Top Ten Recession-Proof Jobs
An article in the Chicago Sun-Times discusses which jobs you might want to consider having if you’d like to keep them should your country hit a recession.
Top Ten Jobs With Security:
1. Computer systems analyst.
2. Network systems and data communications analyst.
3. Network and computer systems administrator.
4. Registered nurse.
5. Teacher, postsecondary.
6. Physical therapist.
7. Physician and surgeon.
8. Dental hygienist.
9. Pharmacist.
10. Medical and health services manager
The data-cruching and compiling was done by Laurence Shatkin, who wrote the book 150 Best Recession-Proof Jobs. I have the book in my possession and flipping through it makes me grateful that Shatkin crunched the numbers and did all the research for me; it’s a nicely streamlined wealth of information.
Update: As the recession gets worse, jobs in the medical field seem unfaltering. Consider nursing school or a career as a medical assistant to stay afloat in this current economy.
Posted by Alexa Harrington
Amazing. None of the “jobs” listed can be construed to be the end product of a liberal arts education except #5, which I am taking to be a superset that includes college professor but excludes public school teacher?
I have to confess to not having read Shatkin’s book but I would advance that the organization one works for is as critical as what one does. A teaching assistant may be a #5 but if the assistantship is in a department and college hard hit by recession termination may result. If one works for a government, regardless of what one does, retention is almost certain, at least based on history. However, if one works on contracts from government, termination is probable.
Overall, I would suspect that doing primary (product production) effort for a small, essential organization is better than doing tertiary (secondary service, or administration) effort for a large inessential organization.
In conclusion, consider that most people do not like going to the dentist. The combination of avoidance and economization reduces the demand for dental hygienists. So the system is multilayered.
Looks like we’re 2 for 2 over at the Bradford home. My wife is a dental hygienist, and I’m hoping/planning/going-into-massive-amounts-of-debt to be a physician or possibly a surgeon.
I have to agree with you on this one, Simple Country Physicist. These past few months have been pretty slim for my wife. She normally works for a staffing agency during the week. The amount of temporary jobs has taken a sharp nosedive with the current economic situation. Luckily for us, she just picked up a permanent position at a very busy office.