Media stocks were mostly rising on Friday, putting a brave face on a sector that was battered this week amid concerns that pay-TV subscribers and advertisers are moving online faster. Doug Kass shares his thoughts on Facebook, Allergan and Eli Lilly. A deal between Sinclair and Tribune and a shift in FCC rules could spur action by CBS, Nexstar and others.

Twitter should embrace the novel idea of becoming a non-profit, for whether or not it knows it--it already is a non-profit. Despite the dour job outlook, though, there remain some industries that can take a newcomer from starting salary to financial security without having to leave their field.

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With help from the good folks at the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, TheStreet found five instances in which entry-level employees can nearly double their salaries while staying within the field they love. Some require an upfront master's degree-sized investment, others will take a high school diploma, but all have a high ceiling for any salary-minded career climber: Ever walk into a movie theater and get annoyed by the commercials, but feel powerless to do anything about it?

If you have a bachelor's degree or better, you're exactly the person the market research industry is built around. Market researchers act as an interpreter for consumers who feel like retailers just don't understand them.

They're the folks with the sample cups at the supermarket, the surveys online and the incentive-based focus groups that help shape the container your microwave mac and cheese comes in, the wireless network your Apple AAPL iPhone is on and which streetlights will be lining your town's roads.

They can also be extremely well paid. Geography factors into this heavily, as much of the work in this industry is clustered around the Seattle-Bellevue area in Washington; Massachusetts' tech corridor off Interstate 95 in Framingham, just west of Boston; and in Silicon Valley. The key to making the big money, however, is chasing it. It's all about your knowledge of the industry, trends in salary and performance incentives and the willingness to basically run another person's life to bankroll your own.

Agents aren't just negotiating salary. They're collecting payments, scheduling promotional appearances, hashing out terms with promoters and union bosses, arranging a client's travel and hotel stays and staying on top of the phone conversations, email and social networking designed to make a client look like the ideal citizen in the eyes of the public and potential employers. One wrong move and it's a solid month of explaining how that video appeared on Deadspin, why those unflattering pictures made it to TMZ and why your client's mugshot on The Smoking Gun is just one big misunderstanding.

Despite the stress, more than 23, people have signed up to be the next Jerry Maguire, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there'll be room for another 10, by If they can refrain from spouting cliches about showing them the money, the new arrivals should go far.

Logisticians and logistics managers are increasingly crucial for not just companies such as UPS, FedEx FDX , Amazon AMZN and anyone else who relies on shipping services, but any business that needs to assess customers' needs and determine what it takes to meet them; make sure supplies and products are available when the customer needs them and that the company is getting the most bang for the buck; and -- when supply falls short -- minimize the fallout.

You need a bachelor's degree in engineering just to get started, which engineering grads who've sacrificed sleep and social lives for that piece of paper can tell you is no easy feat. Even when grads take the plunge, the Bureau of Labor Statistics warns that expanded demand of information technology is tempered in the U.

The good news is that companies such as Apple, Dell DELL , H-P HPQ and Microsoft MSFT will always need folks to research, design, develop, test and oversee the manufacture and installation of computer hardware, including computer chips, circuit boards, computer systems and related equipment such as keyboards, routers and printers.

The reason an iPhone 4 already makes the original iPhone look like a junior high clamshell is through the development and design efforts of engineers such as these. Computer and semiconductor manufacturers are contracting out more of their engineering needs, but there's still a lot of room for growth. That said, any computer hardware engineer that doesn't land a government-related gig in D. Action Alerts PLUS is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc.

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