Post: #26

(03-22-2011 11:21 PM)Brian Wrote:  the need for professionals who used to provide these services is gone.

I think the problem of exporting jobs to enrich the top 1% of stockholders is a little more fine-grained than the "hopeless" judgment.

I sort of lucked into an export-resistant profession when I go tired of programming and went into mental health. Although in general IT is better paid, i was able to get higher up in MH than I was in IT.

There is a pretty strong cultural barrier to exporting a counselor's job. I personally wouldn't be that interested in getting psychotherapy from someone via teleconference in India no matter how smart he was relative to that culture.

Also, things where you have to be physically in the location ( Network Engineer setting up routers and firewalls rather than programmers who can be anywhere) are more resistant to export.

Nurses also fit in to this category. One health care job that pays over 100k is Nurse Practitioner, requires a master's in nursing--in some states you can get set up almost like a doctor, you just have to have a relationship with a doctor and he doesn't have to be there all the time. In calif, you do need him in the same office I think ; but I had a very good practitioner in Oregon and he really ran his own practice.

I agree with the man who grew up on a farm, to go from law to farming when you're competing with unreal hi-tech conglomerates-- you better have some pretty special niche they're ignoring-- goat cheese or something--or else it will be like moving to Mars.

Post: #27

(03-22-2011 11:21 PM)Brian Wrote:  i seriously think that the last recession never ended and things are going to keep getting worse before they get better.

dude, this is a full blown depression. exponentially growing debt financing by paper printing ponzi schemes, the lowest labor participation rate since WWII (and back then, women were housewives... nowadays, women work and we still have less people employed!), bread lines miles long (43+ million on food stamps), and, to top it off, our government continues to implement more socialist policies.

Post: #28

Yes, why don't we go into full capitalist mode and let those wall street guys transfer all the middle class's wealth into their hands.

Post: #29

We need a separate thread on labor market trends and strategies to hedge against it.