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Heavy equipment operators seem to be in small towns and in high demand. Also highway workers are everywhere. Our town of 4,000 still needs hospital workers, lawyers, therapists and there are many government workers. And good mechanics. The guy with the tire store is always busy.
What they don't need is more art galleries, retail shops, restaurants or masseuses!
Where I'm from theres a lot of manufacturing. We have 3 Sargento plants, Land o Lakes, John Deere, Ariens, Worthington, Hennings Cheese, maybe not all in Chilton but a short commute can get you some pretty good paying work.
Then there's always grocery and fast food.
Always remember about small towns/rural areas...........if any self employed business was profitable, why hasn't any locals doing it ?
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There's typically a variety of reasons other than the (perfectly legitimate) "lack of work" you cite.
An example that comes to mind is the local butcher shops:
When (if) my health improves I intend to get the training, there's 2 in my area, they are both scheduled for months, and quite frankly.... they suck.
People just use them because there's not a better option.
I do a little now.... I don't want to do it for a living (I could) but I'm just going to do it for free meat.
Large shops.... heavily regulated.
Mobil butcher shops are a FDA exception.
Around here, medical and associated support services. The hospital systems have internal IT, finance, and various other support staff. We have one Fortune 500 chemical company that has a lot of engineers. Schools require people with degrees.
The thing about teaching in rural areas and small towns (which I've done, and was also a K-12 student in a small town district with parents employed in small town districts and a parent who has served over twenty years on a rural consolidated school board), is that the openings tend to be irregular. There generally are people who are from the area who intentionally plan to teach in the area, who sit in positions for years. There are young/new teachers who wouldn't necessarily choose the location, but take the foot in the door/first teaching experience, but small town life isn't ultimately for them. Overall, the teachers who have local connections are the ones most likely to stay for the long term.
Salaries can be lower, depending on circumstances, but so is COL, generally. There are politics of identity involved, often...not just in getting the job, but in dealing with students and who's related to who and who's parents are what in the community, which is magnified more than it is at a larger system, where there is more anonymity, and parents who are community bigwigs or notorious on the other end of the spectrum are more dime a dozen.
The thing about teaching in rural areas and small towns (which I've done, and was also a K-12 student in a small town district with parents employed in small town districts and a parent who has served over twenty years on a rural consolidated school board), is that the openings tend to be irregular. There generally are people who are from the area who intentionally plan to teach in the area, who sit in positions for years. There are young/new teachers who wouldn't necessarily choose the location, but take the foot in the door/first teaching experience, but small town life isn't ultimately for them. Overall, the teachers who have local connections are the ones most likely to stay for the long term.
Salaries can be lower, depending on circumstances, but so is COL, generally. There are politics of identity involved, often...not just in getting the job, but in dealing with students and who's related to who and who's parents are what in the community, which is magnified more than it is at a larger system, where there is more anonymity, and parents who are community bigwigs or notorious on the other end of the spectrum are more dime a dozen.
Our Daughter-In-Law landed a good job teaching at her hometown high school. Wages are not high, but still pretty good given the low COL. She was renting a nice 3bdrm house for $450/month. We thought she was doing very well for herself until she married our son, who is in the Army. She had never left the state, and had a good career lined up in her hometown. She had to quit that job though to be with him somewhere else.
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