Mathematician is best recession job
Being a mathematician is the best job you can have during a recession, claim employment experts.
After analyzing a number of jobs in terms of, job security, emotional stress, hiring outlook and basic physical safety, they found number jobs came out top.
Behind mathematician in the list of top 10 recession jobs was insurance actuary and statistician.
Contrary to the Monty Python song "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK" the experts at CareerCast.com say the red flannel shirt wearing, tree cutting job is the worst to have at the moment.
"When you're working in a job that you don't particularly enjoy - or if you've recently lost your job after many years - it's easy to imagine that the grass may be greener for people in other careers." said a spokesperson for CareerCast.
"But unless you pepper those people with questions, it's hard to find out what their work is really like. How stressful is their job, what's the work environment like and is there room for growth?"
BEST JOBS DURING ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
1) MATHEMATICIAN
2) ACTUARY
3) STATISTICIAN
4) BIOLOGIST
5) SOFTWARE ENGINEER
6) COMPUTER SYSTEMS ANALYST
7) HISTORIAN
8) SOCIOLOGIST
9) INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
10) ACCOUNTANT
WORST JOBS DURING ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
1) LUMBERJACK
2) DAIRY FARMER
3) TAXI DRIVER
4) SEAMAN
5) EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN
6) ROOFER
7) GARBAGE COLLECTOR
8) WELDER
9) ROUSTABOUT
10) IRONWORKER
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