depression jobs

DEPRESSION JOBS


Thanks to Brother Creekmore (http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/ ), yet another stolen idea to manipulate, tweak, repackage and molest into what passes for my own article. Listed were ideas to consider as Recession Self-Employment Jobs.

• Mail order or Internet Sales

• Craft Sales (can be combined with above)

• Freelance Writing

• Gunsmithing

•Locksmithing

• Reloading

• Auto Repair

• Computer Repair

• Knife Making

• Greenhouse / Produce Sales

• Firewood Sales

• Odd Jobs / Handyman

• Welding

• Childcare

You will notice that this list was copied from his article, as I’m getting so lazy I won’t even go through the trouble of condensing or summarizing anymore. Since my one thousand readers will see his link and storm en masse over to his site, and I know he is worried that his five thousand readers aren’t enough and somehow my loyal minions added to this number will solve all his problems, my stealing the list will surely be overlooked. Hopefully he stole the list himself, then we can stimulate the economy by getting a few underemployed lawyers involved and I can give up whatever cash the other parasites in my life don’t steal ( note to humorless lawyers- I was joking, not offering ).

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This is a perfectly respectable list, if we were just worried about a recession. And if we were to believe Obammy, that green shoots are just around the corner, or that the worst we have to worry about is a double dip recession ( this has largely taken over the “green shoots” propaganda as the former was as credible as plastic sheet and duct taping the oxygen out of your room to survive a chemical attack ), or that we are already in a jobless recovery. That is the kind of recovery where everyone is on welfare and Zimbabwe style inflation will at last transport us into a worker utopia first sold to the Ukrainian farmers at the point of Soviet bayonets. Do you really think we are in a recession? Go ask anyone living in Detroit. If you answered, Detroit is the exception, then explain to me how they got the most bailout money outside of the financial sector yet are still transformed into a equatorial African style country? Okay, if your area is actually doing fine for now then, yes, you can play at being in a recession for a little bit longer. But that won’t last too much longer. You need to plan on a Depression business if you want to keep a paycheck coming in a little bit longer, not a Recession business. Nothing on that list will survive into your areas Depression.

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Childcare? Households are going from two incomes to one. Grown children are moving back with their parents, or those on Social Security working and paying a mortgage lose their jobs and then their house they are still paying on. Someone will be home to watch the kids. Welding? Why? The independent farmers and ranchers lose their land, equipment lays around rusting. Hanymen must have a clientele with excess money. Currently that is not a problem as Social Security is generous enough with money to allow the old to pay the young. As oil shoots up in price and becomes unavailable, food prices skyrocket. All the government welfare now goes to food and heating. Family members fix stuff. It might be half-assed, but it is free. Firewood sales only last as long as affordable oil, then the forests are quickly stripped. Greenhouse and produce sales can easily be reproduced by the now unemployed. Remember when oranges used to be a few times a year treat? All fresh winter produce will soon be like that, a luxury. Custom Knives are a luxury that don’t compete with Chinese mass produced crap. Computer repair will only be viable if all electronics from overseas stop shipping. If that becomes the case, you have bigger problems than using a computer. Auto repair is a great business, at first. Then no one can afford to drive.

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Reloading is too easy to do yourself. Locksmithing can be done without or improvised ( a $50 tech house call or a hasp and lock from Home Depot for $10? ). Gunsmithing can be put off, as those armed usual have more than one gun. You will starve waiting for the time guns are life and death items that must be repaired even before groceries are bought. Freelance writing is serving the entertainment needs. Spending on entertainment already well exceeds the level needed for mere escapism now, it will be a cut item from the budget soon. The only thing paying us bloggers now is advertising, and that will get worse. Survivalism is largely entertainment past a very small amount of needed information. Crafts are luxury items for the rich. And mail order sales are not necessities. Plus, the Internet can become heavily taxed and regulated.

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You need to think of what is absolutely critical in a Depression. None of the above apply. I’m not talking about a collapse business. But one that must be used by others regardless of choice while things still hold together. My first guess would be bicycle repair. People are too spread out, living in suburbia. As public services are cut, they will have to have transport to get food and water and medicine. Gas will be too expensive, and the food distribution services will not deliver. Nor will school buses pretty soon, but my guess is that attendance will still be mandatory. As oil imports continue to fall, eventually the area that will be cut from supply ( either through the pricing mechanism or government rationing ) will be personal consumption. Count on it. Insulation and solar heat traps will desperately be needed soon, but my guess is that there is only a small window to make money from it, then it will be do-it-yourself. That should not be a business idea but a way for you to drastically cut costs yourself and thus avoiding the need to earn that money. How about herbs? Come after the collapse, when we all become farmers again, then it will become common knowledge. But through the Depression it should make you money as drugs are replaced. Research contraceptive herbs especially. Those are my ideas of the two rock solid Depression businesses. They take into account oil down and drying up incomes or hyperinflation. Any other ideas?

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