Looking for a good job? Two words – “drone pilot”

Companies like Amazon and Facebook and Google are getting into drones in a big way. And according to CNN, they're paying big money ($50 an hour!) for drone pilots and the engineers who build them. In the next several years, some people estimate over 100,000 jobs will be created by work related to drones.

And the University of North Dakota now offers a bachelors degree in unmanned aircraft systems They just got a $25 million grant to build new facilities. One of the new uses for drones will be drone crop-dusters, so....agriculture.

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