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The Jobs Rated Almanac
Pharos Books (
October, 1992 )
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This book just reinforces stale old stereotypes of jobs.  |
I found that Krantzs book offered very little in the way of fresh insights for career choosers. Rather it just reinforced the same old stereotypes in todays society. Male-dominated professions were ranked higher on numerous criteria than typical female professions such as teacher, nurse, librarian, and the list goes on. Krantz includes such jobs as President of the USA, NCAA basketball coach, senior corporate executive. Perhaps he added jobs like this to give credibility to the scope and depth of his book, but it did not whitewash the fact that very little other than stereotypes is offered to the reader. Krantz does not cite sources for his information except for Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Office, and unspecified industry documents. It appears that Krantz just wrote things off the top of his head, especially when it came to the stress level for various jobs. I found many ratings of the authors to be totally out of touch with reality. Can something like stress even be calculated without blurting the same old stale attitudes toward various professions? There are too many variables from job to job within each specific profession to make such a general judgement anyhow. As a guidance counseler who tries to provide accurate information to students, I would not recommend this book to anyone. It only misguides and distorts the facts.
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The author of this book has no clue the work of librarians. I have been a public librarian for almost 8 years, at a reference desk. The stress level is high at many times. Whereas the author thinks librarians have low stress levels. Librarians, especially public ones, deal every day with all types of people. Also librarians deal with many different tasks at one time. Librarians do not sit around reading books. This book is pretty much worthless. Anyone who buys it is wasting their money
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horrible |
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this book was worthless.
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