50 Best Jobs for Your Personality

Part III ________________________________________________________________________________

Conventional Jobs with the Highest Percentage

of Self-Employed Workers

Percent Self-

Job Employed Workers

1. Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate ............................................................................ 32.7%


2. Medical Transcriptionists ....................................................................................................... 9.7%


3. Accountants and Auditors ..................................................................................................... 9.5%


4. Financial Analysts .................................................................................................................. 8.3%

Best Conventional Jobs Overall with 8

Percent or More Self-Employed Workers

Percent
Self-Employed Annual Percent Annual
Job Workers Earnings Grow th Openings

1. Financial Analysts ........................................................ 8.3% ........ $70,400 ........33.8% ....... 29,317


2. Accountants and Auditors ........................................... 9.5% ........ $57,060 ........17.7% .....134,463


3. Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate .................. 32.7% ........ $46,130 ........16.9% .........6,493


4. Medical Transcriptionists ............................................. 9.7% .........$31,250 .......13.5% .......18,080

Best Jobs for Each Personality Type

with a High Percentage of Women and

of Men

We knew we would create some controversy when we fi rst included the best jobs lists with

high percentages of men and women in an earlier Best Jobs book. But these lists are not

meant to restrict women or men from considering job options—one reason for including

these lists is exactly the opposite. We hope the lists will help people see possibilities that they

might not otherwise have considered. For example, we suggest that women browse the lists

of jobs that employ high percentages of men. Many of these occupations pay quite well, and

women who want to do them and are willing to undertake the education or training should

consider them.

To create the lists, we sorted the jobs of each personality type that met the criteria for

this book and included only those employing 70 percent or more of women or men. For

the Realistic, Investigative, and Enterprising personality types, the list of predominantly

male jobs is much longer than the list of predominantly female jobs. For the Social and

Conventional personality types, you’ll fi nd the opposite to be true. In fact, there is no list for