Focus.com shared the results of their study of more than 7,000 jobs and this great image is making the rounds. Using multiple criteria including projected growth, salary, recession survival, quality of life (e.g., flexibility, stress, personal satisfaction) along with interviews with industry experts, they created a ranked list of 50 “best jobs.”
The list is of course ripe with professions many of which might be labeled a sort of knowledge work. (The study excluded occupations that did not require at least a bachelor’s degree. I wonder how the list would compete against the so-called trades?) Still, the results provide a warrant for those interested in understanding communication between professionals, and in particular, professionals in health contexts (11 of the 37 on the image are in health care) and in information systems (7 of 37). All of these jobs are marked by involving professionals who must “shepherd, appropriate, and suffer knowledge-intensive discourses in their conversations, and these individuals draw their legitimacy in organizing—their power to create and judge these discourses—from their attachments to institutions”.
[via BoingBoing]
