{"id":1206,"date":"2009-01-09T04:52:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T09:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2009-01-09T04:52:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T09:52:56","slug":"we-lost-to-mathematicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1206","title":{"rendered":"We Lost \u2026 to Mathematicians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123119236117055127.html\">Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The study, to be released Tuesday from CareerCast.com, a new job site, evaluates 200 professions to determine the best and worst according to five criteria inherent to every job: environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands and stress.<br \/>\n[\u2026]<br \/>\nAccording to the study, mathematicians fared best in part because they typically work in favorable conditions &#8212; indoors and in places free of toxic fumes or noise &#8212; unlike those toward the bottom of the list like sewage-plant operator, painter and bricklayer. They also aren&#8217;t expected to do any heavy lifting, crawling or crouching &#8212; attributes associated with occupations such as firefighter, auto mechanic and plumber.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Physicist<\/em> ranks 13th, presumably because we experimentalists get to play with dangerous things, which I consider a perq.  At least we beat out Astronomer; I suppose that&#8217;s because they have to work nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs The study, to be released Tuesday from CareerCast.com, a new job site, evaluates 200 professions to determine the best and worst according to five criteria inherent to every job: environment, income, employment &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1206\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35,46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-other-science","category-science-general","category-science-y-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}