5 Jobs You Thought Were Safe From Outsourcing But Aren't

The debate over job creation has dominated the political landscape of 2012. And with good cause, too, given the national unemployment rate of 8.1 percent. With so many out of work, it's maddening to many that from 2000-2010, 2.4 million people have been hired by U.S. multinationals in jobs outsourced abroad, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal.
Economists may argue that such "offshoring" actually results in the net creation of jobs in this country by making companies more efficient. But in the meantime, no one can deny that jobs in information technology, legal document preparation and countless financial services like tax preparation and insurance underwriting are being done by foreign workers.
And the list goes on. An analysis put together by The Atlantic of the jobs most susceptible to offshoring includes a diverse list: physicists, pharmacists and medical transcriptionists, among others. In an age in which the physical location of the worker matters less and less, thanks to advances in digital technology, are there any jobs left that are truly safe from offshoring?
Perhaps not. AOL Jobs has taken a look at five occupations for which it would be unthinkable that foreign workers could compete with American workers. But they do anyway.
Claire Gordon contributed to this report.
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