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Recession-proof, Depression-proof, and Any-proof Jobs
During an economic crisis like the one we're in right now,
news broadcasts like to try and 'help' their viewers by
running segments about the "professions that will
be most in-demand in 2012", or "jobs that are
recession-proof" or whatever the appropriate spin-term
they need to use at that particular time. Then the segment
is usually about a couple of really obscure niches that
perhaps 1% or less of their viewers would/could actually
pursue. They'll highlight how lasik eye surgery is becoming
so common and well-accepted these days that there will
soon be a big void of licensed specialists around to perform
the procedure. So if you want to start a new career and
learn to be an eye surgeon trained to perform laser procedures
on other people……this is your lucky day!
It puts me to thinking about what jobs are the really,
truly vocations that will never die out. During good times
and bad, we need these people to provide the goods or
services that they do. It doesn't matter if prices are
on the rise due to inflation…..we must have this
person's product. Or if jobs are in short supply due to
a recession or a Great Depression (like we are embroiled
in right now), we still need the services of these invaluable
people. They have consummate value in a society where
most CV workers need to ban together in a forum such as
cvworkersunited.com
One might think doctors, nurses, and other trained medical
personnel would be a member of this club. I disagree.
Just as in the previously used example, surgery can be
performed by laser beams and other tools that are becoming
so advanced that we will not need the entire team of anesthesiologists
and assistants currently seen in an operating room. Machines
will soon make the cuts and organ removals that we rely
on fellow well-trained humans for at the moment. Stitches
will be applied by robotic sewing machines. The present
technology that helps us to save more lives for conditions
that were once fatal will be the same auspices that trim
the human medical population down to nil.
I'm talking about jobs that on their fundamental level
keep them from ever becoming unnecessary or to eventually
be performed by robotics/machines.
Bartending is a profession that we will need until the
end of humankind. People have escaping their stress and
problems, or celebrating their achievements and good fortune
since the advent of alcoholic beverages. And as a people,
we will always need other people to dispense these beverages
to us. While a great many of bars and restaurants fail
due to mismanagement, bad location, or other handicaps…we
will never NOT have a need for bartenders and waitresses.
They bring us the libations that help us to forget our
trying day. They provide a smile and serve as our personal
gofers as long as we want the product in their charge.
The undertaking business is another vocation that will
be needed until the final day. As a people, many of our
religious and personal beliefs call for a ceremony toward
the celebration of our loved ones' lives. And what we
believe to be a proper burial with a comfortable resting
chamber and tribute pieces (headstones, etc) in the departed's
honor. There's nothing wrong with any of these beliefs.
They provide a sense of comfort to the surviving friends
and family members that they honored the departed, and
maintain a place to come and continue to pay their respects
to that person. This is why we will always need morticians
and funeral directors. And grave diggers. Granted, some
of the duties of the mortician have already been supplanted
by technology, but I'm not sure a machine can ever dress
and make-up a deceased person in the caring and respectful
way that it is currently done. And while backhoes and
mini-BOBS have replaced the need for the number of grave
diggers……someone at least still needs to operate
that machinery. For now, that is.
Finally, I have to give a quick mention to the world's
oldest profession. While partially tongue-in-cheek, let's
face true facts. It's called the "world's oldest
profession" because it has indeed lasted every phase
of civilization. There will always be a demand for the
services that the agents of this particular vocation offer.
And there has never failed to be a market/clientele for
that service no matter what the global climate was like.
Famine, war, plague……nothing interrupts this
line of work. So it had to be mentioned.
Now we at cvworkersunited.com are not suggesting that
our audience should pursue this avenue. We leave that
to the news broadcasts. We just wanted to make you think
about real, feasible, actual professions that we will
always have a need for. And hey….maybe bartending
or opening a funeral home isn't the craziest idea in the
world. If you have the stomach for the trials and tribulations
of bartending.
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