Top 10 Hot Jobs in Fast-Growing Snohomish County

Seattle Hill-Silver Firs is an unincorporated community in Snohomish County, Washington. The entire county is a beautiful landscape and the village of Seattle Hill-Silver Firs sits northeast of Mill Creek and a little southeast of the major City of Everett. This area is about 16 miles north of Seattle and just east of Puget Sound.

BusinessWeek recognized the village in early 2010 as the fastest growing community in Washington, while in 2009, US News & World Report and Money.com graded it equal in most categories with their Best Places to Live in America, with a slightly above average cost of living (but no city income tax) and a comparatively low crime rate. With a population of over 46,000 people, almost 74% of them are under age 50, according to Sperling's Best Places.

Over 41,000 job openings were listed within 25 miles (12,000 within 15 miles) of Seattle Hills-Silver Firs in mid-February 2010, after an increase in job listings of 12% overall in the 18 months ending December 1, 2009. Job growth reached over 35% from 2000 - 2008, although jobs decreased in late 2009 by 2.8% according to Sperling's. Future job growth is predicted at 24.50% overall by 2020.

The largest numbers of job openings are found in the nearby larger cities of Seattle, Redmond, Bellevue, Everett, and Bothell in Washington.

Snohomish County and Seattle Hill-Silver Firs offer residents many outdoor sports and recreational activities that include motorboating, sailing, golf courses, fitness programs, skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, hiking and bike trails, birding, and others.  Sporting events are avaiable for attendance for local high school and community sports as well as spectator team sports in the larger cities. In 2010, many people from this area of Washington traveled to Vancouver BC to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Easy access to the Candian border is not far away by auto, bus, train, jet, and ferry..

Seattle Hill-Silver Firs is a sopcially conscious commnuity, active in a number of charities and community service projects contributions. In is also a family community that provides an array of concerts, arts fairs, films, museums, winteries, and historical places.

This growing refuge for all sorts of wildlife is in Arlington WA not far from Seattle Hill-Silver Firs. Miracles happen daily there and you may like to read about one of their double miracles: Jeff Guidry - The Circle of Healing

See more stories and view the gallery at Sarvey Wildlife Center.

1. Physical Therapists
2. Software Engineers
3. Registered Nurses (RNs)
4. Project Managers
5. Medical Assistants
6. Store Managers
7. Account Executives and Account Managers
8. Occupational Therapists
9. Sales Representatives
10. Restaurant Assistant Managers

Additional High-Demand Jobs

1. Medical Assistants
2. Administrative and Executive Assistants
3. Financial Advisors
4. Program Managers
5. Receptionists
6. Sales Associates
7. Customer Service Representatives
8. Business Intelligence Analysts
9. Web Developers
10. IT Systems Engineers

1. Microsoft - Redmond
2. University of Washington Medical Center - Seattle
3. Seattle Main Clinic - Virginia Mason Medical Center (one of the tiop job listers above)
4. South Seattle Community College
5. Harborview Medical Center
6. Genie Industries
7. Veteran's Administration Healthcare - Seattle
8. Snohomosh County Council - Everett
9. Liberty Mutual Surety
10. Evergreen Hospital - Kirkland

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Universities and Career Colleges within 20 miles of Seattle Hill-Silver Firs

1. Edmonds Community College
2. Everett Community College
3. Lake Washington Technical College
4. Seattle Community College-North Campus
5. City University in Bellevue WA
6. Bellevue Community College
7. Seattle University

Seattle Hill-Silver Firs is approximately 2 miles east of highway I-5 that runs from the Canadian border with Washington on the north south to Seattle and on to Tacoma and finally, Mexico at San Ysidro. Most residents in the village drive alone or carpool to work.

Seattle Bus System:

Route 412 travels between Downtown Seattle and Silver Firs several times daily on Mondays through Fridays and takes a little longer than an hour.

Nearby airports include:

• Harvey Field in Snohomish WA
• Cannon International - Everett WA
• Pain Field - Everertt WA
• Boeing Field/King County International Airport - a major airport 25 miles away

The Snohomish Native Americans were one of the first of the First Nations and "American Indians" that I was honored to study in anthropolgy and culture courses as a younger adult. One of their national or tribal legends is called Pushing Up the Sky and is much like the Biblical Tower of Babel story. Briefly summarized:

The Creator formed the world in the East and worked to the West, presenting a new languages to each new group of people He made. He liked Puget Sound so much, He stopped there.  He scattered the many remaining languages around the water and up into the northern lands.

The peoples could not commuicate, but no one liked the way the Creator had made the world -- with a sky so low that tall people bumped into it. But, some people did the forbidden and climbed in trees, learned other words and visited the Sky World.

The wise men from all tribes met and decided that all people, animals, and birds would push the sky higher together. The signal was devised that everyone would understand – a call of “Ya-hoh”, meaning “Lift together” and which the Snohmosh still call out today in working together.

The people, animals, and birds all made fir-tree poles and gathered them up against the sky to push. The signal was given many times and each time, the sky was raised a little until it is where it is today.

Some unfortunate Hunters chased Elks that jumped into the Sky World, and there they remained. Today they are stars -- The Three Hunters make the handle of the Big Dipper and the middle hunter has his dog, a tiny star. The Four Elks from the bowl of the dipper. Other people were also caught in the Sky World during the pushing up and make other patterns in our night sky.