With 100 best jobs lists and 250 job descriptions, 150 Best Jobs for Your Skills, 2nd Ed helps readers identify their best skills and then connect them to the best jobs. A self-assessment zeroes in on your three best career skills. The skills used in the book represent the most important ones in today s economy: 1) communication, 2) computer programming, 3) equipment use/maintenance, 4) equipment/technology analysis, 5) management, 6) mathematics,

America in the 1800s was a very hard-working society. Early in the century, farmers, craftsmen, and housewives worked very much the way they had for centuries—by their own physical labor and "the sweat of their brow." The growing industrial economy brought millions of workers—people leaving their farms and new immigrants—into the factories and workshops of America, where the work was hard, the hours were long, and the pay was