Well, yes, it turns out there is. A lumberjack for one. Apologies

Well, yes, it turns out there is. A lumberjack for one. Apologies to Monty Python, but no, being a lumberjack is not OK.

CareerCast today unveiled its 2014 Jobs Rated report, and, as you can imagine, we’re pretty darn happy here at Seattle Weekly after learning that being a newspaper reporter is at least better than working as a lumberjack. That’s right, a logger finished last at No. 200, while we journalists moved up – to 199.

“When I was a young boy, I dreamed of being a journalist, but I knew dreams for that kind of work were about the 199th best I could do,” said Weekly staff writer Matt Driscoll. “So I’m not surprised.

“I just thank god I’m not a lumberjack.”

Finishing in the bottom 10 were:

191. Corrections officer

192. Firefighter

193. Garbage collector

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194. Flight attendant

195. Head cook

196. Broadcaster

197. Taxi driver

198. Enlisted military personnel

199. Newspaper reporter

200. Lumberjack

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates a 9 percent drop in logging positions by 2022, and a 13 percent decline in reporters.

CareerCast Top Ten Jobs:

Mathematician; tenured university professor; statistician; actuary; audiologist; dental hygienist; software engineer; computer systems analyst; occupational therapist; and speech pathologist.