Information Technology (IT) and Health Care jobs are the fastest growing jobs overall in the state of Wisconsin at this time, and it looks like they will continue to increase in numbers of available job openings through 2014. In fact, the Top 19 jobs out of the Top 25 Jobs in Wisconsin are all Health Care or IT positions.

Three more of the Top 25 are Health Care jobs and the remaining three are Animal Breeders, Athletic Trainers, and Employment/Recruiting/Job Placement specialist.

Overall, 17 of the Top 25 are in Health Care and 5 are in IT professions.

The single occupation that will open up the most jobs is Registered Nursing, with over 64,000 jobs to be available between 2004 - 2014. More men and women alike are entering the nursing professions and becoming quite successful. The average wage for an RN can go as high as $40+/hr. and perhaps higher for private duty care.

Many training and teaching hospitals will hire individuals in various positions and furnish their tuition for nursing school as part of the compensation package, with time off from work provided to attend classes, and many other benefits. Nursing is a lucatrive field. There is also often the option to work 2, 12-hour weekend days and have that equal a 40-hour work week. So, nursing is becoming more attractive to more people as a career.

NOTE: One of my favorite friends became an RN, married another RN, and he and wife also become EMTs and licensed massage therapists. They were both busy and happy with their Health Care careers, and they were able to work together much of the time.

As the American population ages overall, there will be increasing numbers of Health Care careers becoming available and being "invented" because of technology advances. One of these is the growing field of physical therapists and physical therapy assistants and P.T. aides. More people are able to leave the house after being injured.now, because of the skills these professional use for their therapy, and because of new devices and mobility aids that have been developed. IT is highly publicized that more soldiers are surviving the Iraq War - as amputees and such - than in previous wars. Technology is forced to come up with new solutions to make life productive and gratifying for them.

Major Job Search Sites for Wisconsin

• WORKnet: http://worknet.wisconsin.gov/worknet/
• Craigslist (Wisconsin): http://geo.craigslist.org/iso/us/wi
• Wisonsin Jobs: http://www.wisconsinjobnetwork.com/
• Job Hunt, Wisconsin: http://www.job-hunt.org/jobs/wisconsin.shtml
• Milwaukee Jobs: http://www.milwaukeejobs.com/

TOP NURSING SCHOOLS for the RN or BSN degrees:

• Marquette University - College of Nursing - Milwaukee
• University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - College of Nursing - Milwaukee
• Alverno College - Milwaukee
• Bellin College of Nursing - Green Bay
• Cardinal Stritch University - College of Nursing - Milwaukee
• Chamberlain College of Nursing - Online RN to BSN Program
• Columbia College of Nursing - Mount Mary College - Milwaukee
• Concordia University Wisconsin - Department of Nursing - Mequon
• Edgewood College - Nursing Department - School of Nursing - Madison
• Marian College of Fond du Lac - Nursing Studies Division - Fond du Lac
• MSOE - School of Nursing - Milwaukee
• University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire - School of Nursing - Eau Claire, Madison, and Oshkosh
• Viterbo University - School of Nursing - La Crosse

Note: All of these schools have websites for full information. Some of them offer distance learning opportuntites as well as classroom based learning.

Liberace

Before he had the flamboyant clothing like Elton John, only moreso, Liberace wore a black tuxedo on "The Liberace Show." I used to get up from bed at night as a small child and sneak behind a large chair in the living room to watch him play the piano.

Georgia O'Keefe

Painter of the giant-flower potraits.

Tom Snyder

Radio and TV host. I used to watch his sow.

Gene Wilder

I love this actor in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Author Roald Dahl didn't care much for the movie of his book, though.

Frank Lloyd Wright - Most famous architect in Ameica.I have read a biobraphical novel of him: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan that pieces together the relationship he had with the intellectual wife of one of his clents during the beggining of women's suffrage fights in the US. It is an astounding book. I have visited his Falling Water house/project in Pennsylvania and know that he was an astounding man as well. Mamah Borthwick Cheny, the client's wife, was a fascinating woman in her own right.