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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by gowld on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:45PM (#13562630)
> There was a graph not to long ago that showed the most common job in each state. In a huge swath of them, that job was "Truck Driver".

That was bogus, it had to do with the fact that "Truck Driver" didn't have fine-grained sub-classification in the taxonomy, while jobs like "teacher" did.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by notahacker on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:18PM (#13563413)
Similarly suspect statistics put the average age of commercial drivers at 55 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-14/2014-outl...

The average 55 year old has nothing to fear from semi-autonomous vehicle technology affecting their careers

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