My Son is a heavy equipment mechanic. They can’t keep enough help. It’s hard work but he gets paid well.
I learned in college that whatever line of work is supposed to be good to be in, that time actually passed before we started, and now it really sucks.
That was 45 years ago and I haven’t seen anything since then that’s changed my mind.
I don’t know if nursing has ever been a great job, but I imagine this is as good a time to do it as any. More older people means more demand. And some of the cost pressure on the medical system pushes interesting work from doctors to nurse practitioners.
So many silenced voices. I hope it’s not an AI Winter Mute.
Political Bag Man…?
I’d say psychiatry is a great field right now. Anxiety and depression are extremely common at an 80-year high, according to some sources, as is awareness of ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, PTSD and more.
Both private and partnership practices are becoming more common, and there’s definitely a high demand, and without trying to sound crass, it can be quite lucrative.
Isn’t psychiatry one of the lowest paying jobs? Also with the medical system in the US falling apart for a lot of people, it seems a lot of people are making do by visiting a nurse practitioner to get medication and a therapist to get counseling and avoiding the psychiatrist.
I guess for clarification, I’d change it to “the psychiatric field.” There are areas, even urban areas, where the demand way outstrips the availability.
It’s not low paying these days. Psychiatrists are in VERY high demand right now. I know some who are being offered as much as $250/hour for 40+ hours a week, office and staff and malpractice provided. Both the private and public sector can’t find enough help, neither psychiatrists nor psychiatric NPs.
I assume you mean general therapy, not specifically medication-based psychiatry? There is really only a handful of job types in the latter category, and they all involve years of schooling.
As for psychology degrees, social work, etc. The pay varies greatly by state or metro area, and it’s not always easy to predict - naturally heavily urbanized areas will have more opportunity, but 2 states with similar demographics and issues may pay much differently.
Thats interesting. I always thought psychiatry paid closer to $100/hr and was one of the lowest paying physician jobs.
I got this. Just so you know 
But like being a doctor or a teacher, it sort of sucks. Yeah, there is a lot of demand, but when anxiety and depression is high, that means your patients are also on edge, needy, and suicidal - you can end up too busy to be able to squeeze in the people who need you. Insurance payouts are relatively small for therapists. It isn’t easy work and has high burnout rates.
Pilot, definitely. The airlines are sucking up so many pilots right now that there’s a demand for pilots at all levels, from pipeline patrol and skydiving to corporate jets.
I thought there was an issue with pilots working long hours for 20k a year.
Not many people are going to get what the color of a dead channel is, anymore.
in threads like this, I always reply with the (semi-serious) answer:
Get a job as a TSA inspector at the airport.
for verily, I say unto ye, the TSA shall be with us until the end of days.
If you’re a loner and mechanically inclined, CDL drivers are in MASSIVE demand, especially of the long-haul variety. The industry is one of the few that are actually dying for self-driving vehicles, because they just can’t get enough warm bodies willing to take the job, and it’s not the sort of thing they can just hire a bunch of random undocumented workers.
Mostly everything. Generally when certain skills or professions are in demand, not only is there more jobs, but people hiring for them are often so desperate for their services that they fall all over themselves throwing money at you to do them.
It doesn’t last though. Skills start to become commoditized, lending them to replacement by automation or outsourcing. Buyers become more sophisticated, demanding more value for their money. The field might even become highly regulated, requiring all sorts of bureaucratic hoops to jump through, sucking the life out of work.
This is a good time to be President of the United States. In the past, the job was needlessly constrained by lots of protocols and having to quickly learn about difficult but important subjects. I understand it has loosened up and now offers more possibilities.