Re:This Guy Has My MacBook
by zackattack on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @01:40AM
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Actually I think it sucks when you consider that you're much more likely to die on the job as a CHP officer than as a programmer.
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Garbage collector death rate: 47/100,000 per year
Roofer death rate: 35/100,000 per year
Lumberjack death rate: 92/100,000 per year
Police death rate: 13/100,000 per year
None of these jobs requires a college degree. The average roofer salary is 36k/year, 42% of the salary of a job with a 63% lower death rate.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/26/pf/jobs_jeopardy/
Granted, being a police officer is certainly a more risky profession than programming, but I'm not sure that the chance of getting killed on the job is higher for police officers than for truck or cab drivers.