The chart above is a little different, I posted it as a factor to add in. I actually like it a little better than the top 20 listed below that is more commonly referenced. Of I’m Biased because I am an online worker lol.

1. Actuary

Interprets statistics to determine probabilities of accidents, sickness, and death, and loss of property from theft and natural disasters.

Overall Score: 123.00
Income: $91,211.00

Work Environment:
44.000
Stress:
16.000
Hiring Outlook:
29.11

2. Biomedical Engineer

Anazlyes and design solutions to problems in biology and medicine, with the goal of improving the quality and effectiveness of patient care.

Overall Score: 133.00
Income: $85,163.00

Work Environment:
49.000
Stress:
16.000
Hiring Outlook:
62.63

3. Software Engineer

Researches, designs, develops and maintains software systems along with hardware development for medical, scientific, and industrial purposes.

Overall Score: 136.00
Income: $89,147.00

Work Environment:
49.000
Stress:
12.000
Hiring Outlook:
17.67

4. Audiologist

Diagnoses and treats hearing problems by attempting to discover the range, nature, and degree of hearing function.

Overall Score: 140.00
Income: $68,135.00

Work Environment:
52.000
Stress:
9.000
Hiring Outlook:
37.35

5. Financial Planner

Related to careers in portfolio management, the financial planner offers a broad range of services aimed at assisting individuals in managing and planning their financial future.

Overall Score: 159.00
Income: $107,222.00

Work Environment:
49.000
Stress:
19.000
Hiring Outlook:
32.22

6. Dental Hygienist

Clean teeth, examine patients for oral diseases such as gingivitis, and provide other preventative dental care. They also educate patients on ways to improve and maintain good oral health.

Overall Score: 161.00
Income: $69,107.00

Work Environment:
53.000
Stress:
12.000
Hiring Outlook:
36.07

7. Occupational Therapist

Develops individualized programs of activity for mentally, physically, developmentally and emotionally impaired persons, to aid them in achieving self-reliance.

Overall Score: 166.00
Income: $74,108.00

Work Environment:
52.000
Stress:
13.000
Hiring Outlook:
32.08

8. Optometrist

Diagnoses visual disorders and prescribes and administers corrective and rehabilitative treatments.

Overall Score: 190.00
Income: $95,254.00

Work Environment:
53.000
Stress:
17.000
Hiring Outlook:
35.54

9. Physical Therapist

Plans and directs treatment to improve mobility and alleviate pain in persons disabled by injury or disease.

Overall Score: 199.00
Income: $78,102.00

Work Environment:
58.000
Stress:
14.000
Hiring Outlook:
38.02

10. Computer Systems Analyst

Develops computer systems for businesses and scientific institutions.

Overall Score: 212.00
Income: $79,145.00

Work Environment:
45.000
Stress:
16.000
Hiring Outlook:
20.45

11. Chiropractor

Treats physical problems by manipulating various parts of the body, especially the spinal column.

Overall Score: 216.00
Income: $66,361.00

Work Environment:
55.000
Stress:
13.000
Hiring Outlook:
29.61

12. Speech Pathologist

Assesses hearing, speech, and language disabilities and provides treatment. Assists individuals with communication disorders through diagnostic techniques.

Overall Score: 218.00
Income: $69,143.00

Work Environment:
51.000
Stress:
12.000
Hiring Outlook:
22.43

13. Physiologist

Assesses, plans, or implements fitness programs that include exercise or physical activities such as those designed to improve cardiorespiratory function, body composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance, or flexibility.

Overall Score: 224.00
Income: $83,058.00

Work Environment:
56.000
Stress:
15.000
Hiring Outlook:
28.58

14. University Professor

Instructs students in a wide variety of academic and vocational subjects beyond the high school level. They also conduct research and publish scholarly papers and books.

Overall Score: 244.00
Income: $64,343.00

Work Environment:
44.000
Stress:
6.450
Hiring Outlook:
16.43

15. Veterinarian

Administers to the care of animals through the use of preventative and diagnostic techniques.

Overall Score: 258.00
Income: $83,184.00

Work Environment:
66.000
Stress:
15.000
Hiring Outlook:
36.84

16. Dietitian

Assesses patients’ dietary needs, plans menus, and instructs patients and their families about proper nutritional care.

Overall Score: 259.00
Income: $54,124.00

Work Environment:
47.000
Stress:
10.000
Hiring Outlook:
18.24

17. Pharmacist

Advises physicians and patients on the affects of drugs and medications; prepares and dispenses prescriptions.

Overall Score: 268.00
Income: $113,071.00

Work Environment:
57.000
Stress:
15.000
Hiring Outlook:
20.71

18. Mathematician

Applies mathematical theories and formulas to teach or solve problems in a business, educational, or industrial climate.

Overall Score: 270.00
Income: $101,171.00

Work Environment:
42.000
Stress:
12.000
Hiring Outlook:
13.71

19. Sociologist

Studies human behavior by examining the interaction of social groups and institutions.

Overall Score: 278.00
Income: $74,195.00

Work Environment:
47.000
Stress:
18.000
Hiring Outlook:
18.95

20. Statistician

Tabulates, analyzes, and interprets the numeric results of experiments and surveys.

Overall Score: 296.00
Income: $74,200.00

Work Environment:
44.000
Stress:
14.000
Hiring Outlook:
14.0

Back up your stuff

Back up your files. Do it now, do it often, do not put it off until your hard drive suddenly and unexpectedly perishes or until your laptop is stolen from a cafe when you run to the bathroom.

Everyone will have different backup needs, but for the most basic computer backups there are a few basic options. You can use an external hard drive or a cloud service. There are services like Carbonite, which will automatically back up photos, music, documents and emails for an annual fee. If you have an Apple computer, turn on Time Machine and it will backup your files to the drive of your choice in the background.

You also can use a cloud storage service like Dropbox or Google Drive to save a copy of select files. A nice Dropbox feature is that it can automatically save new photos from connected cameras or smartphones to the cloud.

Organize your passwords

Still lost trying to log into any site you do not use often. Try choosing about three passwords and stick to them. be careful though some sites that or not secure enough can get hacked a long with your password. For that reason it’s good to change it every 6 months or so. Another nice trick is to think of the password as a code that you cut and paste rather than a word or memory.

Scan old photos

We all have them. The stacks of old photos hidden in boxes under the bed or collecting dust in basements. If you don’t have digital copies of these gems, stop stalling and start scanning. Natural disasters, floods and fires can wipe out film memories in an instant. To scan your images, get a flatbed scanner and place multiple images on the bed at a time. You can crop and retouch individual pictures later.

If manually scanning in each old photo sounds like too big (or boring) of an undertaking, you can hire a company to do it for you. Many local camera stores offer bulk-scanning services and will return your originals along with high-resolution TIFFs or JPEGs on a CD or hard drive. And you can store copies of your photos online in case your laptop crashes (see resolution No. 1).

If you’re comfortable sending your photos away, the best option is using a company that specialize in bulk photo scanning. They’ll even do light retouching and repairs for older pictures, videos and slides. Check out ScanDigital.com or ScanCafe.com.

Step away from the smartphone

Love this one, please people come back to the world.

If you spend most of the day with your nose buried a smartphone, tablet or computer, make an effort to break out of the digital world and interact more with the humans around you in 2013. Don’t habitually check your online social networks while hanging out with your flesh-and-blood friends. On a date? Don’t even think about texting. (Unless the date is going horribly and they’re in the bathroom and you need to arrange an emergency extraction.)

Attempt to live in the moment instead of just documenting the moment on Instagram. Yes, that sunset will look stunning with the Valencia filter, but it will look even better through your own eyeballs.

There’s a time and a place for texting and e-mailing and checking Twitter. But this year, let’s try to leave the screens in our pockets and bags more often and engage with the world around us.

Read the TOS and check privacy settings for your social networks

Terms of service are long, boring documents filled with impenetrable legalese. But before you upload content or share personal information with a site, take a few minutes to read over its terms of service — and any privacy agreements — so you have a better idea of who owns your data and what the company can do with it. Start with the biggies you’re probably already using such as Google, Facebook, Instagram, Yahoo and Twitter.

Next, take a trip to your privacy settings. Even if you had your settings just the way you wanted them a year ago, the company could have updated the controls and left some of your information exposed.

Learn something new online

Tech resolutions aren’t all preventative measures to avoid doom and gloom. You can also embark on fun, self-improvement projects. Quality classes are free and plentiful online. There are courses for every age, interest and attention span, from major universities and organizations.

Pick up a language, learn how to code at Codecademy or just be inspired by the best Ted Talks. Apple’s iTunes U is stocked with videos and podcasts of classes, as well as supporting materials like worksheets and ebooks. You can access them from a computer or download the ITunes U iPad or iPhone app. The YouTube Education channel has instructional videos on math, business, language and the other usual suspects, including fun experiments you can try at home. Check out the Spangler Science channel and prepare to simultaneously mess with and impress your kids.

Coursera offers free college courses from big name universities including Princeton, Emory, Stanford, Johns Hopkins and Columbia. Get the knowledge without the student loans (or course credit, unfortunately).

Microsoft will be killing off its Windows Live Messenger chat service on March 15, transitioning its more than 100 million users to Skype.

The company announced its plans to discontinue Messenger in November, but Microsoft sent a firm timetable to its users through e-mail on Tuesday. Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) is directing customers to sign in to Skype with their Windows Live login information, noting that their contact lists will automatically show up in the Skype software.

Microsoft bought Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion, but its integration with the Internet communications system has been a bit of a slog. Skype has a Windows app, but curiously, it lacks a Windows Phone 8 app — even though it offers an app for iPhone and Android devices. A preview version of a mobile Skype app for Windows Phone is in the works and will be available “soon,” according to the Skype team.

Microsoft has also failed to produce a Skype app for the Xbox, although rumors abound that one is coming this year.

The Windows Live Messenger service has faded in popularity as Skype, social networks and Google’s (GOOG, Fortune 500) chat service became a more common way of communicating with friends and family. Three years ago, Microsoft said the service had more than 300 million users, but it maintains just a third of that customer base today.

The service, which debuted as MSN Messenger in 1998, will continue to live on in China. To top of page

Got a minute? Check out these top ten flops of 2012.
You can learn a lot about what not to do by watching others fail. Too be honest these tech companies might of failed but the people who gave them a shot probably will not.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/28/tech/web/tech-fails-2012/index.html?npt=NP1

The tool that promises to launch the next era of websites, smartphone apps and online video is finally finished.

HTML5, the long-in-the-works update to the language that powers the Web, is “feature complete,” according to an announcement made Monday by the standards-setting Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C). There’s still some testing to be done, and it hasn’t yet become an official Web standard — that will come in 2014. But there won’t be any new features added to HTML5, which means Web designers and app makers now have a “stable target” for implementing it, W3C said.

The HTML5 language lets developers deliver in-the-browser experiences that previously required standalone apps or additional software like Java, Adobe’s (ADBE) Flash or Microsoft’s (MSFT, Fortune 500) Silverlight. It supports lightning-fast video and geolocation services, offline tools and touch, among other bells and whistles.

The W3C has been developing the spec for the better part of a decade.

“As of today, businesses know what they can rely on for HTML5 in the coming years,” W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe said in a prepared statement. “Likewise, developers will know what skills to cultivate to reach smart phones, cars, televisions, e-books, digital signs, and devices not yet known.”

Most of the top browser makers didn’t wait for the language to be 100% finished before building support for some elements into their software. The latest versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari are already compatible with most HTML5 elements.

Getting inspiration for entrepreneurs is like getting gas for a car. Without it you can’t can’t anywhere with a new start up yet a growing business. There is thousands of ways to get new ideas but without inspiration they will just spin in circles. Here is ten recent must see great business documentaries all business owners and entrepreneurs should watch at least once.

Freakonomics The Movie (2010)
Startup.com (2001)
Steve Jobs: One Last Thing (2011)
Beer Wars (2009)
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
The Call of the Entrepreneur (2007)
Ayn Rand: In Her Own Words (2011)
Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006)
We Live In Public (2009)

No household making more than $1 million each year should pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than a middle class family pays. This is the Buffett Rule—a simple principle of tax fairness that asks everyone to pay their fair share.

The Buffett Rule Explained

What’s the deal with our current tax system?

Under the current U.S. tax system, a number of millionaires pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes than a significant proportion of middle class families. Warren Buffett, for example, pays a lower effective tax rate than his secretary, and that’s not fair.

A full 22,000 households that made more than $1 million in 2009 paid less than 15 percent of their income in income taxes — and 1,470 managed to pay no federal income taxes on their million-plus-dollar incomes, according to the IRS.

And, the very wealthiest American households are paying nearly the lowest tax rate in 50 years— some are paying just half of the federal income tax that top income earners paid in 1960. But the average tax rate for middle class families has barely budged. The middle 20 percent of households paid 14 percent of their incomes in 1960, and 16 percent in 2010.

What is the Buffett Rule?

The Buffett Rule is a simple principle that everyone should pay their fair share in taxes. No household making more than a $1 million should pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than middle-class families pay. For the 98 percent of American families who make less than $250,000, taxes should not go up.

How would it make sure everyone pays their fair share?

The Buffett Rule would limit the degree to which the best-off can take advantage of loopholes and tax rates that allow them to pay less of their income in taxes than middle-class families.

Anyone who does well for themselves should do their fair share in return, so that more people have the opportunity to get ahead—not just a few. And at time when we need to pay down our deficit and invest in the things that help our economy grow and keep our country safe—education, research and technology, a strong military, Medicare and Social Security—giving tax breaks to millionaires simply doesn’t make sense.

1. No written plan. Don’t believe the myth that a business plan isn’t worth the effort. The discipline of writing down a plan is the best way to make sure you actually understand how to transform your idea into a business.

2. Slim or no revenue model. Even a non-profit has to generate revenue (or donations) to offset operating costs. If your product is free, or you lose money on every sale, it’s hard to make it up in volume. You may have the solution to world hunger, but if your customers have no money, your business won’t last long.

3. Limited business opportunities. Not every good idea can become a blockbuster business. Just because you passionately believe that your product or service is great, and everyone needs it, doesn’t mean that everyone will buy it. There is no substitute for market research, written by domain experts, to supplement your informal poll of friends and family.

4. Can’t execute. When young entrepreneurs come to me with that “million dollar idea,” I have to tell them that an idea alone is really worth nothing. It’s all about the execution. If you’re not comfortable making hard decisions and taking risks, you won’t do well in this role.

5. Too much competition. Having no competitors is a red flag — it may mean there’s no market — but finding ten or more with a simple Google search means your area of interest may be a crowded. Remember, sleeping giants can wake up. So, don’t assume that Microsoft or Procter & Gamble are too big and slow for you to worry about.

6. No intellectual property. If you expect to seek investors, or you expect to have a sustainable competitive advantage against giants in your industry, you need to register for patents, trademarks and copyrights, as well as enlist non-compete and non-disclosure agreements to protect trade secrets. Intellectual property is also often the largest element of early-stage company valuations for professional investors.

7. An inexperienced team. In reality, investors fund people, not ideas. They look for people with real experience in the business domain of the startup, and people with real experience running a startup. If this is your first time around, find a partner who has “been there and done that” to balance your passion and bring experience to the team.

8. Underestimating resource requirements. A major resource is cash funding, but other resources, such as industry contacts and access to marketing channels may be more important for certain products. Having too much cash, not managed wisely, can be just as devastating as too little cash. Don’t quit your day job until new revenue is flowing.

9. Not enough marketing. Having a slick word-of-mouth marketing strategy isn’t enough to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new media out there today. Even viral marketing costs real money and time. Without effective and innovative marketing across the range of media, you won’t have customers — or a business.

10. Giving in too early. In my experience, the most common cause of startup failure is the entrepreneur just gets tired, gives up and shuts down the company. Despite setbacks, many successful entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison kept slugging away on their vision until they found success.

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The obvious conclusion to changing the name of your website is that it will lose it’s popularity quick.

“You are going to lose traffic,” a SearchEngineLand blogger warned would-be name changers in 2009. “That is a fact. Even if you only perform a domain change and preserve the exact same site structure and content, you will lose some traffic.”

If that’s true, it spells bad news for MSNBC.com, which on Monday changed its name and URL to NBCNews.com following a split from Microsoft, the technology giant that had partnered with the U.S. news network to produce the website.

But maybe that assumption is outdated?

NBC, for its part, said it doesn’t expect the move to affect traffic. All existing URLs, including those linked on social media sites, will still work or will redirect to the new NBCNews.com URL, Vivian Schiller, NBC News chief digital officer, said in a conference call with reporters Monday. (The MSNBC cable channel will launch a new website in 2013 as an extension of its on-air brand, NBC News said.)

If you take a look at a few of the sites that have changed their names — it’s really rare for a site to do so, by the way — you see that many of them not only survive a name change but are able to thrive after it. Or maybe because of it.

Here’s a look at a few that have come out better on the other end of a URL switch:

Facebook: If you’re under 30, or if you saw “The Social Network,” you probably know that Facebook used to be called thefacebook.com. The company officially dropped the “the” in August 2005. That’s universally regarded as a good move, but it’s worth pointing out that the switch occurred before Facebook was a household name.

IMDB: The Internet Movie Database, now super popular and owned by Amazon, started in 1990 as a USENET group with the domain rec.arts.movies. The site then was hosted by Cardiff University before it migrated to IMDB.com, according to a feature in Total Film.

PerezHilton: The pop culture and gay news blog started out as PageSixSixSix.com, a reference to the New York Post’s gossip column. Now pretty much no one (except a friend from HLN’s website, who sent this reference) remembers the previous blog.

Overstock.com: The Internet retailer changed its name to O.co in 2011, but switched it back, as CNET reports, because of brand confusion. Consider this the warning for NBCNews.com, although NBC is already a recognizable brand in the United States. O.co, by the way, still redirects to Overstock’s site.

PayPal: Elon Musk founded a site called X.com in 1999. The next year, it would merge with Confinity to become PayPal, the well-known online payment system. According to PayPal’s official blog, the “X” was a reference to that “universally recognized programming variable” — a reference to innovation and creation. This may be the only example of a site’s URL actually getting less cool because of a change.

Twitter: The micro-blogging site launched in 2006 as Twttr because a “bird enthusiast” already owned the URL for Twitter.com, according to CNNMoney. Six months later, the company had enough money to buy some vowels.

Ask.com: Remember that fashionable digital butler from the ’90s? Ask.com began in 1996 as AskJeeves.com but fired Jeeves in 2005 to become Ask.com.

So simply put YES it can help and in some cases in needed to get over whatever plateau you may be at right now. I would suggest that you make sure the name can be remembered or catchy and is somewhat short. Unfortunately any domains like this will cost money, most likely lots of money.