The Mad Hatter

COM MENT

An overview of job opportunities

in British Columbia to 1980
Most of the province's workers are in
industries producing services, i.e.
education, health care, trade,
government, transportation and public
utilities, or banking and finance.
The production of goods - raising
food crops, construction, logging,
mining, fishing and manufacturing,
requires only about one third of the
work force andthis proportion has
been declining. Job growth during
the 1970's is expected to continue
to be faster in the service-
producing industries, than in the
goods-producing industries. By
1980, there should be an increase
from 569,000 employees on the pay-
rolls of service industries in B.C.
to an estimated 660,000. This re-
_presents an increase of over
90,000 new jobs in the next 8 years.
Since service industries employ a
relatively high proportion of women,
it seems probable that the expansion
of job opportunities in the decade
ahead will be favourable for women.

By the year 1980, the goods-
producing industries are expected
to show an employment gain of
53,000 jobs. Agriculture and fish-
ing will actually show a decline of
6,000 jobs. Mining and forestry
will show an increase of 9,000 jobs,
despite a very considerable expan-
sion of output during the same
period. Manufacturing should show
an increase of 10,000 jobs. Employ-
ment in the construction sector
snoula increase by an additional
30,000 jobs.

Many individual occupations are
expected to show large employment
increases over the next five to ten
years. These are: accounting,
conservation and environmental con-
trol, counselling, physicians and



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other medical specialists, dentists,
dental hygienists and assistants, &
nursing assistants and aides,
therapists, industrial engineers,
enginesring, medical and science
technicians, architects, planners
and related occupations, computer
programmers, systems analysists,
bank officers, office appliance
operators, computer operators,
stenographers and secretaries,
typists, insurance and real estate
salesmen, sales clerks, chefs and
cooks, hairdressers, hospital
attendants, waiters and waitresses,
protective service occupations,
police, probation, guards, etc.,
carpenters, brick-layers and masons,
plumbers and pipefitters, motor
vehicle mechanics, maintenance
electricians, maintenance mechanics,
instrument repairmen, millwrights,
welders, aircraft mechanics, busi-
ness machine servicemen, autobody
repairmen, and operating engineers.

André Piquette 9

Day Care Sodety

Faculty, staff and students at the
Surrey Campus by now will know that
Douglas College finally has a day
care center. The center opened
Sept. 5th. and enrolls children of
students, staff and faculty as well
as some children from the community.

Head Supervisor is Mrs. Kay Britton
who comes to the center with a rich
background in child care programs.

Kay was one of the first graduates
of the training program at Langara.
Her assistant, Mrs. Kathleen Richard-
son trained in England and Quebec be-

_ fore coming to western Canada.

Both Kay and Kathleen have had
many questions about the center from
interested students and faculty, and
Kay has agreed to answer some of
these questions for the Mad Hatter.

So - answers to questions and comments
“about that Day Care Center over by