Computer Networking Administrator

At one time, companies primarily utilized network specialist’s when first purchasing a new computer system. Such a person typically worked for the firm that sold the equipment and would come into the company to install all of the hardware and get the network up and running. He or she would only return when problems in this filed has increased significantly because, in addition to the technicians working for outside vendors, many companies also employ their own fill-time network administrator. There is someone on site, I many cases available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Estimated 1999 Starting Salary: $72,250-$ 95,000.

The core of the new economy is information. There is a great need for experts who can successfully store and manage all of this information. Database managers will be counted on to establish systems that are efficient and make it possible to retrieve information quickly when needed.

Estimated 1999 Starting Salary:

$ 72,000-$ 90,000

To ensure that all of this information is protected, companies will increasingly rely on high-tech security specialists. The need for the night watchman notwithstanding, the real threat to a company’s security is through its computer network, when the perpetrator could be thousands of miles away. Security specialists will be required to constantly monitor, test and update computer security devices to guard against intruders. Many of these security specialists will be ex-hackers.

Estimated 1999 Starting Salary: $50,000- $ 73,000

In the not-too distant future the World Wide Web will be the center of world commerce. Companies will pay big bucks to people who can help their web site stand out in the vast expanse of cyberspace. Additionally, in order for sites to keep customers coming back, they will need to be easy to navigate, make ordering simple and guarantee security.

Estimated 1999 Starting Salary: $51,500- $ 73,000

Approximately 76 million Baby Boomers are heading toward retirement. Many expect to quit working early, before they are even entitled to reduced Social Security benefits. Financial planners will be in high demand to help them make plans for living comfortably in their golden years.

Estimated 1999Starting Salary:

$ 40,000- $ 60,000

No longer will these individuals be considered glorified secretaries. They will hold an increasingly important role in the success of an organization. They will manage projects and design presentations. Administrative assistants will be especially vital in the small entrepreneurial organization where the firm’s principals can focus on research, development and exploring new business opportunities. In this environment, administrative assistants could have the responsibility of managing the firm, seeing that budgets are kept, schedules are mer, etc.

Estimated 1999 Starting Salary:

$ 19,000- $ 31, 250

The internet, as well as other advances such as voice recognition technology and scanning devices, will eliminate the need to have someone sit at a keyboard all day. For example, in the case of magazine subscriptions, those who do not get their news directly from a computer into the magazine database, without any help from humans. One subscriptions manager from Time magazine noted, "The Interest and volume from the Internet is definitely picking up and is expected to be a material source of new subscriptions in the coming years."

The need for traditional travel agents is rapidly fading. Through the Internet, travelers can research destinations, make hotel reservations, arrange car rentals and purchase airline tickets. The reduction of fees paid to travel agents by airline tickets. The reduction of fees paid to travel agents by airlines is another contributing factor.

Tele shopping could event-ually lead to the demise of traditional stores and malls. While still small percentage of overall retail sales, online shopping is growing faster than most experts forecast. As catalog and Internet shopping grow in popularity, the traditional store will eventually become merely a place to showcase products, a place where individuals can see, touch, try on , or sit on a product. Ultimately, however, customers will make their purchase via phone or computer.

Between mergers and the growing popularity of Internet banking, the job market for bank tellers in on the decline. The banking industry has been going through a period of heavy consolidation since deregulation. The resulting branch closures and the increased reliance on automated teller machines have caused the number of bank tellers to drop to 446,000 in 1997 from 467, 000 in 1987.

Technological advances like voice mail, e-mail, cellular networks and portable digital assistants (PDAs) are eliminating the needs for traditional secretaries. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment of secretaries who do not specialize in legal or medical work is expected to decline between now and 2006. Those who expect to stay in this filed will have to expand their case of knowledge and skills to become more in line with the administrative assistant role.

Web site like e-Trade and Ameritrade may replace traditional brokerage houses.

New technology, especially the Internet, has had a dramatic impact on the entire society. Now where is this impact more prevalent than the job market, where technology has been both the creator and the destroyer of jobs.

A good portion of the phenomenal job growth the country has experienced in recent years has come from the high-tech sector and its seemingly endless procession of new start-ups.

However, while the evolution of computers and related technology creates thousands of jobs every year, the very nature, of this technology reduces jobs in other areas by making it possible for one person to complete many tasks or by eliminating the need for humans altogether.

Those who will succeed in the new millennium must have a through understanding and comfort with technology. Even if one does not go directly into the high-tech industry, he or she will likely rely heavily on technology to do his or her job.