What industry to get into?

[chrispattinson]

Considering the current economic climate, what's the best industry to be looking to work in. I can vouch that automotive is not where it's at.

[Lee]

oil is about as bouyant as anything at the moment
I agree with the comment about the automotive industry, when I took my car in last Friday for a download, they said they were only doing warranty work now and had only sold 2 cars in the last month, if it wasn't for recalls on the vogue diffs then they would have nothing in. Landrover have also stopped production of the 4.2 V8 engine :-( because people are scared of it and if you want a new landrover you have to cough up a 50% cash deposit before they place the order.

[DCM]

nowhere is totally secure, civil service is reasonalbe, if you can get on a permanent contract, and not a yearly contract.

[millzy]

Originally Posted by DCM

nowhere is totally secure, civil service is reasonalbe, if you can get on a permanent contract, and not a yearly contract.

im at the civil service and most of our contracts are permanent, but are rocking horse shit to get now

[footey]

i would imagine computers must be a good 1 as they are everywhere now

[Chrislong]

Originally Posted by chrispattinson

Considering the current economic climate, what's the best industry to be looking to work in. I can vouch that automotive is not where it's at.

Bayliff or debt collection.

Have you had bad news at work this week?

[bandit]

Originally Posted by Chrislong

Bayliff or debt collection.

Have you had bad news at work this week?

your not far off the mark as this industry is going strong , debt management etc

[chrispattinson]

No, no bad news, I think I'll be ok for the medium term, just wondering where the next move would be???

[Chrislong]

Originally Posted by chrispattinson

No, no bad news, I think I'll be ok for the medium term, just wondering where the next move would be???

Well with unemployment rising, many will be looking for the easy answers - taxi driving, delivery driver etc etc. Temp/contract work seems to be offering lower wages as they simply have so many people begging for any position, probably different for more skilled/niche contract work though.

So do think outside of the box.

Other secure jobs are: RAF, Navy, Army. Other than that, id just hold tight and pray you come out the other side of this recession still employed.

[bigoggy]

i deliver car parts for a motor factor and we have had our hours cut from 8 to 6 a day. lots of small shops and garages shuting down lately

[90dug]

Anything enviromental at the moment big business or power generation.

[markwilliamson2001]

Get into IT in schools... I am and its 'steady' money. Computers AND civil service!

Mark

[rcluke]

be a sparky mate

[Smartalec]

Originally Posted by chrispattinson

Considering the current economic climate, what's the best industry to be looking to work in. I can vouch that automotive is not where it's at.

Drug dealer

[jim76]

Originally Posted by Smartalec

Drug dealer

that's how you paid for that second Shark then!

[mole2k]

I wouldn't suggest being a self-employed photographer, people aren't overly interested in spending much money these days on luxury items like photograph :/

[Southwell]

Originally Posted by markwilliamson2001

Get into IT in schools... I am and its 'steady' money. Computers AND civil service!

Mark

With the added bonus of retarded users, o wait, thats not a bonus. Man im bitter this week

[MK999]

Rubbish, we used to run rings around our IT department at school, had games loaded on the local machines with admin rights etc

[Southwell]

Originally Posted by MK999

Rubbish, we used to run rings around our IT department at school, had games loaded on the local machines with admin rights etc

Obviously mickey mouse, not even admin have those rights on our network

[MK999]

Definitely a complete bunch of muppets, if a comp crashed or whatever we usually had to fix it for them

Used to send those little pop up network messages to the head of IT, confused the hell out of him. I forget how you do them now, command in command prompt somewhere... once we even sent a couple round the computer room saying they have breached the terms of use and should report to the head of IT immediately, was pretty funny watching people pack up and shuffle out