The job market has changed drastically in the 30 years that CareerCast has been evaluating jobs, with some positions threatened by market changes that no one could have predicted. (Photo: Shutterstock)

College degrees notwithstanding, the jobs market is getting tougher in other ways than just finding a job. There's the quality of the job itself—a combination of pay, benefits, type of work and level of stress—as well as other factors such as hours and interaction with the public, that combine to make it a good job or a bad one. And don't forget the potential for job growth (or obsolescence).

In CareerCast's 2018 Jobs Rated report, there are 20 new job titles that weren't evaluated last year, all from health care and technology fields including medicine, software and information security. And those three career paths alone are predicted to grow more than 30 percent each by 2026, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Five of the report's 10 best jobs, says the report, are either based on technology or directly tied to it.

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Marlene Satter

Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.

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