New Jobs for the New Century
Jesse Berst, Editorial Director
ZDNet AnchorDesk
July 06, 1999
 
Do you remember Popular Mechanics and Popular Science from  
the 50s and 60s? They were forever predicting future careers  
such as "rocket-car engineer" or "rotocoptor designer." 
 
The rise of the Internet has created careers even the  
wackos at those magazines could not have predicted. For  
instance, scope out these five next century career options: 
 
Broadband Network Installer: I've been telling you about  
the impending move to broadband networks. Click for more.  
Companies like TCI are looking for people with the skills  
to build these high-speed data services.  
 
Disaster Recovery Specialist: No, you won't be filling  
sandbags along Midwest rivers. With recent computer virus  
attacks shutting down companies for hours or even days,  
this position will be a necessity.  Click for more. 
 
Piracy Investigator: Pirates are a major enemy to software  
companies like Microsoft. Investigators will scour the  
globe to find and shut down counterfeit operations. Click  
for more. 
 
Interactive TV Programmers: Interactive TV will be a reality  
-- really, it will -- and companies like WebTV are even  
now looking for people who can integrate Web content and  
ecommerce into entertaining TV programs. Click for more. 
 
Professional Surfers: Internet portal and ecommerce companies  
need fulltime Web riders to keep search engines up to  
date both domestically and internationally. Click for  
more.