NPR Releases Map Showing The Most Common Job In Louisiana, Year By Year For The Past 34 Years [Picture]

What do you think the most common job in Louisiana is? Oil Field? Sugarcane farmer? Cashier? NOPE!

Traditionally, throughout the late '70s and '80s, secretary has been the most common profession. However, the tides have changed.

Truck driver is the most common job in Louisiana for 2014.

From NPR.org -

*We used data from the Census Bureau, which has two catch-all categories: "managers not elsewhere classified" and "salespersons not elsewhere classified." Because those categories are broad and vague to the point of meaninglessness, we excluded them from our map."

So, why is being a truck driver so popular in Louisiana?

NPR.org says -

• Driving a truck has been immune to two of the biggest trends affecting U.S. jobs: globalization and automation. A worker in China can't drive a truck in Ohio, and machines can't drive cars (yet).
• Regional specialization has declined. So jobs that are needed everywhere — like truck drivers and schoolteachers — have moved up the list of most-common jobs.
• The prominence of truck drivers is partly due to the way the government categorizes jobs. It lumps together all truck drivers and delivery people, creating a very large category. Other jobs are split more finely; for example, primary school teachers and secondary school teachers are in separate categories.

To see the job map for Louisiana and the United States throughout the years, head over  to NPR.org