If you’re in the mood for a new career path and have prior experience in either assembly or architecture, why not consider architectural design? Have you considered working in Rhode Island? Rhode Island has long held the nickname of “Little Rhody”, though the state has officially adopted the nickname of “the Ocean State”, as nearly one tenth of Rhode Island’s inland area is covered by salt water, and no part of the state is more than a thirty-minute drive from the water’s edge. Coming a long way in design and function over the years, architecture has certainly come a long way and continues to grow and expand. As with most industries and fields, technology has truly taken the reigns and opened the door to a whole new world of possibilities based on the use of computers. You can be a part of this emerging field!

Specially-developed architectural software, along with CAD programs, are becoming mainstream in both education and in the workplace, as it concerns Architecture jobs and Assembly jobs. Since the field is growing so rapidly, so is the number of companies looking for skilled workers. What kind of outlook does the market hold for assembly jobs and architecture jobs? The market actually looks great! There are a lot of technological advances, which might lead some people to think that assembly jobs in particular will just be done by robots, but assembly lines will always require skilled operators. In addition to the necessity for humans to operate the programs, there has also been a lot of opportunity opening up in the way of engineering and design to develop new programs and improve the existing ones that are being used.

If you are living in or moving to the south, employers in South Carolina rely on professionals in all different facets of industries to perform architecture jobs and assembly jobs. Many of these are available in South Carolina, especially for recent college graduates- the good news is that the demand is ongoing. Most employers are willing to train workers into new development and design positions, given some prior drafting or assembly line experience. You’ll need to get up to speed on your computer skills, but your industry experience will be invaluable as well. If you’re looking to take your career to new heights as a member of the manufacturing or assembly/production field, consider getting some basic training in computer design and architecture software- you’ll be glad you did! Come and work on the East Coast, you’ll love what Rhode Island has to offer!!

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the period August to October 2008, 651,000 workers across the United States lost their work. This drastic drop has resulted in 10.1 million Americans with no jobs! Of course, you should not be surprised about these figures considering that the mighty United States is as vulnerable to the global financial crisis as the smallest of Asian, African and European nations.

If you are in one of these jobs, which the University of Chicago found to be the most satisfying in its study entitled “Job Satisfaction in the United States”, you probably will want to hang on to it as long as you can, economic downturn or no downturn. Besides, parking your butt in the office chair for pay is definitely better than parking your bottom at home scraping bottom.

#1: Clergy

Well, you probably will be happy and satisfied when you are part of the religious clergy simply because you have to be! Seriously speaking, when you are selling happiness of the spiritual kind on both on the temporal and eternal planes, you practice what you preach.

Of course, the fact that as a clergy, you are in the position to help people beyond the needs of their wallets’ contents has a great deal to do with being happy on the job. Helping your fellowman attain inner peace and happiness, after all, is as important as filling the stomach and the bank account.

#2: Physical Therapists

If you are a physical therapist, your basic salary and benefits probably are part of your job satisfaction rating. The emphasis is on “part” as satisfaction cannot be measured in terms of the amount of money in your cash clip wallets, in your bank account and in your investment portfolios.

Your greatest satisfaction could come from helping people get back on their feet again, literally. Your personal encouragement coupled with your professional competence is a potent medicine for repairing broken spirits and broken bodies, all while earning money. Definitely cause to be satisfied, don’t you think?

#3 Firefighters

For all its danger, being a firefighter is satisfying because you get to help people in dangerous situations. And, oh throw in a little kitty, a little boy, and a little lady in distress and you just about round up the happy scenario.

And who can forget the heroic firefighters of the New York City Fire Department during the aftermath of the September 11 attacks? It is a very dangerous job, indeed, but one that brings indescribable happiness to firefighters in America, a fact that we should be thankful for.

These jobs might not be suitable for the ostentatious and pretentious kind of desk business card holder but you cannot deny that for the price of one, you get two – job satisfaction and professional happiness! Not bad for a trade-off.

I wrote this article originally for Helium.

A long-simmering dispute over the origins of Facebook is set to erupt later this month at a federal court hearing about whether Mark Zuckerberg, the young web mogul now being feted by media honchos, stole the original code for his booming social network from three Harvard classmates.

The lawsuit, filed by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accuses Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 23-year-old C.E.O, of stealing the source code, design, and business plan for Facebook in 2003 when he briefly worked in the Harvard dorms as a programmer for their own fledgling social-networking site, now known as ConnectU.

The plaintiffs have demanded that Facebook be shut down and that full control of the site, and its profits, be turned over to them. The hearing comes just as Facebook is exploding into the social networking stratosphere and Zuckerberg is the toast – in absentia – of this week’s elite media ball at the annual Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Indeed, there is vastly more money at stake now than when the dispute began in 2004. Facebook, which spurned Yahoo’s $1 billion buyout offer last fall, is now thought to be worth at least double that. (The latest rumor is that Microsoft is eyeing the site for $6 billion.)