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Largely forgotten amidst the throes of recession, is the fact that some jobs do not have enough people to fill them. It seems that in particular, positions that require years of on-the-job experience are becoming harder and harder to fill. Some employers even fear that the pressure to attend college draws people away from occupational training and a focus on a single skill. Recent data shows that welders, critical care nurses, electrical linemen, special education teachers, and geotechnical and civil engineers are in high demand right now. Specifically, workers with some years of invaluable on-the-job experience, not engineers fresh out of college. According to a monthly report from The Conference Board, only four categories of work had insufficient numbers of unemployed available to fill the jobs listed - architecture, engineering, computer and mathematical science, and health care.