Job security may not be what initially draws you to a career field – it’s hard to imagine a kid dreaming of being a “database administrator” when they grow up – but amid times of economic uncertainty, it can be a major plus.
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A possible recession? POSSIBLE???
Truck driver didn't make the list. Imagine that.
ReplyDeleteAmerica is currently short at least 50,000 truck drivers and it didn't make the list.
Last week when I was getting gas I had the opportunity to talk to a tanker driver who was delivering fuel. I asked him if he would mind if I asked him a queston and he said fire away. When I asked him what his job paid he said 104. Since I was wondering what a guy delivering fuel made by the hour I didn't understand, so I asked him to clarify. He said "About $104,000 a year. That's $34.50 an hour and all the overtime you can handle".
I was blown away.
All but two or three of those jobs were college major jobs, not blue collar. I guess "they" are still pushing people to go to college and amass huge debts to keep the professors employed.
DeleteI would love to see Mike Rowe's list of Secure Jobs as opposed to this one. I have a feeling his list would include people who actually make America work, not Database Administrators and School Psychologists.
DeleteTPTB are planning on self driving/slaved semis. A couple years ago I met a guy who was working on the latter. One driver in the lead, and up to nine partial AI vehicles that are slaved into his following along. Either way, the future for truck drivers looks bleak. At least if the (truly evil) Davos crowd gets their way.
DeleteI agree with the medical profession being secure. Doctors need to see patients in real life.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with the Database Administrator and other computer jobs. You can still get laid off because computer geek in Hyderabad or Bangalore, India is quite happy to take your job for 1/4 of your pay, and they don't even have to leave India, even though they want to.
I have found the Indians are typically under 25, and make the same rookie mistakes I made when I was getting started in programming.
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The perennial favorite for depression-proof job is "plumber". If the lights don't work, people will use a candle. If there's a draft, they'll put on a sweater. If their bored, they'll tell stories. If they're shaggy, they'll grab a pair of scissors. If their car breaks down, they'll walk.
ReplyDeleteBut if the shits overflowing into the basement, they'll call a plumber, and figure out SOME way to pay him. Every. Single. Time.
That's the advice I've been giving to my sons for a decade now. We're headed into hard times, get a job that's indispensable even in hard times. And chicks might not like the smell of shit, but they *LOVE* the smell of money. And double that love in hard times.
My grandfather's Great Depression-proof job was debt collector - the worse it got, the more International Harvester needed him! But you might feel less dirty if you spent your day working on clogged drains than driving around to distressed farms and demanding money...
DeleteJust make sure that if you are depending on a construction trade as your layoff-proof job that you are in repairs, not new construction. When the economy gets tight, new construction is one of the first things canceled. But if you repair something in old buildings, your hours may get cut as people will repairs as long as possible, but eventually they'll have to get it fixed. Especially the plumbing...
How did govt. "worker" not top the list. They never get furloughed, and they hardly even have to show up.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't count as "work"?
Delete"Possible" recession.
ReplyDeleteGotta keep a happy spin on the bullshit as long as possible, WC.
One day that shit balloon is gonna pop, but don't you worry, they've got another bullshit spin on that archived & ready for broadcast, betchur ass
Let me tell you....some of those jobs might be the "safest", but they aren't "safe from".
ReplyDeleteI do two of the jobs on that list, and both of them have seen *drastic* cuts since the start of the pandemic. I'm earning around 40% of what I was earning in January of 2020, 87% of my customers cut all spending during the initial lockdown, and I'm currently at 10% of the customer base I had at the beginning of 2020. Mainly because the customers never returned, and because some went out of business.
Two more of my clients told me a week ago that they're cutting spending drastically. One of them is a 30-site business spread across Washington, Oregon, and part of California. They fired 4 of their "facilities" staff of 5 people. And they aren't toilet-plungers. These facilities staff are people that repair specialized mechanical equipment that is *vital* to the operation of the business. If a piece of equipment fails, an office is down. They went from doing same-day response when something failed to "I can get to it in a 5-10 days". One guy is covering a 750 mile stretch of road that spans between the 30 locations.
Just driving from end-to-end is approximately a 10.5 hour drive depending on traffic. The company cut his pay too. The company pays gas, and put him on salary so he can now work 70 hours for the same pay he was getting when he worked 40.
The big employers in my area (Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, etc...) have all laid off thousands of employees. Most of them are going on to the government check.
I hope I'm just some crazy doomsayer, but I think this "recession" is about to be rapidly followed by a "great depression".
Thankfully my house and all my bills are paid off, we have years of food storage, a huge garden, plenty of chickens and turkeys, and low-mileage vehicles.
How about having enough ambition to get your lazy soy-ass off the couch and working wherever you can?
ReplyDeletePlenty of us had paying jobs not because they were dream jobs, rather a means of SUPPORTING YOURSELF until you have the skills to move up.
Possible... as in not just bc of 2 quarters of shrinkage
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