US economy beats expectations to add 178,000 jobs in March
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alephnerd
airza
There was a healthcare strike that ended this month which counts as added jobs iirc
alephnerd
Good callout. I didn't take that into account.
toomuchtodo
Healthcare will carry the economy, 4M Boomers retire every year and these jobs cannot be offshored like finance and tech.
alephnerd
Also manufacturing. If you know how to code and real engineering skills like circuits, CAD, mechanical design, etc you will land a decent manufacturing role.
That said, why hire a SWE when most MechE programs have been requiring CS courses as well for over a decade now.
toomuchtodo
Unlikely (imho).
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The US service economy is ~83% of GDP. Manufacturing only makes up 8% of jobs in the US.
flextheruler
Your citations rely on JOLTS reporting on the manufacturing sector. The jolts report also states for the occupation of Mechanical Engineering a nearly 10% growth rate for the next decade. This is 3 times the average.
Manufacturing sector includes a significant minority of all mechanical engineers, but more to the point the sector includes nearly all jobs involved in manufacturing durable and nondurable goods. This includes machinists and technicians and assembly workers.
nslsm
Why isn’t this on the front page like the opposite article would be :’)
conception
We’ll see what it revises down to.
homeonthemtn
I found it on the front page...
jason_friman
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Interestingly, an additonal 15,000 manufacturing jobs; 26,000 construction jobs; and 91,000 healthcare and education jobs.
The only industries that saw severe layoffs were Financial Services and Information/Software.