Top 10 Hot Jobs in Baton Rouge - Videos & Recipes

Baton Rouge sits in the parish (equivalent to a county) of East Baton Rough in the southeastern part of the state and not far from New Orleans. Thsi is Area 2 on the map to the lower right.

This part of Louisiana is one of the 22 parishes disignated in1960 as Acadiana, home of the Acadian people that were driven from Nova Scotia (Acadie) long before Louisiana was a state. The Acadians became known as Cajuns and became well known for their cuisine, which is featured in books, television cooking shows, state fair demonstrations, restaurants from diners to full service establishments, and homes around the country.

CAJUN - A person born/living alongside the bayous, marshes, and prairies of southern Louisiana (Acadiana) -- Devoted to gumbo, boudin, sauce piquante, crawfish boils, and jambalaya; dedicated to the fais-do-do, French music, hard work, and "Let the good times roll": Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!

The Times of Acadiana- The weekly newspaper of the Acadiana parishes.

The Greater Baton Rouge Area has has experienced economic growth and openings of more new jobs than any other area of Louisiana except the Houma region through the first decade of the 21st century. This is even after Hurricane Katrina and the wide ranging damage that storm did in 2005.

The area has grown as such a rate that a new highway system has become imperative for channeling congested traffic. This is known as the Baton Rouge Loop project

The Top 10 Fastest growing Jobs in Baton Rouge and the surrounding parish are the following:

1. Ship's Engineers
2. Dental, Physician's, and Medical Assistants; Dental Hygenists
3. Technical Writers
4. Medical Sonographers
5. Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Motion Picture- The Film Industry is growing quickly, because of the work done by Celtic Media Centre.
6. Home Health Aides (HHAs)
7. Occupational & Phsyical Therapists
8. Environmental Engineers
9. Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics
10. Computer Software Applications Engineers

The next fastest growing jobs comprise this list of 10 occupations:

• Captais, Mates & Pilots for Water Vessels
• Respiratory Therapists
• Producers and Directors - denotes the growing Film Industry.
• Physical Therapy Aides
• Mental Health Counselors
• EMT Attendants and Ambulance Drivers
• Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks
• Interpreters and Translators
• Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers
• Petroleum Pump System Operators & Related Occuations -openings created by the rise in oil drilling and alternative energy projects.

• Baton Rouge Community College - BRCC offers a vareity of programs with connections to community internships and employment.
• Evangel Christian University of America - located in Monroe, Louisiana
• Louisiana Delta Community College - in West Monroe LA.
• Louisiana State University
• Louisiana Community and Technical College System
• Our Lady of the Lake College
• Southeastern Louisiana University - located in nearby Hammond LA.
• Southern University System
• University of Louisiana - also in Monroe LA.

The largest employes in the Barton Rouge area are head up by the local government, Baton Rouge being the county seat of the parish.

• Louisiana State Government - includes the state penetentiary.
• Baton Rouge City Parish Government
• East Baton Rouge Parish School Board
• Louisiana State University
• Southern University
• Baton Rouge General Medical Center
• Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center
• Earl K. Long Memorial Hospital
• Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Treatment Center
• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• BASF Wyandotte Corporation - Chemicals
• Dow Chemical Company
• Exxon companies
• Georgia Gulf Corporation
• Turner Industries - Construction and Drilling

The Jambalaya Shoppe

9380 Old Hammond Hwy, Baton Rouge, LA 70809 · 225-214-3555

Traditional foods include: Gumbos, Red and White Beans, Crawfish Pies

Parrains

3225 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808 · 225-381-9922

Traditional seafoods - Catfish, Shrimp Stew, many more lunch and dinnner specials.

Boutin's Cajun Restaurant

8322 Bluebonnet Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70810 · 225-819-9862

Cabin

Hwy 44 and Hwy 22, Burnside, LA 70738 · 225-473-3007

- This is set inthe old slave home on the famous Monroe Plantation. All regional favorites are served.

• On Hub Pages: Native American Nations of the SE USA
• Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana
• Tunica-Biloxi Tribe
• Jena Band of Choctaw
• Choushatta Tribe

Baton Rouge and it immediate area were home to the fur nations of indigenous peoples listed above at least 8000+ years ago and likely a few thousand before. When foreign settlers arrived, Baton Rouge endured a French period of istory (1699-1763), a British Period (1763-1779) a Spanish period (1779-1810), and the era of The Republic of West Florida (1810) before the territory became the state of Louisiana.

The Acadians also settled in the Baton Rouge area,coming all the way from Nova Scotia. History and recipes are contained in the following links:

• The Acadians - Cajun Easter Foods, Recipes & History
• Cajun Recipes - Nova Scotia to Acadiana
• Native American Harvest Feasts Before Thanksgiving
• Native American Nations Around the World

Baton Rouge Houses of Worship provides a links to an abundance of places of worship for many faiths.

The humorous film clip below is from one of the area's reknowned evangelists, Jesse Duplantis, who also publishes a cookbook. He's pretty funny at times and is a great entertainer. He came to our church one summer and performed a medley of regional cajun and blues numbers before preaching, and did a spot on impression of Louis Armstrong.