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By Jeremy Da Rosa on November 26th, 2007

So while I was tooling around online the other day, I found this pretty interesting site which had been "dugg" on digg.com.

As I did some investigating, I was happy to find scads of government websites that can be really helpful for school or research (US National Archives, CIA World Factbook, FedStats.gov). There is also earthquake info, and my personal favorite, the Occupational Outlook Handbook.

The Occupational Outlook Handbook has average pay scales for an amazing array of careers (hundreds of them listed alphabetically), job search tips, job market info, and a bunch of other resources that I couldn’t even remember because my brain would have exploded. Basically, there's just a huge pile of awesome resources for anyone who wants to find more information about whatever occupational field they are interested in.

Anyway, I want to keep this short, so check out those links for some helpful government pages. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving with friends and family. We're thankful for websites like those above (and for readers like you).

- Jeremy

Lauren

These sites are really cool! The Occupational Outlook Handbook takes a different approach than www.salary.com or www.collegegrad.com and provides some really good information on a wide range of careers. I didn't know the government put these together -- why don't they show us these things in college??

by Lauren on November 30, 2007
Randy

because then I would've been an engineer instead of a video editor.

by Randy on November 30, 2007
Steve

Plus, they'd have more trouble taking so much money from you if they told you how long it would take it to pay it all back.

by Steve on November 30, 2007

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