I am very busy. I've got 2 jobs. One is full time & one is prn (as needed). I get called in all the time. I am a nurse. I am very thankful that I decided to become a nurse. I feel as secure as you can these days. My stepson (I'm divorced from his Dad. But, he still calls me Mom.) is getting laid off from Honda. He asked my advice about recession proof jobs. We've talked for hours recently. I think he is finally settling on Physical Therapy Assistant. He'll have to go thru 2 years of school. But, I told him it'll be worth the effort. What other jobs are recession proof?
If you're not into the investing side, insurance is a safe way to go. It's required by law and it's easy to get into. Just don't turn into one of these :evil:
Teaching. Well for the most part. I feel pretty secure right now, even though I haven't reached tenure, yet. My fiance is going to be a Pharmacist. That field is very recession proof (ok, not PROOF, but a very high demand field).
Nurse,teacher,politicion are a few that I know of. By the time he get's schools done this thing should be over.
You wouldn't BELIEVE what a shortage of med techs we have in this country... It's 90% of my customer base, with the remaining being made up of pathologists and the C-suite at hospitals and POLs (physician-owned labs). Not exactly sure about the pay structure, but you could write your ticket to anywhere you wanted to work with an MT degree.
I honestly think that just about any agriculture job is pretty well recession proof. People have to eat, therefore people must grow food. It is way to expensive to import and we have tons of great agricultural land. Whether it be farming or ranching, I do feel that a guy or gal with a good work ethic can always find a steady job in agriculture.
Funeral director, police, fire, ems. Everyone dies, things burn, people get hurt. Usually, most govt. jobs fall into that category.
With the "baby boomer" generation getting up there in age and Doctors wanting to medicate you for everything I think that be a Pharmacist is a pretty safe job. There is a shortage of pharmacists right now so their pay keeps going up and up as companies battle to keep or hire qualified individuals. My wife has been a Pharmacist for four years and has received over $30,000 in raises since she started. You can easily start out at $100K a year straight out of college.
Insurance is anything but safe. If you don't sell, you will starve. We've had ALOT of people cancel their insurance due to hard times. I'd say medical field, corrections officer, perhaps even a barber.
Farming. They can't take the land, just crush the value of crops. :D Talk about spinning wheels and not making much progress. In rough years you still work hard, with little pay. EDIT: Sorry, I didn't see Zach's post. I agree with you Zach.
I feel pretty safe in my job. Head electrican at a small Catholic university. Kids are gonna keep going to school, maybe not as many of them but someone has to be here to keep the campus running for the ones that can.
I'm in industrial sales, I have no fears of losing my job, it's just that if I don't sell, I don't make any money being on straight commission, and right now the sales are about 50% of where they should be. I'ts gonna be a rough one for a while.....I may end up moving in with Sunset for a while !!!
just about any job that gets its paycheck from the dept of treasury... even during the worst of times i've never heard of govt jobs shrinking... some how they always have enough money for themselves...
I hate to say it but farming is definitely not recession proof. Although farming has been getting tougher and tougher even when times were good the recession is killing em. Our cattle business is losing farmers every month because Farm Credit won't give out anymore help to some. Milk prices were down below $9 a hundred, and after last year when they were up to 22, it's quite the switch. Beef has been lower than average. Corn and soybeans are low, and soybeans ALWAYS are high.
I'm in the environmental field and i feel pretty safe. But then again if i was in the private sector i probably wouldnt feel the same way.
The only sure things in life are death and taxes... So if I had to choose a career path again, it'd be funeral director or tax collector (IRS agent)
I left industrial sales for medical sales almost 2 1/2 years ago... (I was an account manager with Grainger Industrial for five years). I've told my wife on numerous occasions how glad I'm not doing that right now. I feel for ya. I remember feeling every little blip on the economic radar WELL ahead of when the rest of the nation knew anything was starting to turn sour... Heck, it's tough enough selling capital right now into the hospitals. People that would normally be replacing analyzers every five years are holding off until they see how things shake out.
I dont know if I agree with all of this. I am not going to say that there are not any tough years in agriculture, but there is never going to be a complete recession of agriculture. People HAVE to eat, and we can make food cheaper than anyone. Market prices for commodities always go in a circle. Take cattle for example, generally a 3 year cycle. Year 1: cattle prices are high so tons of investors put alot of money into feeding cattle Year 2: the surplus of cattle causes the price to take a downward shift. Year 3: investors back out of their cattle ventures and look somewhere elso to invest untill prices come back up, leading to a shortage and thus a higher market value for cattle. No it isnt always down to a science w/ the # of years, I have watched some cyles that take 6 or 7 years but if you look at the books they always come back around. One reason for the lower value of our commoddities is that many of our great trading markets have been shut down or slowed immensely. When we can get those barriers down and begin trading alot w/ foreign markets we wont have such a surplus still in the states. America's agriculture is by a long shot the most efficient in the world. Our sciences and technologies have allowed us to be that way. I dont ever see this industry bing diminished by a recession. The only way that guys could lose their farms, ranches is if they dont completely buckle down extra expenses on thier operation and end up with a profit margin way below their breakeven. I have nothing but respect for just about anybody in the agriculture industry, but in tough times, people need to kick their traditional practices to the curb and start looking for more cost efficient ways of doing things.
you do make some solid points. Farming is its own enemy. And now people are too lazy to get into it, I know that. I am willing to bet that in 20-30 years farming will be something folks are going to get into because the demand will rise, because there will be more people quitting. At least we can hope things perk up. Farms have been slowly disappearing for 20 years
