| Five high tech jobs are on the Bureau of Labor | | | | depend on their ability to store information. On |
| Statistics' latest list of the 30 fastest-growing jobs in | | | | customers, on products, on employees, and so on. |
| the U.S. from 2004 to 2014. Two of these jobs are | | | | A good database administrator who could help the |
| also on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' latest list of the | | | | Marketing Department figure out the right questions to |
| 30 jobs that will grow the most in total numbers. | | | | ask of their customer database and figure out how to |
| The two jobs that are on both the fastest growing | | | | mine for the answers, could help their employer make |
| and biggest growing lists are: | | | | a lot more money. |
| Network systems and data communication analyst -- | | | | It's significant that six years after the dot com crash, |
| $61,250 (average salary according to the BLS) | | | | the world has not abandoned computers. The Internet |
| This is basically a networking engineer or network | | | | is no longer seen as a source of instant stock market |
| administrator, who keeps networks up and running | | | | riches and techies are no longer kings . . . |
| properly. They must deal with network-related | | | | But good techies in the right fields are still in demand. |
| problems, both technical and human (forgotten | | | | Dotcoms rose and died between Super Bowl |
| passwords, for example), that inevitably come up. | | | | commercials, but now every business is online and the |
| Computer systems software engineer -- $81,140 | | | | average American and many people around the world |
| (average salary according to the BLS) | | | | accept the Internet as an integral part of their daily |
| This job entails designing and running the software | | | | lives. |
| needed to keep a company's computers and | | | | Routine IT work is being outsourced to India, but |
| networks up and operational. | | | | companies still need savvy techies who can work |
| The three jobs which are also fast-growing, but where | | | | closely with customers to give them what they want. |
| demand in total numbers won't be as high as the | | | | Student enrollment in Computer Science departments |
| above two jobs, are: | | | | is down. This will raise demand for those who do |
| Computer applications software engineer -- $76,310 | | | | graduate with Computer Science degrees -- and for |
| (average salary according to the BLS) | | | | many otherwise qualified applicants. |
| This could be called computer software programming, | | | | Many techies working for U.S. companies are |
| but at a higher level of design and complexity. Routine | | | | foreign-born, but that may change in the years to |
| coding can and will be outsourced to India and other | | | | come. Both India and China have fast expanding |
| low-wage countries. However, making sure that a | | | | economies. They may need to keep their highly |
| given program both meets the needs of the user, from | | | | educated techies working inside their own borders, and |
| the get-go, and in its final version, demands personal | | | | may be willing be pay competitive wages to do so. |
| contact and hands on involvement with the end user | | | | China certainly has the hard dollars to do so. They |
| as well as the code. | | | | may even repatriate some of their citizens who are |
| Computer systems analyst -- $67,520 | | | | now gaining valuable experience in the U.S. and other |
| This often varies by employer but will involve working | | | | developed countries. |
| with networks. | | | | Someday soon we may discover that there's a |
| Database administrator -- $61,950 | | | | shortage of techies in the U.S. |
| This job is extremely important, since companies | | | | |