Hi this is Frank Romano from WhatTheyThink.com.  Welcome back.  There was an interesting article recently and it said 10 middle class jobs that will vanish by 2018.  That’s not that far away when you get right down to it.  You know, some of them I can understand.  Machinists, yeah, a lot of that is now done by electronics driving various machines that cut the tools in various ways.  Alright, that makes sense.  Farmers and ranchers, I don’t know.  Yes we’ve automated that to a high degree, the machinery, GPS systems take care of a lot of it, but you still need somebody there if something goes wrong.  Computer operators, yeah probably true, although we need a lot of people to write the software for the computers to make them do what they do.  Paper goods machine setters, probably so.  But the one that got my eye was desktop publishers.  Wait a minute, what does this say here?  It says, “Similar to a print media graphic designer, desktop publishers use computers to put together pictures and text to make brochures, books, calendars, newsletters, and newspapers.  Learning basic desktop publishing skills and using software like Microsoft PowerPoint is now a regular job for most office workers, which has caused the demand for desktop publishers to drop dramatically.”  So what they’re saying is, because it’s moved in-house, done by secretaries, production people, and others, therefore the commercial desktop publishers, someone who does it as a service for someone else, is starting to decline.  I like the fact that they equate them to print media graphic designers.  I don’t know if there’s a big difference between a graphic designer and a desktop publisher.  They’re both putting pages together on a screen.  One may have some more creativity than the other but I’m not certain which one that is.  In any case, they say the median salary is $36,600.  If that’s the case, I’m going to get a job as a desktop publisher even though I only will have a job for six more years.  I think it’s rather interesting that they define that as one of the middle class jobs that’s going to go away.  I’m quite certain about that, there will always be a need for people to put something together for someone else.  Maybe the number will go down slightly, but we will still need the service of someone to assemble pages for whatever commercial purpose you can imagine.  And that’s my opinion.  In this new era which is beyond the personal computer.