One
of the biggest job stresses has to fight with competitors
and coworkers for clients, commissions, and recognition.
Rather than focusing
on your own work, highly competitive fields force you to be constantly aware of
what everyone else is doing.
Competition is
particularly acute in visible, hard-to-break-into industries like entertainment
and sports, jobs that offer lucrative payouts to top performers, and coveted
positions with only a limited number of spots.
Sports and talent
agents, for example, constantly fight over a small number of high-profile
clients. Poets and writers constantly fight to get published and have their
work seen. And athletes compete on a daily basis as their job.
Based on data from
the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a U.S. Department of Labor
database full of detailed information on occupations, below are the 10
most competitive jobs in America. The ranking measures the extent that the
job "requires the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive
pressures."
Each job is scored
on a scale of zero to 100, with a score above 75 denoting a job that's
extremely competitive:
Competitiveness score: 95
3. Athletes and Sports Competitors
Competitiveness score: 94
4. Sales Agents, Securities and Commodities: 93
Competitiveness score: 93
5. Sound Engineering Technicians
Competitiveness score: 89
6. Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance
Competitiveness score: 88
7. Music Composers and Arrangers
Competitiveness score: 88
8. Real Estate Sales Agents
Competitiveness score: 88
9. Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes
Competitiveness score: 85
10. Coaches and Scouts
Competitiveness score: 87
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