The most common job in every state

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If you have a choice about how to lump categories, you can make the numbers say different things.

Are interstate truck drivers and pizza delivery people really the same job? And why are primary school teachers and secondary school teachers different jobs, and not lumped under “K-12 teachers”?

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Florida surprised me. I can attest in 1978 it was “crotchety Yankee retiree”

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I was gonna say, before I looked at the map, Washington was either “Software Developer” or “Barista”. Barista has to be a very close second.

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Here’s a good explanation of why the NPR article is misleading: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-truck-driver-isnt-the-most-common-job-in-your-state-2015-02-12

I got that from Reddit, where the NPR article was posted today (despite being more than a year and a half old), probably because it was posted here on BoingBoing. So now I’m copying the link back here to make a circle.

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They’re not listing H1B software developers separately, that’s why.

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Someone mistook that as meaning ‘Java Developer’ at Starbucks as meaning ‘software developer’.

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I thought Starbucks slipped in under “regression testing”.

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Secretary is still a thing?

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So basically, we’re the United States of Moving a Lot of Shit Around.

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Farmer protests in France have a high entertainment value.

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Most of the people brewing your coffee are not baristas(*). In LA and NYC, they’re mainly actors. In other cities, they’re novelists or poets. In my town, they’re surfers.

(*) At least, that’s not what they put down on the surveys.

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I’m surprised “school teacher” is the most common job in Florida. But then, I suppose “dangerous lunatic” isn’t really a job.

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I dunno. Paint yourself orange and run for Emperor, and it seems to pay awfully well.

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Idk, I live near Seattle. I think “barista” is considered a career here.

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making a good shot of espresso is a talent. i should go walk over to my fav local place later as they do an excellent job of it.

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Additional data on the job trends front from Indeed.com:
Truck Driver: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-Truck-Driver.html = big increase
Customer Service: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-Customer-Service.html = pretty flat over the past 4 years

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