With 14 million Americans out of work and the unemployment rate stuck at around 9 percent, it can seem as though there are no jobs to be had anywhere. But there are, if you just stretch your imagination a bit. They may not be the jobs your parents had in mind when they sent you off to college, or what you had in mind for your kids when you wrote the five-figure tuition checks, but they pay a living wage – and sometimes more.
These jobs won’t be found on the Bureau of Labor Statistics list of the fastest-growing occupations for the next decade. Biomedical engineers – the people who design everything from MRI machines and medical instruments to artificial limbs -- top the list published at the end of 2010. The highest paid, usually with a master’s degree, can earn more than $123,000, according to the Labor Dept. The BLS list also includes network systems and data communications analysts, financial examiners, biochemists and biophysicists among the high-paying jobs expected to grow, as well as lots of jobs in health-care related fields. But it might be fun to get paid for designing or testing video games, managing a casino, or even trying out mattresses.
Click here for seven interesting occupations you may not have considered, starting with the professional jobs that pay best and are expected to grow. Others don’t pay a whole lot, or can be temporary, but you could wind up doing something you love. And there’s no reason not to have some fun. How about making chocolate?
These jobs won’t be found on the Bureau of Labor Statistics list of the fastest-growing occupations for the next decade. Biomedical engineers – the people who design everything from MRI machines and medical instruments to artificial limbs -- top the list published at the end of 2010. The highest paid, usually with a master’s degree, can earn more than $123,000, according to the Labor Dept. The BLS list also includes network systems and data communications analysts, financial examiners, biochemists and biophysicists among the high-paying jobs expected to grow, as well as lots of jobs in health-care related fields. But it might be fun to get paid for designing or testing video games, managing a casino, or even trying out mattresses.
Click here for seven interesting occupations you may not have considered, starting with the professional jobs that pay best and are expected to grow. Others don’t pay a whole lot, or can be temporary, but you could wind up doing something you love. And there’s no reason not to have some fun. How about making chocolate?
