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I don't have a ton to say about the content of the article other than a super boring, "that was interesting." One thing that was cool is the chart labeled "Switching Rate for Different Jobs." I've never seen that style of chart before and found it really effective for sharing the data. Does anyone know what that is called?
Another great example http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/25/sunday-review/...
There are some interesting quirks in the data if you click through the 'see a random occupation' button enough times. I wonder if they're artifacts of the sample size, or of the way certain professions are classified. Of people in the following professions who left their jobs - Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers: * 33% became Food batchmakers * 11% became Bakers Veterinarians: * 46% became Actuaries…
With the game wardens, I wonder if it's common to transition into the state or county police
Is there any way to view the inverse, "Which professions were most likely to switch to X?" I'd be interested to see where most developers are coming from , instead of where they're switching to . I couldn't figure out how to see that information from the page.
I'd like to see the career switching dataset in different forms to see what insights we could derive: network diagrams, heatmaps, and so forth -- visualizations that show the complex interconnectedness of this rich data.
The top jobs that computer programmers switched to are all other computer related jobs, some nearly identical depending on how you treat the term programmer, vs developer. Kind of depressing that once you become a computer programmer, you can't really escape computer work. Id like to hear more about people that go on to do something totally different successfully, like baking. Maybe its too uncommon. Also interesting…
There are some interesting quirks in the data if you click through the 'see a random occupation' button enough times. I wonder if they're artifacts of the sample size, or of the way certain professions are classified. Of people in the following professions who left their jobs - Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers: * 33% became Food batchmakers * 11% became Bakers Veterinarians: * 46% became Actuaries…
https://www.evernote.com/l/ASl5vTakJT1BrqerojTCghdg-NYssxXOo...
It seems ... unlikely that physicians switch to become pharmacists, optometrists, or physicians assistants. https://imgur.com/a/AKEus
eg; one year a Dentist says they're a Physician (maybe they didn't see the "Dentist" category) and the next year they say they're a Dentist.
The top jobs that computer programmers switched to are all other computer related jobs, some nearly identical depending on how you treat the term programmer, vs developer. Kind of depressing that once you become a computer programmer, you can't really escape computer work. Id like to hear more about people that go on to do something totally different successfully, like baking. Maybe its too uncommon. Also interesting…
I know a few people who left careers as software engineers to go to grad school in a different field, some to a humanities field. It's easier to escape computer work than most fields -- computer workers tend to have relatively high salaries and ought to be able to survive the transition period if they saved enough money.
But how.
