Nothing says “job security” like working in an industry that everyone needs regardless of their money situation. Healthcare has not only avoided the dreaded recession, it has been the focus of US government initiatives to increase its size and scope.

A recent study shows that there may be over 500,000 additional nurse positions available by 2018, over twice as much as the second highest growing profession (accountants and auditors). As long as there’s sickness, there’s always going to be a need for people to make us better.

This infographic by our friends at Course Hero breaks down medical as well as other arenas and compares the differences between college graduates and those who enter the workforce early. Common sense (and our mothers) tells us that getting a college degree makes sense, but just as there will always be nurses, there will always be statistics telling us to go to school.

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Tunisia is already yesterday’s news, but the effects will be felt for months and years. It isn’t just in the small country itself, but rather the effects that the successful regime-change will have on the area in general.

This graphic by The Visual News puts it nicely into perspective for us as this tumultuous landscape of political upheaval that has reigned as a state of being in the region for centuries appears to be hitting a tipping point fueled by both technological advances (particularly in communication) as well as the increasing boldness of the people who are now more empowered than ever before.

What will the region look like in 10 years? At this point, nobody can be sure what the region will look like by the end of the year.

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President Obama is perhaps the most famous executive addicted to his Blackberry, but there’s someone who has stumped RIM’s creators or the Blackberry.  After 25 years catering to high demand industries and 3 years going after the general public, RIM seems to have missed a major demographic.

“Are you going to make a phone more for kids so that my Mom will let me get one?”

At Tuesday’s shareholders’ meeting in Toronto, a child in the audience left RIM’s Co-Chiefs stumbling for a proper response to the simple question.

Mike Lazaridis, after pausing uncomfortably to find the right response, said, “There’s lots of opportunity and, you know, if the current BlackBerries aren’t acceptable to your mother, hopefully the next ones will.”

There’s an old joke where a father asks his young child to program the VCR. In 2009, the VCR is (excuse the pun) childs’ play for today’s PSP-savvy, DSi-armed youth. Those who think that children couldn’t operate a Blackberry are naive.  Chances are, a 10-yr old can use features that baffle many corporate CEOs.

It’s a humorous situation that happened at the stockholders’ meeting but it shouldn’t be dismissed. Children of just about any age can conceivably be a market for the exponentially-growing Smartphone industry. Could there be an “iPhone Jr” or “Blackberry YE” (Youth Edition) coming in the future? Perhaps this could be the entry for Nintendo to get into the mobile phone market while bolstering handheld gaming sales.

Thanks to one child, we’ll see the Smartphones for kids by 2011. You heard it here first.

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