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About Kaitlin Madden

Kaitlin Madden is a writer and blogger for CareerBuilder. She spends her time at work thinking and writing about work, and thus views her workday as one big social experiment. Prior to joining CareerBuilder, she was a freelance writer and spent some time working in fashion in New York City. She hates meetings and honors her love of shoes with a large collection under her desk. Kaitlin hails from Connecticut and graduated from Northeastern University in Boston with a degree in journalism.

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1. What Are the Least Common Jobs in America? - K96 FM: Wide Open Country says:

   January 31, 2012 at 12:45 pm

   [...] Standing out from the crowd doesn’t always require a booming voice or a wacky hairdo. Sometimes it can be as simple as what you do for a living. [...]
2. What Are the Least Common Jobs in America? - KSEN AM 1150 says:

   January 31, 2012 at 12:45 pm

   [...] Standing out from the crowd doesn’t always require a booming voice or a wacky hairdo. Sometimes it can be as simple as what you do for a living. [...]
3. What Are the Least Common Jobs in America? - 94.5 KATS says:

   January 31, 2012 at 2:06 pm

   [...] Standing out from the crowd doesn’t always require a booming voice or a wacky hairdo. Sometimes it can be as simple as what you do for a living. [...]
4. What Are the Least Common Jobs in America? | Mix 93.1 says:

   January 31, 2012 at 7:03 pm

   [...] Standing out from the crowd doesn’t always require a booming voice or a wacky hairdo. Sometimes it can be as simple as what you do for a living. [...]
5. What Are the Least Common Jobs in America? - AM 1240 KLYQ says:

   January 31, 2012 at 7:06 pm

   [...] Standing out from the crowd doesn’t always require a booming voice or a wacky hairdo. Sometimes it can be as simple as what you do for a living. [...]
6. What Are the Least Common Jobs in America? - KOWB 1290 says:

   January 31, 2012 at 10:30 pm

   [...] Standing out from the crowd doesn’t always require a booming voice or a wacky hairdo. Sometimes it can be as simple as what you do for a living. [...]
7. What Are the Least Common Jobs in America? - Power 95.9 says:

   February 1, 2012 at 8:11 am

   [...] Standing out from the crowd doesn’t always require a booming voice or a wacky hairdo. Sometimes it can be as simple as what you do for a living. [...]
8. What Are the Least Common Jobs in America? - WIBX 950 says:

   February 1, 2012 at 8:59 am

   [...] Standing out from the crowd doesn’t always require a booming voice or a wacky hairdo. Sometimes it can be as simple as what you do for a living. [...]
9. What Are the Least Common Jobs in America? - True Oldies 100.7 says:

   February 1, 2012 at 10:59 am

   [...] Standing out from the crowd doesn’t always require a booming voice or a wacky hairdo. Sometimes it can be as simple as what you do for a living. [...]
10. What Are the Least Common Jobs in America? - 107.9 The River says:

    February 1, 2012 at 11:05 am

    [...] Standing out from the crowd doesn’t always require a booming voice or a wacky hairdo. Sometimes it can be as simple as what you do for a living. [...]
11. What Are the Least Common Jobs in America? - NewsTalk 1290 News & Talk of Texoma says:

    February 1, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    [...] Standing out from the crowd doesn’t always require a booming voice or a wacky hairdo. Sometimes it can be as simple as what you do for a living. [...]
12. What Are the Least Common Jobs in America? - Flint's News Talk says:

    February 3, 2012 at 8:52 am

    [...] Standing out from the crowd doesn’t always require a booming voice or a wacky hairdo. Sometimes it can be as simple as what you do for a living. [...]
13. Odd jobs | Career Services Blog says:

    February 7, 2012 at 9:12 am

    [...] Posted on February 7, 2012 Filed Under Career Change, Employment, Finding a Job | Leave a Comment Before I start, allow me to draw a distinction. What I intend to talk about are not “odd jobs”— shorthand for irregular, perhaps short-term work. Rather, I want to talk about odd jobs. Have you ever watched the television show Dirty Jobs? Although I realize the intention of the show is to showcase jobs which, literally, require that one get down and “dirty,” what I enjoy most about the show is, in fact, the variation of jobs it highlights. Jobs you’d never known existed. Elephant nose-hair clipper. Human penguin. While neither of those aforementioned jobs exist (to my knowledge), I think they capture the spirit of Dirty Jobs nicely—a show which brings attention to some of the more odd and peculiar elements comprising America’s job-scape. And despite the name and its focus, I think what’s driving Mike Rowe, the show’s host, are venerable, almost democratic intentions: the show is as much about people who get dirty at work as a vehicle through which Rowe is able to examine, first-hand, the bowels (no pun intended) of Western society and reveal each and every single gear that helps to power the Modern Age. Keeping this in mind, Rowe’s object is to show—in the same way that a documentarian might—how each gear (every job in America’s job-scape), from investment banker to zoo keeper, is equal and ultimately works toward the same goal. The philosophy driving Dirty Jobs aside, I, like a lot of people (I think), am interested in odd, uncommon jobs. Not because of what they may speak to, but because of their novelty. Thus, TheWorkBuzz must have had me in mind when it recently published its list of “least common jobs in America.” [...]
14. The Least Common Career? « Resilience Economics says:

    February 12, 2012 at 7:51 am

    [...] morning, I ran into an article that reports the 18 least common careers in the [...]

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