Avoid These Five Low-Pay, Dead-End Careers (credit report, degree, jobs, companies)

[bumpus7]

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Avoid These Five Low-Pay, Dead-End Careers



Maybe ... maybe not ... what do you think ?

Avoid These Five Low-Pay, Dead-End Careers - Yahoo! Education

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[Hemlock140]

I agree with #1. I have only been in a local bank once in the last 4-5 years and that was to close an account. There were only two tellers despite 6 windows, and neither had a customer. Banking online and at ATMs has become normal, using a teller is a thing of the past.

[jwiley]

While Tellers will be in much less demand in the future, I would still not say they are dead end careers, many people move up from being a teller to a personal banker and then a business banker, and they make decent money once they start moving up.

Also the credit analyzer position has been destroyed with the fallout from the housing mess, the who idea that being able to pull credit reports online will destroy it is untrue simply due to the fact that companies have been able to get reports for at least the last 20 years. the biggest difference is that most lenders are using credit scores as the main requirement on loan qualification as opposed to allowing more compensating factors.

the other 3 jobs I do not know enough about to really know about their futures, but I do think the whole graphic designers having a bright future is oversold. i meet Graphic designers almost daily it seems, many of them cannot find a graphic design job so they are working other jobs and doing graphic design projects on the side. I can see even a 10% growth being easily absorbed by those already in the field who do not have enough work to do it full time right now.

[sponger42]

The Fashion Designer / Art Director pair is stupid. You get to be an Art Director by starting out in the trenches as a Fashion Design Assistant, then a Designer, then a Lead Designer, then an Art Director.

Of course, you can only climb the ladder if you have a good amount of creativity and drive, and can actually design and produce garments which people will buy. Then you also need the discipline to get an advanced degree like an MBA. Very few so-called fashion designers can actually do this.

[Teckeeee]

Every time I think of teller I think I wouldn't want someone I know to do a job you have a better than avg. chance of being robbed for peanuts. Better than armed car sure, but for the money why not work front desk in hotel pay is similar I would guess.

[BigDGeek]

I was amused that the alternate career for a credit analyzer was actuary. They're nowhere near the same, and actuaries need to be spectacular at math to advance. You need to have very strong math just to pass the first exam. Many actuaries have at least a bachelor's degree in math. It's not an easy field to get into.

[Teckeeee]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

I was amused that the alternate career for a credit analyzer was actuary. They're nowhere near the same, and actuaries need to be spectacular at math to advance. You need to have very strong math just to pass the first exam. Many actuaries have at least a bachelor's degree in math. It's not an easy field to get into.

I had a distant relative that was an actuary, and yes you have to be a math expert. They seem to be the best with stats there are, save wall street types.

[randomlikeme]

I felt that way about bank teller and financial analyst, too. or really any of the "try these instead!" positions.

[Catdancer]

They forgot to add Hack Yahoo Journalist. Judging by the quality of most Yahoo articles, they can't pay much.

[pekemom]

Originally Posted by randomlikeme

I felt that way about bank teller and financial analyst, too. or really any of the "try these instead!" positions.

Yes, some are incredible leaps like...instead of being a barber be a surgeon, they both involve cutting..