So whats "recession proof" employment in your area?

I don't know of too many good cooks that aren't employed regularly in almost any area. Maybe not in fancy restaurants and certainly some jobs are lower pay, but most experienced chefs can find work almost anywhere.

I'm in DC... Politicians... Oh.. and Lobbyists...

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Retirement is the big employer here.

Health care will always be there. Building trades will always be there, but in recession, many are laid off and people tend not to build or hire contractors. Funeral related jobs. Grocery stores.

Just think: What will people still need, no matter how tough times are?

Financial and Quality Auditors have good careers where I am located. Other jobs in my area - nursing, rocket science, engineering, design, project management, software development/coding, and grounds keepers (all these nice campus settings need grass mowed and flowers planted).

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Law enforcement, Lawyers, Drug dealers, Lawyers, Con artists, Lawyers (oxymoron), General stealing, Fencing (not the livestock kind), Lawyers, and the Funeral Home stays pretty busy as well.

I think everything has been affected here. Older workers in needed professions have been laid off for younger cheaper employees. Many state and local government employees were offered early employment. I think the workers at the bottom of the pay scale in jobs that are really needed still have jobs but no opportunity to move up Even cities have laid off. Law enforcement has been cut way back here, they are asking for a higher tax base to continue services. We are now in tax compression, when properties are not worth what they were and the schools and safety services do not have the money they used to. Oregon can not raise taxes more than 3% in any one year and property values are going down faster than that....James

We live in an area where there really aren't any businesses or jobs. Welfare provides the income for most of the people in this area.

The businesses that are within a driving distance (if you own a car-30 minutes to an hour) have made drastic cuts recently. My husband and daughter both had full time jobs that were cut to less than 24 hours a week. Why? In preparation for "ObamaCare". The employers cannot afford to pay for employee insurance, so they have eliminated all full time positions. The employers sent home questioneres to be filled out, regarding size of family, total income, and such. If it was determined that your employer would have to pay 100% of your insurance, then your full time position was reduced to part time. The employers were open and honest about why they eliminated the full time positions. Sadly, this happened to lots of people in many areas of employment.

Thankfully, we are used to living a hardscrabble life (which is why we have always been homesteaders- can't afford to be anything but mostly self-sufficient and self-reliant).

Also, both jobs were recently moved back up to full time (yay!) because the employers said that "ObamaCare" had been put on hold until 2015. However, their jobs will still be cut to part time if/when the health care plan passes.

In our area, there is nothing that is recession proof.

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Mining and healthcare especially senior care. That is going to be huge over the next few years.

I work in an office in the worker's comp/risk management department, but have a Human Resource degree/background. The biggest way to make yourself recession-proof is BE A GOOD EMPLOYEE, no matter what your field! I'm not trying to toot my own horn, because I do not view what I do as extra-ordinary; I do what I am asked to the best of my ability, and try to have a positive impact on my company. I do not "live to work", though - I work to live. But when I am at the office for my 40 hours, I get the job done. This is my 2nd company in a row to go through a major financial crisis; I watched everyone around me get laid off, even though frequently I was there a shorter amount of time. The first company ended up closing its doors, but I was there a lot longer than others, and when it was my time to be let go, I walked out with my severence pay, straight to my current position because my boss helped me get interviews that may not have happened without his recommendation. When both companies had to down-size to make ends meet, I was willing to do what needed to be done and I was asked to do so because they knew I was capable and they could count on me. It may not have been what I was hired to do, but I learned and did so without whining. I was specifically told this the first time around; I had the job because I was reliable, capable and trustworthy. Tenure doesn't get the job done.

I cannot tell you how often I hear employees gripe about being asked to do something that isn't in their job description/contract/union agreement. Outside of obvious illegal activities, why in the world would you want to have NO job over a different job? Be willing to go with the flow, and you're more likely to come out on top and have new skills to boot!

Sounds like reassessment time.

"Recession proof job?"

Work for yourself.

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I would hate my boss if I worked for myself..too intense and wants everything perfect.

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I don't think really any job is recession proof. When I first started to go to school for nursing, you were pretty much guaranteed a job after graduation. 3 years after that when I finished my prerequisites and the first year of nursing school obtaining my LPN, I was lucky to land a job in a hospital (most went to work in a nursing home).

The next year when I finished my RN, most of the people in my class were unable to find a job. Some even had to move to different states to find a job. Sure, there are tons of jobs listed for RNs, but they aren't actually hiring for them or they want you to have a ton of experience in that particular position. The largest hospital in my area is currently doing layoffs. Add in the fact that Medicare has lowered their reimbursement rates, I see it only getting worse to find a job. We will just be forced to work with less staff then is safe in order for hospitals to stay open.

Around here, teaching is NOT a recession safe profession. We have been cutting teachers like crazy in this region for the past 4-5 years. Not too sure about at the Universities, but when I was in school many of my instructors were part timers. They had day jobs teaching in high schools or working in industry.

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Well, it depends what exactly are we talking about? Careers, employment or work? In the sense that here, everyone wants things cleaned, yards cut, sitters for the elderly overnight, etc., but they don't want to pay more than the minimum wage, and often they don't want to pay the minimum. There are only so many hours in a week to work. Until recently I had 4 and 5 p-t jobs, so I'm not sure what is recession-proof.

I'm a paramedic. No COLAs for the past few years and our health care costs have gone up, but we're still hiring.

Police officers/peace officers seem not to be having any problems keeping employment around here. EMT's seem to be doing OK too, although their pay seems low for what they do and the training that is required to get employment. Government workers at the state and local level, including those in education have been experiencing reductions in force or furloughs, so that's not as bullet proof as it once was.

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Farm labor seems pretty recession proof in our area. At least it is on my farm, there is never a shortage of work to be done around here. When it looks like I am about caught up, my Yvonne hands me a brand new list.

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