYING" patients for how long you think they will be able to survive by providing services to non paying customers?

Especially when the "non paying percentage" starting to rise due to the economy situation....so even the health care will be affected by the economy eventually...there is no escape.

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I know the hospitals are cutting back, but so far I had only heard about employees that are more administrative. I know a woman who works as a clerk in a hospital and they cut back her hours from 40 to 32 a week, but she didn't mention anything about doctors, nurses, etc. I also know hospitals can use non-paying patients as a tax write off. Not sure how much that really helps though.

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I know the hospitals are cutting back, but so far I had only heard about employees that are more administrative. I know a woman who works as a clerk in a hospital and they cut back her hours from 40 to 32 a week, but she didn't mention anything about doctors, nurses, etc. I also know hospitals can use non-paying patients as a tax write off. Not sure how much that really helps though.

I've never worked in the tax dept of the hospitals that I worked at but aren't they all non-profit and only file the 990's? I didn't think they paid tax. I know we don't pay sales tax.

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I know the hospitals are cutting back, but so far I had only heard about employees that are more administrative. I know a woman who works as a clerk in a hospital and they cut back her hours from 40 to 32 a week, but she didn't mention anything about doctors, nurses, etc. I also know hospitals can use non-paying patients as a tax write off. Not sure how much that really helps though.

I've never worked in the tax dept of the hospitals that I worked at but aren't they all non-profit and only file the 990's? I didn't think they paid tax. I know we don't pay sales tax.

Both statements above are true, no argument there.....

but the point is that as the percentage of "non paying patients" rise from 20% to 40% to 60% and climbing, they eventually run out of money too....

My point... if we do start building something of value to export, we also run out of money....

We all be servicing each other...."since most of the economy was based on SERVICE"....but no money to pay....