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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts) Sun Mar 22, 2015, 02:22 PM Mar 2015

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Map: 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

About half are truck drivers. dixiegrrrrl Mar 2015 #1

Why are the schools pushing STEM courses if everyone will end up as truck drivers, femmocrat Mar 2015 #2

india rurallib Mar 2015 #3

Yeah.... could be! nt femmocrat Mar 2015 #4

Secretaries & truck drivers. lovemydog Mar 2015 #5

Primary school teachers: elleng Mar 2015 #6

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

1. About half are truck drivers.

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2015, 05:59 PM

Mar 2015

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,

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 08:07 PM

Mar 2015

secretaries, and pre-school teachers?

Where ARE all these high tech jobs???

rurallib

(62,412 posts)

3. india

Reply to femmocrat (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 09:44 PM

Mar 2015

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

4. Yeah.... could be! nt

Reply to rurallib (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 09:49 PM

Mar 2015

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)

5. Secretaries & truck drivers.

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:46 PM

Mar 2015

There's some huge party going on. I wasn't invited!

elleng

(130,895 posts)

6. Primary school teachers:

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 11:34 PM

Mar 2015

Alaska
Connecticut
Florida
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
West Virginia

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