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Job Search is a career planning tool. It's purpose is to help the average American raise their income as much, as quickly, and as cheaply as possible, using ongoing education as their primary and best investment strategy.

The idea behind Job Search is to assist the average American plan a series of career changes, using ongoing adult education, with the primary goal of maximizing realized income.

The greatest investment the average American can make in terms of ROI is in their own career. It's also fairly safe, since higher income Americans tend to be far less affected by economic downturn than low income Americans, or the stock market for that matter. Your career and education is also subject to a great deal of protection and subsidy from our government.

How you use Job Search is up to you, but I'd encourage you to consider the following:

• There's a lot of meaningful and rewarding jobs that you may never have considered. Don't ignore any options just because you've never imagined yourself in a particular line of work.
• It's great if you're satisfied with your current job, but never stop striving to improve your position financially. That might mean addressing shortcomings in your day to day work, or getting new certifications and professional development, or it might mean a shift in careers.
• Job Search is a FIRST STEP in career planning. It's very possible that, for a given occupation, education requirements and pay may be more or less in your area than what is listed on this site, especially when you consider the needs of specific employers. Make sure you do additional research online and by speaking to people who already have your chosen occupation in the city you live in. You'd be surprised how eager many people are to discuss their work
• Be flexible! The job market is enormous, complex, and constantly changing. Re-examining your career plan every year or so might reveal opportunities you might've missed otherwise.

Start by pressing Search in the top right of the screen. From the Search page, enter the major city you live closest to, or plan on living close to in the future. Enter the maximum level of education you would like to see results for. It might make sense to search through several different levels for use in different stages of your career plan.

Once you have the options you want selected, you can begin reviewing occupations. Pressing "Detail" for any occupation will open up a new tab in your browser that you can review later, so don't hesitate to click on any occupation that interests you and continue your search. By clicking on the red X at the top right of an occupation, you can exclude that occupation from future searches, either because you're not interested in that occupation or you've already opened its detail page. You can reverse the exclusion later, so don't hesitate.

Once you have a few occupations you want to research further, it's time to move on to the Detail page.

On the detail page you'll find a link to O*Net. O*Net is a user-friendly online database sponsored by the US Department of Labor, which you can use to research your chosen occupation further. Near the bottom of the O*Net resource page, you'll find information on pay and working conditions, as well as links to different resources which assist in transitioning into your new job. I strongly suggest paying close attention to these links, as they might allow you to enter your occupation far quicker and more cheaply than you'd originally planned.

Also on the Detail page is a list of accredited educational institutions in your state (and programs which are conducting entirely online), ordered by in-state tuition cost. For the overwhelming majority of fields of study, WHAT you study has a far greater impact on your future pay than WHERE you study. When you're thinking about education in your career planning phase, find out what credentials you need to get your job and gather a list of institutions that offer those credentials. When you're choosing between those institutions, favor price over prestige.

Business Search is a tool to help motivated amateur entrepreneurs choose to start business in an industry they are most likely to succeed in.

I've found there's a shockingly small amount of data about which industries are most profitable and (relatively) easy to succeed in, partially because entrepreneurs have good reason to misrepresent the ease and profitability of their work. For successful industries, spreading knowledge of opportunity would almost certainly lead to increased competition and greater scrutiny by society. For low-profit industries, greater knowledge of a lack of profitability would make the businesses themselves less valuable to potential buyers and might even reflect poorly on the entrepreneurs involved. It's unsurprising, then, that a lot of the 'information' you'll find on the subject is:

• highly anecdotal
• full of trite sentimentality
• shares information selectively to draw small entrepreneurs into businesses that directly benefit the source of information

That in mind, I've broken the question of which business-type is best for an amateur into two sub-questions.

One, 'which industries are most stable?' I've decided to define 'stability' as 'survivability.' Since most Americans have little money stored away, and because many individual businesses experience a period of unprofitability after they begin, and because I intend for this data to be used by rank amateurs, it's important to direct small entrepreneurs to industries that can generally weather periods of chaos and uncertainty. To that end, industries in the Business Search are ordered firstly by the age of the average firm observed. The idea is that firms in less stable industries will generally be younger, since a relatively large portion of businesses shutter during times of economic tumult, leaving behind a small number of older hyper-competent businesses and a greater number of young startups which were formed after crisis subsided.

Two, 'which industries are least centralized around a small number of large firms? After average age, the industries in Business Search are ordered by the number of active firms observed in each industry. The idea is that industries with a large numbers of active firms have some foible that prevents large businesses from out competing the smaller ones. For instance, the greatest Cement Mason in the world will never drive all his competitors out of business. It's inconceivable, since his work requires his physical presence at all times. The same is not true of other types of entrepreneurs, such as Automotive Manufacturing CEOs, who are able to add a great deal of value to their businesses without physically interacting with their production lines. The first example is obviously ideal for amateur entrepreneurs, who will begin at a skill disadvantage to their competition.

I have a large backlog of books, since I've always read very slowly and don't have a lot of time to read in the first place.

In order to get through my backlog of books, I created a program that converted images of my books to text using an opensource ocr (Optical Character Recognition) machine learning program called Tesseract, then converting the text files to mp3s using an opensource text-to-speech program called Festival.

The purpose of this program is to help prospective entrepreneurs with market research, and to identify niche societal needs they may not have considered. It uses an local opensource LLM (Large Language Model), manipulated through an API. For each step of the program's procedure, the llm is prompted for data, then the data is formatted by a custom agent driven by that same llm. The formatted data can then be manipulated programmatically to be used in later steps.

The program begins with the user providing a broad topic the user would like to be more knowledgable about. The program then breaks down the topic into subtopics. The program identifies problems and proposed solutions associated with each subtopic. This program is also intended to give a brief primer on each topic and information that assist with business planning. Specifically, the program should give several examples of existing consumers for a given subtopic and a range of possible uses. That way, users won't be stuck with a single customer who can dictate terms.

Special thanks to the BLS and US Department of Labor, the US Department of Education, and the Census Bureau who provided the information needed to serve you better.

Special thanks to the Better Business Bureau for providing invaluable insight into the American economy and for working to increase marketplace trust thoughout America and around the world.

Special thanks to Google for providing the Material Design Icons, used throughout this site.