{"id":107,"date":"2009-11-16T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2009-11-16T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T19:37:00","slug":"you-have-one-of-the-best-jobs-in-america-at-least-according-to-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/you-have-one-of-the-best-jobs-in-america-at-least-according-to-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have One of The Best Jobs in America (at least according to CNN)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, just <strong><em>having<\/em><\/strong> a job these days is a blessing!<\/p>\n<p>But since I get the privilege of working with project managers and other leaders, <strong>I was pleased to see that IT Project Managers ranked #5<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/moneymag\/bestjobs\/2009\/snapshots\/5.html\" target=\"_blanks\">CNN\/Money Magazine&#8217;s Best Jobs in America<\/a> survey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PM&#8217;s certainly didn&#8217;t show up on the list for lowest stress<\/strong>, as any of my project manager colleagues can confirm. Yet the job track of Project Manager continues to be a good career investment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you still procrastinating on getting your PMP certification?<\/strong> If so, check out my overview of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-leadonline.com\/GetYourPMP.asp\">how to get your PMP<\/a>. Invest in your career by getting your PMP in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. If you&#8217;re willing to take less money, be a College Professor that teaches project management! Professors hit #3 on the overall list (and #3 on the <em>Least Stressful<\/em> list). The fact that <em>Education\/Training Consultant<\/em> showed up #1 on the <em>Least Stressful<\/em> list makes me wonder about the validity of the survey, but I digress. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, just having a job these days is a blessing! But since I get the privilege of working with project managers and other leaders, I was pleased to see that IT Project Managers ranked #5 on CNN\/Money Magazine&#8217;s Best Jobs in America survey. PM&#8217;s certainly didn&#8217;t show up on the list for lowest&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/you-have-one-of-the-best-jobs-in-america-at-least-according-to-cnn\/#more-107\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67,42,23],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p488Wj-1J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}