If your child is at that stage in their life where they're trying to figure out what to do for a living, here's a list of jobs they need to look at.

CareerCast, an online career advice website, recently looked at the most up-to-date figures from the U.S. Labor Department and evaluated the top 200 jobs that have the most employees in the United States.

Researchers used a formula that took into account the following variables:

  • income and growth potential in the field,
  • degree of competitiveness,
  • amount of public contact,
  • physical demands,
  • amount of travel required,
  • deadlines,
  • physical risks.

After sifting through the figures, here's the website's list of “worst jobs" to go into, #10 being the worst:

  1. Mail Carrier
  2. Firefighter
  3. Taxi Driver
  4. Corrections Officer
  5. Photojournalist
  6. Broadcaster
  7. Cook
  8. Enlisted Military Personnel
  9. Lumberjack
  10. Newspaper Reporter

On the other side of the coin, here's their list of "best jobs" with the most promising future:

  1. Actuary
  2. Audiologist
  3. Mathematician
  4. Statistician
  5. Biomedical Engineer
  6. Data Scientist
  7. Dental Hygienist
  8. Software Engineer
  9. Occupational Therapist
  10. Computer Systems Analyst

(Source: Forbes & CareeerCast.com)

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