by Effie Moore Salem

Created on: August 23, 2010   Last Updated: February 26, 2011

The fastest growing career choice in 2010 is health care. That, although deciding accurately is a hard topic to pinpoint since the business world reacts to the world according to its needs, and to what is available, but most of all to the latest trends, and these, as is obvious from all standpoints, are computer related. If we were simply asked what  businesses occupy the most workers, the answer would easily be health care. But is health care, despite its many studies, innovations, and breakthroughs, going to be the career of choice of the future? Absolutely not, and even within this field the more lucrative and growing careers will be in computer technology.  

One online site, money.usnews, goes steps further in explaining the job situation in the trying times of 2010, and in breaking the fastest growing jobs down into five broad categories, and then expounding on differences within each site. The explanations are good and overall the perspective on the job market is excellent. Another site, more to the point, simply prints out the top "most promising careers for 2010. Each has invaluable information for those planning future careers.

Health care, a topic of high profile in 2010, where supposedly, the whole industry will have completed  a  hairpin turnaround by the year 2020, is the career first mentioned by the US News as having the most promise. The second site listed health career choices far down the scale. What goes on here? How can two highly regarded web sites be so different?

After comparing the two, they are not actually different in facts, only in their approach to the question. "Computer software engineers, applications, computer support specialists, and computer software engineers, systems software," make up the first three listings in the second site. Within these three groups medicine and science and health in general play a big role, although unstated.  In the field of medicine alone, computer science and technology, while big on diagnostic and innovative methodology, lags far behind in the doctor to patient relationships, and in record keeping in general.

Therefore, in actuality, both sites are right in their assumptions. The fourth listing in B, the bare bones site, is "network systems and data communications analysis" and even that can be related to health care field, which was the fastest growing career choice in the first site, or site A, as opposed to site B, the list only site. Who are most in need of better data

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