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chrispattinson 02-12-2008 03:52 PM

What industry to get into?
 
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 02-12-2008 03:54 PM

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 02-12-2008 04:10 PM

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

millzy 02-12-2008 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by DCM (Post 183620)
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 02-12-2008 04:15 PM

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

Chrislong 02-12-2008 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by chrispattinson (Post 183611)
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 02-12-2008 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Chrislong (Post 183627)
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 02-12-2008 04:26 PM

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

Chrislong 02-12-2008 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by chrispattinson (Post 183632)
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 02-12-2008 07:33 PM

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

90dug 02-12-2008 07:43 PM

Anything enviromental at the moment big business or power generation.

markwilliamson2001 02-12-2008 07:57 PM

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

Mark

rcluke 02-12-2008 07:58 PM

be a sparky mate:thumbsup:

Smartalec 02-12-2008 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by chrispattinson (Post 183611)
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 :thumbsup:

jim76 02-12-2008 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Smartalec (Post 183691)
Drug dealer :thumbsup:

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

mole2k 02-12-2008 08:08 PM

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 02-12-2008 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by markwilliamson2001 (Post 183689)
Get into IT in schools...:D 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 :lol:

MK999 02-12-2008 08:18 PM

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

Southwell 02-12-2008 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by MK999 (Post 183701)
Rubbish, we used to run rings around our IT department at school, had games loaded on the local machines with admin rights etc :thumbsup:

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

MK999 02-12-2008 08:34 PM

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

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 :thumbsup:


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