Financial Planner Near Top Of Dream Job List; Journalist Bottom

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Mark Melin
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Congratulations, would-be journalists. Your employment prospects have just improved. Journalist second-worst job behind maid, cook According to a new survey from CareerCast, which releases a list of America’s 200 best and worst jobs, “newspaper reporter” moved up one spot to 199, climbing from last year’s rank as the worst job in America. This year journalists beat out lumberjack, ranked 200, but still remained behind enlisted military personnel, taxi driver, head cook, garbage collector, corrections officer and dock worker.  Interestingly, in this lower tier of jobs was also photojournalist, ranked 186; advertising salesperson, ranked 189; and broadcaster, ranked 196. Top of…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.