Seventy-six percent of primary doctors in the U.S. feel ‘overextended and overworked”. According to a November 2008 survey done by the Physicians’ Foundation, 11% of doctors intend to retire, 13% intend to get out of active patient care, 20% intend to cut back on patients and 10% intend to work part-time. In addition to the extra paperwork required in working with health care plans, 78% of the 12,000 survey participants complained that there weren’t enough primary doctors. Unfortunately, 60% also said that they wouldn’t recommend medicine as a career. Obviously, doctors are getting sick of doctoring.

When gas was $4 a gallon, being a gas station owner seemed like a good job. That’s because most people don’t know the profit margin remains about 23 cents a gallon regardless of the price of gas. When gas prices are high, customers not only buy less gas, they buy less merchandise – and that’s where the real profit is. Tobacco products are the most profitable. Food products – chips, candy and sandwiches – are second. In fact, fresh food is an emerging trend in the industry with sales having doubled in two years. At gas stations human fuel is the moneymaker.

In the 1930′s and 40′s refrigerators, washing machines and dryers were moneymakers. One-quarter of those appliances made in the U.S. were made in Iowa. Iowa was home to both Amana and Maytag – two of the world’s biggest appliance manufacturers. Then came foreign competition. Amana and Maytag were bought out and Iowa lost one-fifth of its factory jobs in the past decade. The good news is new industry has moved into the state – alternative energy. Former appliance workers are now making wind turbine blades. Others are working in a plant that turns methane from cow manure into electricity. Iowans are getting in on jobs hard to outsource.

Of course, it’s not just Americans who are losing jobs in a recession. Mexico’s National Statistics and Geography Institute reported that 8 in 1,000 Mexicans emigrated from Mexico between February and May 2008. That’s a 42% drop from the same period in 2006. In 2007, 814,000 “left to live abroad”, compared with 1.2 million in 2006. The U.S. Border Patrol has also reported a drop in the apprehension of illegal immigrants. Because fewer Mexicans are immigrating to the U.S., it seems fewer of “the jobs Americans won’t do” are going to be done or they’ll be done by Americans.

Knight Pierce Hirst takes a second look at what makes life interesting and it takes only second at http://knightwatch.typepad.com

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