What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

The Fifth Way to Choose/Change Careers:
FINDING OUT WHAT THE JOB-MARKET WILL
NEED
With a run of just plain bad luck, you may have used all four previous
ways of finding or changing careers, but nothing worked. You’re stuck.
Your needs or wishes are dying on the vine.
Well, then be glad there is this fifth way of changing careers. It is not
based on your needs or wishes, but on projections about the coming needs
and wishes of the job-market, during the present decade, 2015–2025. It
starts at the opposite end: not what you want, but what the market wants.
Technically called “Projections,” they are also called Hot Jobs, though
I’d take that with a grain of salt, if I were you.
There are dozens of such lists (just Google hot jobs) but take what you
read, wherever you read it, not with just a grain of salt, but with a barrel. 3
“Projections” is just a nice word for “guesses.” The way that some of these
guys and gals decide what constitutes a “hot job” would make your hair
stand on end. I know; I’ve talked with them. Sometimes, they just choose a
title because it sounds new, strange, or exotic. For example, the most
common occupation in the U.S. is truck driver, but would you know that,
from this list of “hot jobs”? This is from CBS News: 4
1. Data Scientist
2. Development & Operations (DevOps) Engineer
3. Data Engineer
4. Tax Manager
5. Analytics Manager
6. Human Resources (HR) Manager
7. Database Administrator
8. Strategy Manager
9. User Experience (UX) Designer