What can you add to this list:
1. Pharmacists. This would be incredibly easy to automate.
2. Accountants. Hell, byzantine government rules are the only reason this career path exists in the first place.
3. Public transit employed. 120k/year to stand around in a San Francisco station and point people to the ticket kiosk? Really?
4. Letsrun.com poster. For all the reasons you've cited above.
Qwerty1 wrote:
1. Pharmacists. This would be incredibly easy to automate.
I don't think you have any idea what pharmacists actually do.
Physical therapists and massage therapists.
Heck, why pay doctors when I can just look stuff up on web me?
Surgery? I bet there is a walk through on utube that I can find.
Hospitalist wrote:
Qwerty1 wrote:1. Pharmacists. This would be incredibly easy to automate.
I don't think you have any idea what pharmacists actually do.
Yea, I know, I know. They do more than count pills. They help catch deadly drug interactions. Gee--a computer program could NEVER do that!
Qwerty1 wrote:
Hospitalist wrote:I don't think you have any idea what pharmacists actually do.
Yea, I know, I know. They do more than count pills. They help catch deadly drug interactions. Gee--a computer program could NEVER do that!
Okay, so build the program, then. Make me a robot that will round with my team and discuss various treatment options with various lists pros and cons for a patient with multiple comorbidities who is on drugs for a variety of different conditions, and I will use it if the price is right.
CEOs
not an accountant wrote:
Physical therapists and massage therapists.
My wife is a PT; I'll bite.
While the modern reality of Physical Therapy could be seen as skewed by non-market factors: doctorate required, increased integration into traditional medical/rehab practice, full integration into insurance, greater acceptance of overall preventative apoaches, etc. with an average pay at $80k,
I wouldn't say they're overpaid. Dental hygienists make similar and are following either a short list of set protocols (floss, clean, x ray) or step-by-step directions from a dentist, with healthy pay subsidies from insurance. PT's are creating their own diagnoses, plans, and (now) required notes/paperwork.
mechanical engineer here. 6 years of pretty intense schooling to weed out the nitwits and get licensed so that i can now do a job with basic calculations and computer programming that i could've done when i was 17.
Long Island Railroad conductors who punch tickets.
Hospitalist wrote:
Qwerty1 wrote:Yea, I know, I know. They do more than count pills. They help catch deadly drug interactions. Gee--a computer program could NEVER do that!
Okay, so build the program, then. Make me a robot that will round with my team and discuss various treatment options with various lists pros and cons for a patient with multiple comorbidities who is on drugs for a variety of different conditions, and I will use it if the price is right.
Most people think that all pharmacists just work at the local drugstore.
1) Medical doctors (surgeons)
2) Wall street finance people
3) Astronauts
No particular order.
teachers, duh. The make 80K+, can't be fired unless they diddle the kids, work part time with summers off, and for most of them the job is just glorified babysitting.
Way, way, way overpaid
m.e. wrote:
mechanical engineer here. 6 years of pretty intense schooling to weed out the nitwits and get licensed so that i can now do a job with basic calculations and computer programming that i could've done when i was 17.
I'm a civil, but come on, most of what we do we could have done in 6th grade.
However, the license exist so that we actually have take on liability for failure. If all you all are willing to check a box to give away your rights to sue, I could design a bridge per day.
Optometrists
Many types of lawyers
Visual media studies professors
Too many professions are underpaid due to crippling non-market factors though
If you give this teacher, this glorified baby sitter, 5 dollars for every student I see each day I will make a hell of a lot more than I make now.
yyy wrote:
1) Medical doctors (surgeons)
2) Wall street finance people
3) Astronauts
No particular order.
Hey, where is our favorite anti-Doctor poster, jjjj?!? I wonder what his answer will be on this topic?
The worst sponges are cops, firemen, teachers, trash collectors, subway drivers, bus drivers, civil servants.
Qwerty1 wrote:
1. Pharmacists. This would be incredibly easy to automate.
Pharmacists is a good one. 90% of their work is basically being sales clerks.
Nurses comes to mind, as well. They are being paid 25-30k a year in Europe, 100k+ in the US.