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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMap: The Most Common* Job In Every State
*We used data from the Census Bureau, which has two catch-all categories: "managers not elsewhere classified" and "salespersons not elsewhere classified." Because those categories are broad and vague to the point of meaninglessness, we excluded them from our map.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-the-most-common-job-in-every-state
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Map: The Most Common* Job In Every State (Original Post)
Blue_Tires
Mar 2015
OP
Why are the schools pushing STEM courses if everyone will end up as truck drivers,
femmocrat
Mar 2015
#2
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)1. About half are truck drivers.
That's interesting...and a bit disturbing.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)2. Why are the schools pushing STEM courses if everyone will end up as truck drivers,
secretaries, and pre-school teachers?
Where ARE all these high tech jobs???
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)4. Yeah.... could be! nt
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)5. Secretaries & truck drivers.
There's some huge party going on. I wasn't invited!
elleng
(131,140 posts)6. Primary school teachers:
Alaska
Connecticut
Florida
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
West Virginia