America's top jobs

Not only is my job (software engineer) on the list of top jobs published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, it was the highest-paid one that CNN.com listed.

These are apparently jobs where the applicants and employees have the edge, not employers. This is great news, since both my husband and I are I.T. professionals, and he has 15 years of solid experience in the field. Hopefully this will mean that we'll have little-to-no trouble finding work when we arrive in Austin, and we'll make fantastic money to boot. The median salary listed for software engineers was $75,000 a year. That's $150,000 a year between the two of us if we make the median salary. We could make more. Even if we made less, we'd still be pretty damned comfortable.

I don't ask for much out of life. I like spending time with friends and family; I want a nice medium-sized house in a leafy suburb with a nice garden, 2 cars in the driveway, a couple of kids playing in the yard, and a decent career with good job security. So...looks like my career choice has yet again been validated. Hooray!

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