that’s why I make the big bucks.

We have hard jobs, you and I.

People were predicting the fall of journalism a couple years ago because they saw a fad rise in bloggers (ironically, number two on this list). It was the same kind of faulty, layman’s thinking: people are getting tired of innacurate reporting in a job “anyone can do.” What they forgot to mention is that the alternative they were suggesting is by nature one-sided and biased — the vast majority of bloggers are by their own admittance always pro- or anti- something. If people were tired of biased news, why would they turn to a news source that tells you up front that it’s biased?

Advertising is another one of those jobs that doesn’t sound hard to the average person, because most of the things you need to learn are things that wouldn’t occur to you otherwise. Technical jobs sound hard because you can see exactly what you’d need to learn. Even with writing people have an idea — they’re forced to write in high school, so they already know if they don’t like it or aren’t good at it. But no one regularly forces creative ad projects down their throats sophomore year.

Anyway, this report doesn’t really sound at all credible, particularly since the one-line arguments they gave for each job were based on intuition rather than research.

If it makes you feel any better, the latest issue of U.S. News & World Report just listed auto mechanics and high-tech jobs as two of the top 8 growing careers. The difference is that their report was based on economical/technological trends and data, not “things we can think of on our coffee break that annoy us.”