The Fastest Growing Occupations data according to our County Reports

After doing a bit of work with the above linked raw data I produced a chart expressing how an 18 year old High School Graduate might best interpret and choose one of these Fastest Growing Occupations.

I have made several assumptions in this chart which may seem at first odd but were absolutely required as they reflect common sense and good judgement.

1) It costs 30,000 dollars a year to live in the Bay Area. This means while you are in school you or the person supporting you is losing this money.

2) Tuition is free.

3) You do not invest.

You really only have two choices if you want to make over 2 million dollars before your 46th birthday, Pharmacist and Sciences Manager. Be ready to fight for it because there will only be 30 Pharmacists and 17 Sciences Managers positions opening each year in the East Bay.

If you don't like to compete you might try an RN program or become a Computer Programmer. At 300 new people each year you still have to be in the top 3% of your nursing school to get a job, and at 250 new people a year in Computer Programming you had better have some top 1% connections because there is a Computer Programmer acting as CEO of a new Social Networking Startup on every street corner in the East Bay.

At this point in the LifeTime Earnings Graph we get to the Nerds.

Nerds lean on Academic Credentials for stuffy cushy jobs with no future, no upward potential and no sense of the free market spirit. Their incomes are entirely dependent on the number of years they spent toiling in the Moffit Library. They are the people that scratched all of that self loathing graffiti in the bathroom stalls and blamed it on the kids smoking cigars on the grass.

Nerds do well for themselves because they lean on the State system for the education to provide them with privilege and the State budget for the pay check. Sadly the State can't borrow any more money with our tax dollars to maintain the Nerds in the life style to which they have become accustomed. So young Nerds may have the black rimmed glasses, the pocket protectors and the juicy red washington delicious apples, but they are not going to get paid like they used to.

Then you have people like me, Writers, Authors, PR specialists, Representative Agents, and Financial Consultants. We make the free market system work. We provide people with information they need to make the decisions that will determine their quality of life. When we do our jobs right people are happy. When we don't do our jobs right everything goes wrong. When writers, authors, and consultants go wrong, people get confused and make bad decisions. People usually blame themselves for their personal failure to make good decisions while they rarely take the time to know how a good decision is made. Good decisions are made by rational people who know the relevant facts. The number of facts a person may access and the applied relevance of those facts in predicting and producing the desired outcomes is what defines the quality of a person's decisions.

For instance anyone choosing to work for less than 13$ an hour has doomed themselves to a life of poverty.

Based on the above data and discussion a person should avoid the following list of activities at all times to avoid building a lifelong money losing career:

Product Promotions

Butchering

Personal Care

Pet Care

Manicures and Pedicures

Pumping Gas

Cleaning Cars

Serving Fast Food

If you are doing or plan on doing one of these forbidden activities please drop everything and see your doctor. To take any one of these occupations defies all rational thought. Those who take these positions may be suffering from brain damage. When you see one of these poor souls please give them my URL, dcgfinancial.com , and let them know we are here to help.

-David Caro-Greene

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