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How to survive the recession - list of fastest growing jobs in US during the period 1929-1933
- osipov 19y ago>>Persons engaged in liquor stores: up 335 percent Something tells me that that kind of growth had more to do with abolishing of prohibition, rather than with an economic depression. Although I can't deny that alcohol is attractive to those down on their luck.
- nostrademons 19y agoSame goes for the gas station attendants and repair services. I suspect they had more to do with the rise of the automobile than the general economic climate. The analogous job today is "dot-com entrepreneur", not "gas station attendant". ;-)
- neilc 19y agoThis article is silly. For one thing, the economy has changed an enormous amount in the past 70 years. The jobs that did well during the Great Depression may well not be the ones that do well now -- the jobs that do well now might not even have existed 70 years ago. More importantly, choosing your career based on transient properties of the economy is a terrible idea. Do what you love, and make sure you're good at it; the rest will work itself out.
- astine 19y agoI think that the one item that made sense was the growth in second hand stores. With more people hawking goods to get by, it makes sense that pawnshops would experience a boom. I doubt that this upcoming recession will cause a sufficient rise in hawking to make this profitable however.
- apathy 19y agoeBay already has the market cornered anyhow
- pchristensen 19y agostuff isn't worth as much now as it was then (relative to income, wealth, etc)