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"You load sixteen tons, and what do you gst Another day older, and deeper in debt St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I ov;s my soul to the company store." . . From the song, "Sixteen Ton" Cctir d f-crj p. 6 There 3 It drveleptnent of national prcgra.'r.s and local cruzitlcrj dealg with healih care,menial health, aging, drug (pendencies and physical and mental dis abilities, he said. He ako expects labs to be created in hospitals, cainselliig programs and ksSxatty. The focus w3 be cn ccrenrjruty-eeeed programs rather then in- jtitutlcnel cqes. There a anetlcersriie attempt to teenee soeiel workers Ozrki reii. The eri rsrt shocU be "a more standard ized nrcrs cf qrIlty" n rociel work. A IXA. la sociology h not a prcfcsekmsl degree and wEI net qssflfy a person f cr a parflcrdarjcd. Annates! degree or ElD. is trsMng fcr a spedSc career, however, according to Dr. Harry Crockett, adver to graduate sta-. dents fa the Sociology Dept. The tiadlscnal job fcr FhD.'s has been college ' teaming. The need fcr college instructors has reduced, enrollment. HlD.'s cow are fmdmgjcbs in government sad research, bet about "half still go to college teaching and research, Crockett said. New jobs wE3 be created in state educational fields, health care, social work and in planning and administra tion of state institutions. "Health care services are really expanding, Crockett said, 'but there wO also be oppor tunities in education outside of the imiveisities, m recrea tion planning, other social services and business and industry."1 Crockett said he believed the projected trend cf move- Siimii!ii.ll'j'f feWf tfHU1.!l ' I .1.1, - ear; r- U'i ' ,i Jill ilt !i! I r t ii4Zt 5 ln-W.-lHl.il S ti'i'itU'i. !i!it": 'I'll' IV!' , ! ! si. I mllM' 3,4. "Li 'U - meot'of sbcM senfecs to rural areas is "artiScEJ. r 1 thrsk ths rnorenient will ccntius to be urbaniza- tion, and socMopsts wO have to go where the people are. TK!3 there is no dearth of applicants to the field, there h no tremendous surge either. Cut I don't know of any FhD.'s without jobs in recent years,' Crockett said. A 1970 surrey ofUNL graduates with psychology degrees earned in the ten previous years showed that 25 per cent were in social senices, 20 per cent in business, 20 per cent in the educational field and 35 per cent miscel laneous occupations, such as housewives, doctors or lawyers. Dr. Richard Diensthier, chairman of the UNL Psychology Dept. said that today more graduates would be found in social services and fewer in education. He said he suspects that in the future, about half the available jobs calling for a psychology specialization will be in social services mental health agencies, drag and alcohol treatment programs, etc He expects the needs of business and industry for psychologists to stay at the current level and the education market to get tighter. The Psychology Dept. does not have a master s degree program, but offers training for a PhJX The Educational : Psychology Dept. does offer a master's degree. AI! FhD.'s from tins department hue gotten fobs m psychological areas, with very few private practices, Diensthier said, "but today yon are kss likely to get what you originally wanted J Diensthier said the traditional one-to-one therapisi patisit practice is being phasd out in favor of newer , therapeutic methods. Clinical psychology programs have -' been funded by the federal government in the psst, tst ' today funding must come from the state or community. Dieisibisr said thai as a major, psychology is . . . very -popular many more people want to be psychologists than there is room for m the gradate school. Fifteen years you cou!i do things with a IUL that yea now needafhlXfor." No foreseecib jsh prcttms for the tu3 admhi . stratsoa gradmte, at feast not one w&h a Esrster"! dege, sail Gary 2wcMissn, tssoefcte dean of the CcHsge cf Ismess minMrst fcn. 'The MILA. s the "tsotiest thicg gog, fee sa:3, erpecay tor canxers ana cocrpuicr And acccrdlr to one recent artkle, corpcraiionssesk gradstes from tdtsm universities because "they are net stuck up. The next 10 years belongs to the person with an undergradiate dspte in a specialized fkld and ... an : BdiLA., Schwendiman said. Some schools have consolidated business, hospital and educational administration. There will be more need for people with business training in the pubJx as well as private sector, he added. - Accounting is the most wide-open fkld cf all that the university offers, he sail. Demand is number one. There is a great need for women in all areas of business he said. Female enrcHment five years ago in CDA was 172; cow it is 494, ch'endlman sail. Schwezdizzzn sees a nrrjor chants in grsster participa tksn of workers in the deci)n-ma!dng processes of the economy. In Europe, workers sit on margent councils and beards of directors by fcgii!he mandate. Te haven't come to that yet in the US., but in the next decade I thrJk there vrZl be a bsaening cf cenfronta tioa between unions and management in the private sector, he said. There has alsray s been a shcrage cf man and weman pcx'sr a marketing, and this will continue, espedaTy in sales pesiccs. The demand fcr wemea is high and not jut as tclnim asymcre, sdJ ThZZ? llzVey, ticketing . Dept. chairman. The traditiond traveling solssnian may fade into party joke legend as the energy crisis forces companies to use telephones and nuil and call on customers kss often. Ey its nature, marketing relies heavily on human labor (truck drivers are included in marketing manpower counts), but in the future companies will do all they can to mechanize. Already some salespersons carry suitcase computer at home. Job conditions am expected to improve. Straight corn mission salaries wO disappear for an incentive pay on top of a salary base. International marketing will find new Saks jobs will demand more intelligence as the market er has to communicate with and understand needs of such industries as space and nuclear energy. Actuarial science students have a pleasant decision on gmduation what job to accept in which location. Students who spedalke hi actuarial science have the opportunity to accept positions in a number cf locations at high starting salaries, according to Prof. Cecil Eykerk, Actuarial Science Dept. dmmiaa. ' . " Eykerk surveyed 1976 graduates last April and found : that the average starting salary pail to the graduates -would be $ 14G3. Salaries offered rasgsd from a low of $11 ,750 to a high cf S16JC33 a year. The job-to-graduate ratio is srrtnrt 5 to l.Dykerk said. The largest number of jobs are found on the East Coast where most large insurance companies are. The UNL department is one of shout 20 in the " " country. - - National health care also may create new jobs if it is passed, Bykerk said. The future for speech and hearing clinicians is bright and according to David Hamnett, coordinator' lit, ' t ' mtifm r .ki iPijjl of off-campus clinical programs at the UNL clinic. Federal legislation in the past year directing public schools to provide special education for the handicapped has txfZE&A the need for speech and hearing therapists. Hamnett said he expects increases also in hospitals, nurs ing homes and public and university clinics. "This is a master's degree profession, Hamnett said, as a bachelors dsfee holder is cot certifshle or employ able by tl state.e st!2 offer the bachelor's at UNL,but we are heading mere and mere to wards a Gve-yesr Hisanstt said the imcge cf the profession has changed because the "speech teacher cf the past largely has been replaced by a taata ssfentlfia clr.icfn who, works wtdi A lot cf charges are occurring in architecture, corre sponding ta economis changat tt society, said 7. Cecil Ste "ard,dsan of the Architecture CcHrge. As con-, structioa costs skyrocket, architects will work more as teams to fcssaa the building tssft. - Architects axe mere cencerned with societal issues, the areas cf censervetsen, encrgy -sssig, etc Tbzzs will be morejehs, Steward said,but no explosion as a couple cf years ago. Jobs are fairly flexible in the South and IZZzzL V.'hether a Democratic cr Republican is elected r resi dent wi2 afTiict the prcf2ssbn,he said. With Carter there isLkdy to be mere building, as he is mere liberal with government sutsiditd prc-ects. Voung farmers taking over cwr-irshp, however, mast be better trained, he said. Agribusiness is growing and will continue to expand. . At the aradrmic level, there will be fewer jcbs. Regulation practices in chemicals, pollution and hnd use and pead&g legislation on hrgal aspects of sgriculture make things tougher, he said. Laws restricting water use allow less flexibility. Eut with proper management water availability for irrigstbn is no problem, he said. i J t J A Department cf Labor Occupational Projections bock states that employment eppcrtuniies for veterinar tens wi3 grow faster than the arerrge fcr all connected occupations, due to growth in the pet, livestock and poultry populations and expected expansions in veterin ary research. Veterinarians must be licensed to practice in al states, must have a D.VJIL degree and must pass state boards. With only 19 colleges of veterinary medicine hi the country, the competition for entrance is high. Vets may be employed in private practices, the federal government, state or local government agencies, colleges, medical schools, animal food companies, research labs and pharmaceutical companies. Graduates in forestry have doubled nationally in the last 10 years, said Mitchell D. FerriSI, chairman of the . Forestry Dept., making jobs available today to only the top half of classes from the country's 40 accredited schools. Forestry is as broad a field as agriculture, he said. The emphasis in the future, with the land base decreasing, will be on developing and marketing new products from the land. The federal Resource Planning Act of 1974 and new pcHurion laws are already affecting both private and public lands and changing the forestry profession, he said. He called these regulations "clouds on the horizon that could "make more jobs and at the same thne make them harder." . UNL has only a two-year pie-forestry program. The most dramatic change m jobs in criminal justice has been a rise in the percentage of women employed, said Robert Herbert, vice esrr.3-i cf the KU Crinfsailcs-v . itSseDept. Federal and local police departments hare put women , in cruiseis. In some circumstances women are round to handle things better than men. ? Another significant pattern is an increase of students going to law school, Holbert said. Jobs in criminal justice are tied closely to the economy. Most are fonded by local, state and federal governments, so if the economy tightens up, so does the job market. As jobs tighten, requirements go higher. There seems to be a squeeze cn graduates with bachelor's degrees if enough with master's degrees are available, Holhert said. One source of jobs is drying up as big cities "go broke", Holbert said. Of course the largest number of jobs is available hi cities, where the crime rate is higher. "Every projection Tve seen indicates a very high demand for engineers in the future, said Lyle E. Young, associate dean of the College cf Engineering and Technol ogy. Most jobs wiH be based on todays yet unsolved ems. The energy crisis has caused the need for different nsoes of transportation and ways cf harnessing new energyHEudeaT,gecthermal,ctc. . "The day when one person can ride down the highway by himself ei a 1 ,CGQ4h. car wO disappear, he said. -We1 depend more and more cn mass transit systems.' The world food crisis also will generate jcJs Young said. Ergmesrs will be workmg cn new irrigation systems, ways to extract edible proteins from plants to replace miliar vi-ituA- mm mw&kmm fiw bf 4 Wj VxjN - . - " . . ... The jch picture is strorg fcr all branches cf engSieer "fcg. Starting salaries are around S 1 ,1C3 a month; this is Prospects o the next three to fouryess aregd far WaMfom mAm'mAm Mm WWifcHi k, At i Jks m-MriMfaiiV Imrwfr. fiiVtf m Am r James OTLslon, Last year there was a fairly tight job market fcr teach- f fMftfc f- TV f There is a very strong move back to f; ing, and it will continue in the next four to five yean. according to CcH:ge of Agriculture Dean T.E. Hextung, probably wO dsvelep and create o addltl; Ne federal leIetica thsl would rec trein in h5h seiioch end thet -culi crette a r.::d fee The traditional job opportunity fcr students cf p LS sophy is m the academic arees of teaching and resserch . on the university and community ccH:ge level, according to Robert Audi, chairmen of the Philosophy Dept. This area provides tough competition.