Methodology
Career Dish is built as a reference tool for people deciding whether to pursue a career. We use public labor datasets for the baseline, then add editorial analysis to explain the lived tradeoffs that raw data does not answer by itself.
The question each guide answers is not "what does this occupation do?" The question is "should this person spend time, money, attention, and identity on this career path?"
That is why Career Dish pages include pay, education cost, licensing or proof requirements, stress, emotional labor, physical labor, analytical load, AI exposure, alternatives, and who should avoid the career.
We match the career to the closest public occupation record, then pull pay, outlook, education, work-context, and work-activity signals.
Raw occupational data is turned into reader-facing metrics such as social load, analytical load, emotional labor, physical labor, routine, autonomy, urgency, precision, and AI exposure.
Each priority career gets a specific point of view about what the job really rewards, what people misunderstand, what makes it stressful, and what kind of person should avoid it.
Salary, stress, day-in-the-life, career-change, alternatives, and comparison pages exist when they answer a distinct decision question.
AI is not the product. It is a production aid used to help organize source material, draft structured explanations, and convert data into readable decision frameworks. The product is the combination of public data, original scoring, editorial judgment, and page structure.
Interview-style sections on Career Dish are explanatory devices. They are designed to make a job's day-to-day tradeoffs easier to scan and understand. They should not be read as literal interviews with named real people unless a page explicitly says otherwise.
Career Dish has moved away from being a set of article-style career stories. The new site architecture is a data-backed career decision directory with canonical career profiles, support pages for specific decision queries, a crawlable career directory, a methodology page, and clearer internal linking around the value the site actually delivers.