Raleigh, NC made number 3 slot. Impressive.

Quote :

"3. RALEIGH, NC 2-year job-growth forecast: 5.8% Metropolitan-area population: 1.5 million Who's hiring now: Cisco, Credit Suisse Group, Fidelity Investments, Network Appliance Hottest jobs: Senior software develeoper ($91,000), software project manager ($87,300), senior network engineer ($84,100), IT project manager ($83,300), pharmaceuticals project manager ($82,300), biotech research scientist ($75,300) Raleigh-Durham remains America's top region for tech workers--and is expected to keep expanding faster than other tech hubs like Boston, San Francisco, and Seattle. Last year the metro matched the job-creation record it set in 2000 by adding 38,000 new positions. "This year is going to come in almost as high," predicts Wachovia senior economist Mark Vitner. Like Washington, Raleigh-Durham has a large public-sector base that helps protect it from economic slumps. But its economy is more diverse than Washington's, with expansion in pharmaceutical manufacturing, biotech, and financial services. Raleigh's cost advantages keep drawing more top employers. This fall Fidelity Investments will open a $100 million tech center that will add 2,000 jobs, and Silicon Valley-based Network Appliance is expanding its operations division here. "Raleigh is cheaper," Vitner says, "and has one of the most highly educated workforces in the country.""

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0704/gallery.jobs_markets.biz2/3.html

4/28/2007 10:44:11 PM

apparently florida is the future of US economy

another list, another joke

4/28/2007 10:47:58 PM

was number 1 on forbes list of 100 top cities for jobs

4/28/2007 10:48:47 PM

Raleigh #1! #3!

That's pretty good growth though.

Kind of arbitrary list though. Looks like they just picked fast-growing areas and picked the highest-paying jobs in the area (that are available). Perhaps not what the majority of available jobs are or what their actual average pay is.

*shrug*

Growth is growth, it's good for our area.

4/28/2007 10:54:16 PM

I kinda wish we could stay off these lists. They are attracting a lot of riffraff.

4/28/2007 11:17:51 PM

Charlotte was right after at #4

4/28/2007 11:20:12 PM

^^ Couldn't agree more. I don't want no more traffic into RTP

4/28/2007 11:23:24 PM

I think it's a sign things are getting out of hand when people are picking up and moving here without even finding jobs first and who aren't even all that highly skilled. I've heard of two families that did this recently. It's like they heard that the streets are paved with gold.

[Edited on April 28, 2007 at 11:29 PM. Reason : ?]

4/28/2007 11:28:48 PM

yeah im happy with what we got. no more _____________s

4/28/2007 11:29:03 PM

Quote :

"I think it's a sign things are getting out of hand when people are picking up and moving here without even finding jobs first"

I interviewed a guy who moved his family to raleigh from tampa last year with the same idea in his head. He actually did interview well and we ended up hiring him. but still, that's pretty fuckin' risky to do that.

4/29/2007 8:19:04 AM

THATS ODD. everybody in Florida is trying to move to NC. i totally don't get it.

4/29/2007 8:32:08 AM

living in both places 8 years in NC and 2 years in Miami. i don't get the attraction . . .

4/29/2007 8:32:51 AM

most people don't center their lives around coke and whores.

4/29/2007 9:32:52 AM

tragically you are right

4/29/2007 9:34:24 AM

Quote :

"I think it's a sign things are getting out of hand when people are picking up and moving here without even finding jobs first and who aren't even all that highly skilled. I've heard of two families that did this recently. It's like they heard that the streets are paved with gold."

it has been like that for a while. my parents moved us to the Sanford area from upstate NY about 11 years ago. Neither of them had a job when we got here. But my brothers had already been living down here for a few years before we moved; although, they also came to find jobs.


There are a lot of places where there just aren't any jobs for young people, or people that get laid off . . . so what do you expect them to do? Of course they are going to move somewhere where they can find work.

4/29/2007 10:12:57 AM

these lists are completely worthless

4/29/2007 10:16:25 AM

The new manager we just hired moved from Florida to Chapel Hill in part because she heard good things about the job market in the triangle area (also the schools here, and having liked the area while visiting)… but still moved before having a job secured.

4/29/2007 10:45:08 AM

this is exactly what Raleigh needs, more fucking traffic on I-40 and other major roads

jesus christ, i think there should be a move-in tax for those that move here

4/29/2007 12:29:20 PM

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0704/gallery.jobs_new_careers.biz2/

Quote :

"The new new careers The United States may keep shedding jobs to foreign countries, but it cranks out new occupations like no one else. Here are just five of the hottest you can get into now."

Click link for full details, excerpts below.

I don't get number 5. What's "Second Life"? A game? A virtual world? I will google it I guess...

1) Disease Mapper
Salary range:$40,000-$150,000

Experience/skills: A Ph.D. or master's in a tech field, plus expertise in a particular disease.


2) Robot Programmer
Salary range: $40,000-$100,000

Experience/skills: Associate degree in a technical field and extensive training. People skills also come in handy.


3) Information Engineer
Salary range: $70,000-$120,000

Experience/skills: Data analytics, network administrator experience, writing skills


4) Radiosurgeon
Salary range: $200,000-$800,000

Experience/skills: Certified radiation oncologists must take three-week training course.


5) Second Life Lawyer
Salary range: Too early to say

Experience/skills: Software and intellectual property law expertise

Perks: The freedom to be talking to a client while getting a beer out of your home fridge

Who's hiring? Programmers looking to patent their code

Of the 2 million or so Second Life members, more than 25,000 are aspiring entrepreneurs. Most are buying and selling land, designing homes and clothes, or creating products, from jewelry to virtual pets. The stakes are small, but they're rising fast: According to Linden Lab, creator of Second Life, only 116 members made more than $5,000 in February, but that number is triple what it was six months earlier.

Count Stevan Lieberman among the virtual world's earning elite. Instead of trying to practice purely virtual law--which few if any lawyers have turned into real money--Lieberman has taken a hybrid approach, using Second Life as a meet-and-greet area for new clients, who then take their real-world legal needs offline. And since he took in $7,000 in fees in the first two weeks after hanging up his virtual shingle, he's optimistic: "I fully expect to keep getting more business this way."

So bullish is Lieberman that he's helping to set up the site's first "law island," a place for other members' practices and legal entities to do business. The American Bar Association and the FBI have asked him to help them set up their outposts too.

4/29/2007 1:37:40 PM

OK I looked it up on wiki.

How the hell does one make money in a virtual world, if it is all virtual objects you are buying and selling?

And practicing virtual law?

This doesn't make sense to me.

4/29/2007 1:42:10 PM

I stumbled on this site yesterday... it shows just how many people are coming here.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/north-carolina/

some of them really do sound like they're winging it and moving here because it's the trendy thing to do.

4/29/2007 1:45:35 PM

that board makes my skin crawl. Basically they all can't make it where they live, so they want to come here, drive up our cost of living, and then complain about our culture.

I don't understand why they don't try to make NY and NJ better instead of running away.

[Edited on April 29, 2007 at 2:43 PM. Reason : ?]

4/29/2007 2:37:47 PM

^ Yes, they need to go away

4/29/2007 2:43:54 PM

^^ hey look, an idiot!

4/29/2007 3:13:35 PM

^^^^someone needs to tell those morons that "scattered smothered covered" is a waffle house thing, not a southern thing

go home plz

4/29/2007 3:17:00 PM

Credit Suisse Group, they have been hiring for years, wonder what the deal is...and yeah the IT department gets $$$ but the Operations side gets shit on.

4/29/2007 3:51:15 PM

when my cousin lost his job in Ohio, he came into NC and lived with my parents for few weeks, and found a job in Charlotte. He now lives here, and i think he likes it a whole lot. But i see a lot of that happening here, eventually the population growth will exceed the job market

4/29/2007 3:56:26 PM

That whole "Grapes Of Wrath" moving strategy seems very unwise. Is it really that hard to line up a job remotely?

I also don't understand why people would want to move to a boom town unless they had no choice. Seems like you would just be competing with other high-tech migrants for housing and congested highways.

4/30/2007 11:42:16 AM

I HATE THE NORTH SO MUCH!!!

4/30/2007 11:54:36 AM

4/30/2007 12:00:06 PM

judging from the comments, i take it that i'm not the only one who resents all these clusterfucks moving here to bogart our shit

...so to speak

4/30/2007 1:59:31 PM

Even the people who moved here from NY/NJ like 2 years ago resent it.

4/30/2007 3:02:57 PM

heh, we beat charlotte

Still.. #3 / #4 for NC.. we're cleaning up.

4/30/2007 3:10:14 PM

i cant stand the people in this thread that are like "i hate making these lists, it encourages people to move here"

i mean how fucking unamerican is that

4/30/2007 3:13:10 PM

it's funny that they mention fidelity. My buddy was a painting major at ECU and just got hired as a 401 k consultant. Granted, he's starting at 31k with a 10% signing bonus, but still, dude has NO experience in that department. He said he got the job by saying "proactive" a lot.

4/30/2007 3:34:13 PM

ahahahaha, i'm already a mix of #1 and #3... a BA in chem and a masters later and I'm gonna go hunting for one of those jobs....

4/30/2007 3:37:09 PM

^^^ It's not un-American. Growth can be a major pain in the ass. Unfortunately, the way things work is most of the benefits of growth goes to those moving in and most of the negatives goes to those already here.

For instance, these folks expect to be able to put their children in school immediately. Most of them bring a wad of cash from higher price real estate and over pay driving up prices for the rest of us. And to top it off, most of them end up complaining and raising hell when they end up being disappointed b/c it's not as great as they thought it was.

4/30/2007 3:45:38 PM

i dont know about you, but im pretty good at making generalizations.

4/30/2007 3:47:43 PM

Of course they are generalizations. What's your point?

4/30/2007 4:03:22 PM

what makes Radiosurgeon such a job with that salary? Do they use only gamma ray technology or the other "methods" of surgery? Or is it because cancer treatment is so high, and they will be in such demand? That would be sweet, but a hard, hard profession to deal with. I think I would get TOO attached to patients in ANY clinical setting- I'm not sure I could be a doctor.

4/30/2007 5:53:15 PM