Is The "american Plan" Changing?

The least stressful job for Americans is professor

. That was the finding of Careercast's 2013 assessment. Among the criteria used by the online job site for its ranking of 200 jobs were travel, job outlook, deadlines, working in the public eye, competiveness, physical demands, environmental conditions, hazards and lives at risk. The second least stressful job is seamstress/tailor followed by medical records technician, jeweler and medical laboratory technician. The most stressful job is enlisted military personnel followed by military general, firefighter, commercial pilot and public relations executive. Of course, not having a job might be the most stressful of all.

Americans are staying at their jobs longer. Research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute showed in 2012 the median time people were on their jobs was 5.4 years. In 1983 it was 5 years. The difference between men and women's job tenure has disappeared. Men's median tenure dropped from 5.9 years in 1983 to 5.5 years in 2012. Women's median tenure increased from 4.2 years to 5.4 years. But the one-job career being the norm in the past is a myth. Twenty percent of workers aged 60-64 have been at their job for 25 years - only a 3% difference since 1983. Maybe we haven't been "worked over" by the economy.

The reading habits of Americans are changing. The Pew Internet Research Center surveyed 2,252 people aged 16 and older. The number of Americans owning an e-book device increased from 18% in 2011 to 33% in 2012, but the number of American reading e-books only increased from 16% to 23%. While e-book readership went up, reading traditional books went down - from 72% to 67%; and the percentage of Americans reading any kind of book went down from 78% to 75%. Should this information make us "read between the lines"?

Fifty-six percent of Americans believe in love at first sight. That's according to a 2013 Vanity Fair/60 Minutes poll surveying 1,100 adults nationwide about love. Sixty-six percent think it's easier to say "It's over" than to say "I love you". Ninety percent think good sex is important in a successful relationship. Twenty-eight percent think "for better or for worse" is the hardest marriage vow to keep; 26% think it is "to be faithful", 17% think "in sickness and in health" and 15% think "for richer or poorer". Considering this was a telephone poll, some of the responses might be "called into question".

by: Knight Pierce Hirst

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