Jobs expected to show the biggest growth over the next 10 years WSOC TV [Video]

CHARLOTTE — Channel 9 has delved into which jobs are expected to show the biggest growth over the next decade.

A virtual reality exercise is giving students the experience of being a wind turbine service technician.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that wind turbine service technicians will be the fastest-growing occupation in the next decade. Second only to solar panel installers.

“It is fast growing because, first of all, the US government is now investing a lot,” said Basra Mewafy, assistant professor at Franklin-Cummings Institute of Technology.

Mewafy said graduates of that two-year solar installer program are getting hired fast and are getting paid well.

“At least starting from 60,000 to 70,000 a year,” Mewafy elaborated.

Nurse practitioners are the third fastest-growing job field, according to the federal government.

Cynthia Bashaw has been a nurse practitioner for nearly 30 years and now chairs a college program at Endicott College …