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September 5, 2008


Best Places to Begin Life as a Drone

Every year BusinessWeek apparently puts out a list of the Top 50 Best Places To Launch A Career. Here are the top 20 for 2008:

  1. Ernst & Young - Accounting
  2. Deloitte - Accounting
  3. PricewaterhouseCoopers - Accounting
  4. Goldman Sachs - Investment Banking
  5. KPMG - Accounting
  6. Marriott International - Hospitality
  7. Google - Internet
  8. Lockheed Martin - Manufacturing
  9. IBM - Technology
  10. JP Morgan - Investment Banking
  11. Teach for America - Government
  12. US State Department - Government
  13. Microsoft - Technology
  14. Target - Retailing
  15. Abbott Labs - Pharmaceuticals
  16. NASA - Government
  17. Boston Consulting - Consulting
  18. General Electric - Manufacturing
  19. Anheuser-Busch - Consumer Goods
  20. Norfolk Southern - Transportation

Target is an interesting choice. I wonder why they picked it over Wal-Mart?

This entry was posted on Friday, September 5th, 2008 at 10:59 am (utc+8) and is filed under Musings.

6 Responses to “Best Places to Begin Life as a Drone”

  1. ToddinFL said:
    September 5th, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    #19 wouldn’t be too bad if they allowed one to taste the samples throughout the day.

  2. C. Maoxian said:
    September 5th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

    Todd: I think you’d get sick of it after a while even if you could drink for free on the job.

  3. Tom said:
    September 5th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    I’m surprised Booz Allen wasn’t on the list.

  4. DougM said:
    September 5th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    Target is perceived as better, because even the management is considered slave labor at Wal-Mart. Work ungodly hours for relatively low pay. At least at Target, the stores are a little more interesting to walk around in while you are working your 12-hour day (which starts at 3:00am).

  5. ToddinFL said:
    September 6th, 2008 at 5:56 am

    CM said:

    “I think you’d get sick of it after a while even if you could drink for free on the job.”

    Nah, if it were free it wouldn’t get old. It may require an early afternoon nap (3-4 hours max) for recuperation purposes, but it would never get old.

  6. Bill said:
    September 6th, 2008 at 9:23 am

    I worked at a brewery during the Summer when I was in college in the 70’s. Not only was the beer free but they stocked the breakroom coolers with it. I got so sick of beer I used to bring in a gallon of KoolAid to drink at work. Yeah, you tire of it soon enough. Took only a couple weeks for me.

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