Good Industries to get into now, post election (aka butthurt republicans part 4)

Depends what truly happens with the tax system. With a lot of breaks expiring, it's going to be complicated this year, unless Obama decides to let things expire and he simplifies the system.

 

Alcohol. Find a skilled position in the alcohol industry. Alcohol consumption is increasing, especially wine and spirits. I believe beer consumption is down.

 

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Temp employees are becoming popular in many sectors. A temp employee business may be good to run.

 

WTF! I want my 4 minutes back!

 

Nice shot. For a smart guy, you are pretty stupid if you think our decision wasn't well considered. We had discussed it for over a year. Also, your position that your company exists to provide a living for you and your employees tells me all I need to know about your economic literacy.

 

And you say Obama is intellectually lazy. So many assumptions you're making about me out of a few sentences. My position was never that my employer is here to give me a job. That's reaching pretty hard.

The company I work for exists to bill clients. I have a job because I let the company bill clients and do my job well enough for them to like it. But my company isn't afraid of treating employees like people. When there's no work for a few weeks, no client in the pipeline that needs my skills, I don't bill and I have to learn a new skill to get the work. I get that. I've done that. I've acquired seven different job titles in six years, all things I can do to bill clients, because I work my ass off to learn a new skill so my company can bill me out to a client. And I love it. It's exciting. It's intellectually stimulating. It's not for everyone, but it is for me. I wouldn't do this job if I thought my entitlement was to hang around the office chatting to Janice and collecting my salary.

What's interesting about the company I work for is that the work we're doing gives them enough of a margin to provide perks for us while still offering a good wage. So it can be done. And the people are genuinely nice to work for, so there's that too. Good folks, etc.

I don't know how to communicate to you my position because you're doing a bunch of between-the-lines reading and assuming about me. But if you think I feel entitled to my job and "free stuff" or whatever the latest talking point is, you can fuck off.

 

It's....It's complex

 

I'm happy to fuck off, but I stand by my statement. I don't know why you deleted your previous post to which I referred, but there was a sentence in there that pointed directly to my point--that you employer exists to provide you a job. That's fundamentally wrong. They exist to provide a return to their investors.

Golly, I think it's great you're a hard worker. Bully for you. Just remember, you started this with your little shot at the decision our firm made. I think it's pretty funny that you don't work for yourself, you haven't hired anyone, you haven't provided returns to investors that allowed them to make other investments and achieve their dreams. Yet you feel entitled to take shots from the peanut gallery. Go ahead. The view from the cheap seats must be nice.

 

Never have faith in your employer. Don't you realize you are all disposable and have no say whether or not you keep your job? There is no career path, the new normal is to hop from job to job chasing the quick dollar. The business climate shifts, what exists now won't in a decade. I'm absolutely seeing it now with people mid-career getting laid off to either outsource or some hack college grad that isn't as good/experienced but the cost-benefit analysis says they can afford to take a hit in the short term.

Healthcare is pretty much the only safe and steady job. Developers are pretty safe (actually booming) for right now because there's a bubble going on in Silicon Valley again.

Don't be a dinosaur, you have to find the newest train to ride on and get off before it falls off the cliff, hence the purpose of this thread.

 

Not any more.

 

I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't delete any post.

You know nothing about me (self-employed and running my own business at 19... yeah it failed but that's life), and I know nothing about you (have you ever created a physical good someone could hold in their hands?). So in the spirit of fairness, how about this: I'll stop taking shots at you if you'll stop assuming things about my life and extrapolating. Deal?

 

I just contracted with a Fortune 500 company as an export consultant a few months ago. Things are going to go global fast, and if you're in brick and mortar, or even if you teach in college in liberal arts or other nonsensical degrees, you'll be left behind.

Also, learn how to speak Espanol and Mandarin. I only know one of them passably.

 

I happen to think you're naive if you think that your job and your benefits are permanent. Then again, you're a liberal working for The Man, so there may be an inherent gullibility and lack of cynicism involved here. I, for one, wish I wasn't so cynical or distrustful of those with power.

 

嗯，他們差不多這樣實際上擁有我們我們還是 學習他們的語言。

 

Design and engineering are moving overseas, by the way. At least in tech. Sure, you lose innovation a bit, but the status quo is all that matters when people don't have money do upgrade to new technology.

Remember 3D TV? Neither do I.

 

Not that one.

Do you speak Mandarin?

 

Ah, I see the misunderstanding! When I said "These are not going away" I meant, "these benefits are not going away tomorrow because someone got elected". I get why you're all up in my chili now.

No, of course nothing's permanent. I thought the whole "Gotta learn new skills to get the hours or you're left behind" aspect of my position made that apparent. Anyway, I'll just let this go, because frankly nobody's going to have their minds changed, and everyone here seems to really want to hurt each other right now. Myself included earlier today.

Cheers, guys.

 

No. I was just horsing around on the 'net.