Comments about ‘New study shows which professions are hiring in Utah’

They call these service jobs a profession? Most are short term and thankless jobs with no pride of accomplishments by individuals. They are dead end jobs that don't challenge a worker.

Where is industry and the well paying jobs? I mean jobs that pay $30-$40 an hour so they can live and be independent and afford health care insurance and have an expendable income? The income level of wages in Utah are based on government dependence and welfare assistance. They also create dependence on debt and credit as negative incomes. Those kinds of jobs are nothing to brag about and cannot support independence of individuals.

When the state can eliminate any and all welfare programs to aid underpaid slave labor income, then it will have something to brag about.

Yeah, I can see a person whose been operating a site grader for the last 20 years, or even a construction engineer or project manager even, switching careers and becoming a pharmacy technician. That's really good news.

Seems to me like jobs in health care, pharmacists, even truck drivers are pretty good, steady, decent paying long term jobs. Careers, even, if you want to go that way. As for being able to afford health insurance...if we all chipped in a bit we could provide care (not insurance) for all at a more efficient cost for everyone.

Something does not add up in our health care costs. 50 years ago, medical expenses were a tiny fraction of our costs, of our income. You went to the doctor only occasionally, no one hardly ever went to the hospital, except to have a baby, or for a broken leg. Now, health care, it seems, is the focus of our lives, and consumes huge amounts of our income. Me thinks the health care industry has done a whale of a sales job in convincing us that we need all that they're pedaling.

Tech sector has been going great guns for the past few years. True, I have a lot of experience in the techie world, but I've easily gotten 5 unsolicited calls for employment each month for the past year plus.

I work as a pharmacy tech for Omnicare. A year ago they took 4% of our pay away. We also have not had a raise in 2 years. The CEO of the company received a 7 million dollar raise though. We are also hiring like crazy. The company is making tons of money but not the employees.

Seeing it and being a outsider, living in the tropics, and the largest swing state in the country, in Florida, I see 2 job openings, all I want to see now, is those tought cowboy people in Utah that's a real red neck conservative to grab them. Despite the recession and a 7.2 percent unemployment rate in Utah, the "which professions are hiring in Utah" is a easy question. Open jobs filled quickly during the fourth quarter. In a second here, here's two jobs that are open that the vast majority go into it because they want to take care of people with earmarks and pork project's. Those two job's are a open seat in Congress because Hatch and Bennett are history. FDR Destroys GOP, Sen. Hatch on Obamanopoly. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Where are the good paying jobs?

"where is the benefit to Americans of offshoring? the answer is that the benefit is confined to a few highly paid executives who receive multi-million dollar bonuses for increasing profits by offshoring jobs. The rest of the big money went to Wall Street crooks who sold trusting people subprime derivatives"

RE: My2Cents
Why don't you create those high paying jobs instead of complaining that someone other than yourself hasn't. And I am sure when you are looking for a service company to use when something of yours breaks you are looking for the most expensive place to have your repairs made to enable employers to pay those types of salaries. I would love to pay all my employees those wages unfortunately people aren't willing to pay the prices that would be necessary to charge to make that happen and I guarantee everyone on here complaining are not willing to either. Unless you want to pay $200 for someone to come look at your heater or $100 dollars to mow your lawn it isn't going to happen. If you find a way go do it and put all of us evil business owner out on the street.