{"id":277,"date":"2010-01-16T09:56:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2010-01-16T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T15:56:50","slug":"want-to-work-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/want-to-work-in-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Work in the Media?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study released this week by CareerCast.com, and reported in the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123119236117055127.html\">WSJ<\/a>, evaluates 200 professions to determine the best and worst according to five criteria: environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands and stress. Of course these are somewhat subjective criteria and your experience may be quite different from those reported by CareerCast.<\/p>\n<p>So just how did the media-related professions stack up against the competition? Well, let&#8217;s look first at the very best and very worst jobs out there. At the top of the list are three math-related professions: mathematician (#1), actuary (#2), and statistician (#3&#8230;Audience Research students, please note this one!). The worst? Lumberjack (#200), dairy farmer (#199), and taxi driver (#198).<\/p>\n<p>A quick scan for media jobs yields a wide range on the scale of 1-200. Here they are from best to worst.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#19 Motion Picture Editor<\/li>\n<li>#23 Web Developer<\/li>\n<li>#31 Publication Editor<\/li>\n<li>#44 Market Research Analyst<\/li>\n<li>#75 Newscaster<\/li>\n<li>#79 Advertising Account Executive<\/li>\n<li>#108 DJ<\/li>\n<li>#112 Public Relations Executive<\/li>\n<li>#140 Reporter (newspaper), Janitor is #141<\/li>\n<li>#167 Photojournalist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Data used to determine the ranking came from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau, as well as other sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study released this week by CareerCast.com, and reported in the WSJ, evaluates 200 professions to determine the best and worst according to five criteria: environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands and stress. Of course these are somewhat subjective criteria and your experience may be quite different from those reported by CareerCast. So just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/want-to-work-in-the-media\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Want to Work in the Media?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-industry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}