Average salaries by job title

Allow me to thank a regular reader of this blog who pointed me to this list of average salaries in the United States by occupation. We journalist types are stuck there at Number 52, right behind financial examiners and ahead of logisticians.

My advice to young journalists is to use this job to develop some contacts, expertise and real skills and then to find another career before your kids reach middle school age. I am one of the lucky few who has survived this business into middle age with my ego mostly intact.

Young reporters have so many more opportunities today than they did when I was young. At times I envy them. Who knows, if I had made different choices, every weeknight at 8 p.m., Fox News would air "The Ross Factor."

If I had made some other choices, I could be one of those sports personalities on ESPN who gets paid a lot for yelling at my coworkers for how stupid they are for not agreeing with me 100 percent.

My wife tells me I'm better off where I am.