Best Job in America
According to MONEY Magazine's Best Jobs report, the best job in America is.......... software engineer. Second best job is......... college professor. So if I'm a college professor and a software engineer, that's like nirvana, right?
(psst, they measured things like stress, pay, ability for advancement, ability to telecommute, etc)
Then (this is hilarious!) they "grade" each job on a 4-point scale of Stress, Flexibility, Creativity, Difficulty. Here's how our top two jobs fared:
Software Engineer:
Stress: B
Flexibility: B
Creativity: A
Difficulty: C
College Professor (includes administrators):
Stress: B
Flexibility: A
Creativity: A
Difficulty: C
So I'm going to be a "grade grubbing student" now and ask, if college professor gets an "A" in Flexibility and Software Engineer only gets a "B", how come Software Engineer is ranked #1 and College Professor is only ranked #2? Salary potential is also higher for CP than SE. Is it projected job growth that is skewing the rank? Nope, CP has twice the number of projected jobs for average annual growth. Who knows....
(psst, they measured things like stress, pay, ability for advancement, ability to telecommute, etc)
Then (this is hilarious!) they "grade" each job on a 4-point scale of Stress, Flexibility, Creativity, Difficulty. Here's how our top two jobs fared:
Software Engineer:
Stress: B
Flexibility: B
Creativity: A
Difficulty: C
College Professor (includes administrators):
Stress: B
Flexibility: A
Creativity: A
Difficulty: C
So I'm going to be a "grade grubbing student" now and ask, if college professor gets an "A" in Flexibility and Software Engineer only gets a "B", how come Software Engineer is ranked #1 and College Professor is only ranked #2? Salary potential is also higher for CP than SE. Is it projected job growth that is skewing the rank? Nope, CP has twice the number of projected jobs for average annual growth. Who knows....
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