What is the most recession/depression proof business to be in?

[kimmerspixelated]

Also, do any of you make your living strictly online? If so, are you freelancing, teaching, selling on ebay, blogging, etc.? Curious. Thanks!

[Kitty Herder]

1. Nursing homes? nt

[ElkHunter]

11. Can't say for sure...

...but it's probably no coincidence that people like John Dillinger, Baby Faced Nelson, Bonnie & Clyde, Ma Barker, Machine Gun Kelly and a host of others made names for themselves by robbing banks during the Great Depression of the 30's.

[scarletwoman]

2. A DC politician. (nt)

[kimmerspixelated]

4. Good One!!

[Orrex]

3. Assassin / Mob Enforcer

[Fireweed247]

21. The are definitely in demand these days

:rofl:

And then there is Blackwater...

[BobRossi]

5. Mortician.

People are just dieing to give you their money. ><

[limit18]

6. Undertaker

[AngryAmish]

77. agreed

[Kip Humphrey]

7. Unemployment Counselor, Funeral Director, Oil Company Executive

[Bonobo]

8. Toilet paper manufacturer.

[seabeyond]

62. nope, there are leaves, lol. n/t

[amihol]

9. Suggestion

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[OwnedByFerrets]

18. For Least Liked Nation???

[uppityperson]

22. How about you quit spamming and stick to the topic?

[coriolis]

30. That website is known to be malicious.

...

[amihol]

31. ?

I wasn't spamming just suggested it but that's all... And why do you think it's malicious?What do you mean by that?

[coriolis]

40. It's loaded up with spyware, etc. Check with any reputable A/V site.

...

[amihol]

49. :DD You're kind of strange!

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[amihol]

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[Ikonoklast]

10. Loan Shark

Grower Of Medicinal Herbs
Blackjack Dealer
Thief

[NNN0LHI]

12. Liquor store owner

[Mugu]

13. Liquor store has my vote.

I'm doing my part to keep my local liquor store profitable.

Regards, Mugu

[Robb]

37. Thirded

Good times and bad.

[MercutioATC]

39. I was going to say bar owner...

People drink when they're doing well and they drink when they're not doing well...alcohol is pretty recession-proof.

[NNN0LHI]

48. Tavern owner has to deal intimately with the public. A drunk public

I would stick with the carryout business.

Don

[Coyote_Bandit]

14. Ummmm

Any necessary trade that you can render as a self employed person with both minimum investment of capital and minimum exposure to liability, Even better if there is no significant competition especially from a large corporation. Look to be on your own doing work that is not glamorous. Hard, dirty work that may be dangerous. Stuff other folks can't, won't or simply do not want to do.

[morgan2]

15. I'd have to say drug dealer or senator

[Zynx]

16. Repo-man.

[NNN0LHI]

24. Doesn't pay enough to get shot at for

[Rhythm]

17. Funeral industry

It's the one thing that samply cannot be avoided in most places.

[Atman]

19. Political advertising

.

[Selatius]

20. Repossession. You do tons of business when people start defaulting. n/t

[Stuart G]

23. Besides the death industry, or the sick industry...auto mechanic of course.

[Warpy]

25. Grocers and diner owners did OK in the last Depression

because they could eat what didn't sell....and did.

[Lady President]

26. Prison Guard or Funeral Director

Without decent employment opportunities people will deal, steal, and die. A job in a prison or a funeral home is the place to be.

[Canuckistanian]

27. Firearms -GUARANTEED recession-proof

In fact, the MORE recession, the better your business.

And in case of total societal breakdown, you'll STILL be in business.

[lunatica]

28. General repair and handyman abilities

Probably thinks like baking bread on a daily basis. People have to eat and bread is a must and will be affordable long after other foods are off the charts. Becoming a taylor/seamstress to mend clothes. It would be an added bonus to take old clothes and create new clothes out of them. Swapmeets peddler of recyclables that can be used again and again, especially children's clothes, toys and cribs, etc., and of course it will help to be able to fix all these things.

Handyman for odd job repairs on houses and appliances.

And the shoe repair stores will be back in vogue big time. People will get their shoes re-soled and repaired rather than throw them away.

[Blue_In_AK]

29. I feel pretty good with my profession.

I'm a legal transcriptionist, working at home. The worse things get, the more crime there is; ergo, more trials for me to transcribe. Crime pays -- ME.

My youngest daughter is also in a good profession. She's working at our credit union in the "delinquent loans" department.

[DemReadingDU]

56. policeman/cop

There is always going to be crime

[Subdivisions]

32. I work exclusively online...

I am the design and marketing manager of a major online solar and wind products supplier and we had a very good March. As for recession proof, hard to say. We're in a unique position. We offer long-term, albeit pricey, solution to electric energy needs. Pricey though a solar electric system may be, let's put it perspective. For the price of a Chevy Suburban, we can supply a complete solar power system that will produce electricity for up to 40 years depending on the equipment used.

A good system can pay for itself in about 10 years, leaving the balance of the system's life providing free electricity, the excess of which can (in some places) be sold to the electric utility at a profit. Also, there many state and federal rebate and tax incentives that can reduce the initial investment, lowering the pay-back time.

I'm not getting the sense that we're being adversely affected by the economic downturn, at least not yet. We're in a unique position. Climate change demands a look at our products and the solar power industry, which will bode well for us. Also, we market to the oil and gas industry as they use copius solar power products.

You can be certain that I am watching the economic and energy situations very closely. Fortunately, the nature of my job makes it very hard for my clients to release me from my duties because if they were to vacate my position, their website, and therefore their business, will quickly succumb to the competition as they sink into Internet oblivion.

[fed-up]

33. BF is an organic greens farmer-business at local farmer's markets is INCREASING :) nt

[Subdivisions]

38. Want to know where to find local growers near you?

Go here:

http://www.localharvest.org/

[Mabus]

34. Bankruptcy lawyer

Their business goes up whenever the economy goes down.

[Jed Dilligan]

35. Fleabag hotels and motels

[Stinky The Clown]

86. How about the flea wrangler?

I should think the guy that leases the fleas makes out okay, too. :)

[DainBramaged]

36. Grocery store owner

[Initech]

41. Hit man / con artist

[PA Democrat]

42. Prison guard

Seems like prisons are one of the few growth industries out there.:-(

[DemReadingDU]

57. policeman/cop

there is always going to be crime

[1]

43. as silvio would say...

"certain aspects of the entertainment industry, and this thing we do..."

[taught_me_patience]

44. liquor store

auto repair
porn
fast food
cereal
health insurance
auto insurance

[alarimer]

45. Casket sales.

Seriously I think funeral directing must be the most recession-proof profession out there.

[Ghost in the Machine]

46. Religion....

The scared people are gonna be shoveling their money to gawd so they can get to heaven...


*Reverend Ghost at your service, how may I help you?*

Now now, my child, all will be well. Just increase your tithings a little bit to make up for the devalued dollar and you'll be right back in gawd's good graces. Dig deep, my child, the price for saving your soul is only limited by your imagination and/or your willingness to sacrifice worldly goods for yourself while giving all you can to gawd.


**passes around the collection tray**

[trof]

47. Local farmers

They are about to become VERY important again.
Think fuel to transport food.

[Two Americas]

55. starting to see that

Talking to small farmers around the country this past week about the coming season, we are starting to see the effect of fuel prices, with expanding access to local markets for small farmers.

The powerful forces in the country arrayed against small farmers and trying to crush them, however, should not be underestimated. We should also not over-rate the importance of farmers' markets, which are more of a boutique entertainment venue for a small percentage of the consumers than they are a serious component of agriculture or food delivery.

[SoCalDem]

50. Plumber

:)

[flvegan]

52. Foreclosure law firm.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

53. easy...public school teacher... n/t

[TexasBushwhacker]

76. Yeah, you might have to move where the kids are though

When Detroit went through it's first major waves of layoffs and plant closings, people had to move where jobs were, and they took their kids with them. I started teaching in 1981, and that year half of our new teachers in TEXAS were from Michigan!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

81. i hear ya...

but i have never seen a teacher LOSE their job due to economy...move yes, lose no.

sP

[CK_John]

54. RePo field or pawnshop owner. n/t

[masmdu]

58. Online Futures Trading SP emini..."Good" or "Bad" times are good...Taught myself to do it in a year

Not recommended unless you are willing to spend lots of time figuring out how to use Technical Analysis and money management techniques.

However, if you do it can work well. If you don't you will lose you shirt (pants, socks...etc)

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

59. I'm thinking I shoulda' stuck with being a "shrink"!

Nobody can honestly talk to anybody, anymore, because what's suppose to be "American" life isn't what's ACTUALLY being lived. It's pretty fucking awful to compete for sustenance of an illusion never proven to be true but advertised as the absolute judgment of self-worth.

I am talking about "mainstream",...not the fragments of our culture struggling to sustain an identity beyond yet inside it.

[Initech]

60. Ass-widening technology

[TexasBushwhacker]

61. Automobile maintenance and repair

When the economy is good, people are trading in their old cars and getting new ones. You get to do the required maintenance to keep the new car's warranty in effect. During times when the economy is down, people hold onto their cars longer, and they require more maintenance to keep in running condition.

[Greyhound]

63. Drugs, law, and entertainment. n/t

[Lost-in-FL]

64. Funeral Directors and Police.

I read once in a book about the great depression.

[AP]

65. entertainment, insurance and mortician.

[Avalux]

66. pharmaceutical/drug development.

People always need drugs.

[kimmerspixelated]

83. That's what Big Pharma wants everyone to believe.

[leftofthedial]

67. skinhead thug,

working for Blackwater, TSA or some other brownshirt group

[mmonk]

68. Funeral director?

Emergency medicine? Barber?

[stevedeshazer]

69. Panhandler. Definitely a growth industry. 0% tax bracket except for your local sales tax.

No chance of being forced to declare bankruptcy.

Wide-open capitalism. Just ask for money.

Wait -- we already have Libertarians.

Pay up, folks. Your local Interstate freeway needs repair.

[CANDO]

70. Healthcare, Teaching

eom

[tama]

71. Hippie business

aka subsistence farming in a self-reliant ecovillage.

[kimmerspixelated]

84. Good for you!

[devilgrrl]

72. Shoe Repair

eom

[Alexander]

73. Prostitute.

I'm surprised nobody said that.

Then again, I suppose "DC politician" comes pretty close, and that's upthread.

[DrFever]

74. Oil, Trust me on this one.

Every year I spend more and more time at my job designing oil derricks. I'm up to 65 hours a week now. People are always gonna need oil, and we aren't gonna run out in my lifetime.

[TexasBushwhacker]

75. Having lived in and around that business for most of my life ...

I can tell you that's not necessarily so. You're designing derricks now because so many people lost their jobs or were forced into early retirement when the the oil business was in the dumper. They've gone through that cycle several times. The businesses that survive the down times get overwhelmed with work when the times are good. If it means more income for you right now, enjoy it AND save it. At this point, the higher oil goes, and the more people are concerned about global warming, the more we will search for alternatives.

[kimmerspixelated]

85. Do you invest in oil stock, if so which one?

[ThomWV]

78. Pharmaceuticals

A person will spend their last dime on medicine.

[kimmerspixelated]

87. Isn't it sad!

[Obamanaut]

79. self delete - career already posted. oops. nt

[dysfunctional press]

80. nursing & healthcare, home security.

nt

[Fumesucker]

82. Given that a $500 used japanese midsize streetbike

Gets better gas mileage than a Prius..

Maybe motorcycle mechanic?

[kimmerspixelated]

88. Yes, I'm thinking that will suddenly become quite lucrative.

[backscatter712]

90. I just bought a bicycle a couple weeks ago.

Bicycles are much, much cheaper and easier to maintain than cars.

That and you can't get better gas mileage...

[apocalypsehow]

89. Drug dealer.

n/t.