Jobs for the Apocalypse

 So Kim du Toit has a post up about evergreen jobs.

For some reason, I think that an electrician is a more durable trade than a gardener — it certainly will be, going forward — and likewise, a metalworker (blacksmith, welder, etc.) will have a better go than an innkeeper.  (I know:  there wasn’t much call for electricians back in the sixteenth century, but I’ll bet that metalworkers were in high demand.)  And since we’ve moved away from leeches and trepanning, I’m pretty sure that a doctor would have a more durable trade than a wall covering specialist.

There are basically four kinds of trade, methinks (and there is some overlap, certainly over time):

I couldn't help but read this, and think back to Mike Rowe's interview where he said "Don't follow your dreams.  Follow the MONEY, and then you can fulfill your dreams."

Looking at the list laid out by Mr. du Toit, the Mrs and I fall into several of his categories in skills that we have that we can use should everything fall apart.  Obviously, soldiering, given my current occupation.  Farming (small scale, I can't run a 500 acre farm), cooking, baking, brewing, innkeeping, and entertaining, and a few others.  In short, we can make ourselves valuable no matter what happens.

And let's say that nothing bad happens in the next few years.  Hypothetical situation, I know, but still, play along with me.  I retire, move back home, what do I do to earn my daily bread?  Well, I already have a list of things I can do, and all I have to do is refine them into a business plan and I'm off to the races.  

Just something to keep in mind, especially if you have relatives who are looking at going hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt in order to attend a university.  I've met far too many university grads who are nothing but poorly trained fry cooks, given that they're not actually useful in any kind of real world application.  

Dear Wisconsin Democrats

Take your public employee unions, your protests and your recall elections, and shove them right up your ass.  They'll fit up there if you tilt your head just so.  In the meantime, Gov. Walker is going to make sure that Wisconsin has a fighting chance at survival.

Earlier this month, analysts were dismayed by the nation’s anemic job creation numbers. On Thursday, state officials were pleased as they released data that showed more than half of the net new jobs added in the US in June came from Wisconsin.

Remember, if Walker and the Republican legislature had not pushed their bills and gotten the job done, Wisconsin would be sucking hind tit with a majority of the country.  Pass this along to your Democrat friends, if you have any.

Oh, Day-um!

Ok, fine, yeah, correlation doesn't equal causation, but there's no other way to read this report about how Obamacare pretty much killed job creation in this country.

Business owners aren't stupid.  They have to make a profit, otherwise they go out of business.  Obamacare is going to kill their profit margin.  It's going to kill their budget.  And it's going to kill their business.  So they aren't hiring, because they cannot hire without the possibility of being run out of business thanks to Obamacare's regulation.

Read the whole thing.  Don't expect to see the economy rebound any time soon while Obama and the rest of the Marxist Morons are in charge.