Monday, Nov 12, 2007
10 indestructible jobs : some of which are probably recession proof...
MSN: 10 indestructible jobs
Society is changing but some jobs will always stand the test of time – no matter how fast technology evolves and however many machines are invented to do the jobs our great-grand parents once undertook. No matter how much info you can find out on Google and Wikipedia, we will always need people to take care of the sick, teach our children, maintain our cars and keep the tax man at bay!
Here are 10 jobs that do just that:
Posted by disillusioned @ 03:48 PM (1605 views) Add Comment
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1. uncle tom said...
What a silly list - you might as well add politicians and prostitutes - they'll never go away!
2. harold said...
They forgot undertaking - a growth industry in the BTL sector soon, I expect.
3. enuii said...
Complete Rubbish, since when have nannies and gardeners been indispensible, plus there is no mention of all the Engineers that try to keep the lights on whilst our pathetic politicians do not even have a viable energy policy. Without electricity most Londoners would probably end up dead as civil unrest and disease would rip the capital apart within a week making all the soft jobs in the list irrelevant!
4. drewster said...
Yes it is a silly list. Estate agents are listed at #9. 'Nuff said!
5. Orwell said...
sewerage operatives - the great stink affecetd everyone - although Tommy Sheridan thinks that it came out of Parliament and that they should have hung sheets on the inside to stop the stench of corruption getting out and not the other way around to prevent the stink getting in!!!
6. Matt_the_hat said...
Stand back this list will self destruct within 1 year....
7. Cstanhope707 said...
Teachers - Offshore tuitoring of school work it's only a matter of time
Estate Agents - We will eventually buy and sell online i.e. TESCO without the pointless middleman that does nothing
Plumbers - Long way off but does anyone remember TV Repair men
Mechanics - Read Plumbers
Accountants - Again Offshore!!!
But Lawyers will always keep their jobs as most politicians are lawyers ruled by self interest!!! And Doctors also but atleast they do make a
contribution
8. Red Baron said...
What an assinine list, prepared by a silly girl ignorant of the real world.
Top of my list would be undertakers - no mention of them. As for estate agents they will simply cease to exist in a decade - the internet will have take over.
9. New Poster said...
Plumbers listed and not electricians and Tescos I believe are doing their best to do away with Estate Agents - don't think much of that list.
10. Ong said...
Undertakers should definitely be in there - counter cyclical as well. More people die early during recessions
11. sold out said...
I suppose all those BTL millionaires ( trained by inside track ) will be employing all the nannies and gardners then.In reality Debt Collector should be top of the list.
12. An Bearin Bui said...
Estate agents, gardeners and nannies? Probably three of the least recession-proof jobs currently available in the UK I would say, I suppose what they were trying to get at is the idea of jobs that are tied into a local economy rather than a global one for which you have to compete with Indian and Chinese people. Kind of backfires on them though...
13. daft boy said...
They left out debt collectors for some reason. A job with a great future in the UK
14. Surfgatinho said...
What a pile of old toss!
Plumbers how passe is that?! Have they not heard of Poland?
Accountants - hmm, outsourcing, more sophisticated account software...
In fact from 3 down they are all pretty ill thought out.
15. voiceofreason said...
All the engineers will be laughing.
As the pound gets cheaper we will be hired by Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, Russian companies to design and make all their luxury goods, building projects, industrial designs etc etc. In fact, we will probably even be paid in hard currencies like Yuan and Rubels which we can spend in the special hard currency shops in Chelski.
Expect call centres to be big business in the UK too, but the Indian customers will be complaining about our poor knowledge of Bollywood soaps.
Oh yes, and there will be loads of Indian backpacker gap year kids working in the Shoreditch orphanages or the Tunbridge Wells slums :-)
You can have a lot of fun turning the economic tables.
16. happyrenter said...
as we're starting to look daily like the 'B' ark, I'm surprised there are no telephone sanitisers on the list - mind you at least they clean phones, which compared to no. 9 is some added value....
17. John_coller said...
No estate agents should be in the list -- when the recession hits and all the BTL need to sell the estate agents will be flooded with properties to shift before they're repossessed.
18. george monsoon said...
What about..
bakers
lorry drivers
pub landlords
This is a shit list..
19. Orwell said...
plumbers?
property speculators?
land bank agents?
planning consultants?
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