Office Machine Operator:
10-year growth projection: –10.2 percent
Typical education: High school diploma or equivalent
Stress score: 66.0
According to BLS report, office and administrative support occupations are expected to grow by 6.8 percent, but several positions that require less skill and training have landed on the bottom of the job rankings list. This suggests that the future of this job looks uncertain and bleak in terms of growth. Office machine operators, who handle photocopying, scanning, shredding and other similar tasks, are among the unlucky ones because employment prospects for office machine operators don’t look pleasing as it was before. In fact the job field is affected by the increasing use of newer technologies like computers, office automation and consolidation of clerical tasks.
"As more and more paper documents are replaced by electronic documents, these tasks lose importance and the workers who do them are less necessary," exclaimed career expert Shatkin.