The profession with the most open job ads was retail salespersons, with 1,616.
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Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 May 2026
In 2025, a staggering 623,000 people claimed to be home health and personal assistants, making it by far the biggest occupation in the state, far outstripping retail salespersons, nurses or cashiers and waitresses.
The only leaders more buffoonish and lethal than the fairground hucksters elected in our failing democracies are the omnipotent clowns of tyranny.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
Yet many mysteries remain, and plenty of myths and pseudoscientific claims surrounding the brain are still out there — many based on either misunderstandings of the empirical data or the misleading promises of hucksters.
The people who work during the day did not go home — secretaries, anybody, salesmen — just to be in Frank Sinatra's presence.
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Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
3 June 2026
In May, Hendy had gone all the way to Pocatello, Idaho, and back, 649 miles each way, while making a series of stops to scrutinize the route and line up crack salesmen as guides.
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