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- payroll workers to pay people who are actually working
- accounts payable workers to pay the bills
- accounts receivable workers to bill and collect revenue
The one profession that always is hiring is over the road semi drivers.
( certainly not a profession most can handle )
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Originally Posted by NJBest
Is driving a semi something that most people cannot learn to do?
The over the road stuff is tough, away from your family. The pay is not as great as the company recruiters would leave you to believe. Most people can learn to do it, although I'd say it really takes about 3-4 yrs to really be proficient at it. I'm speaking from experience, I started driving a tractor-trailer about 8yrs ago at age 52. I don't drive over the road though, fortunately I drive locally, home every night, (day actually because most of the work is at night). My longest trip is about 500 miles in a day.
If you look at some of the ads, they'll say "no touch" freight, meaning you don't have to load/unload, some say a percentage, 98% but again the ads can't always be believed. Due to various factors turnover in the industry is 100%. If you really are interested in it, check out Overdrive magazine, they have a website Truckersreport.com with information on trends, etc. in the trucking industry.
Also hardly anyone talks on the CB anymore.
I'm in the midst of a career change, and one of the thoughts that is continuously swirling in my brain is whether or not there is enough work either in my current or future field to sustain job demand for days, weeks, years.
So ... I started thinking, what are the jobs where there is always demand for people to be working, where there is always something to be done, all year round?
The one thing I came up with was working at McDonalds. There's always a steady stream of customers at McDonalds day and night, 365 days a year, and they always need people to serve food or ring the register. They don't have to advertise or win clients. You can be assured that when you come into work on Monday, you won't be told, "There's nothing really going on right now. Read some technical manuals and take some online certification courses and charge it to overhead."
Surprised nobody mentioned plumbing. Am I right? I mean, people never stop sh*tting.
The maintenance aspect of plumbing will always be needed but the construction and installation part goes with construction. As construction is slow, so are plumbers.
Crude hauling in the oilfields pays well and continues long after the boom ends...
Someone with a new CDL can easily make 70K plus their first year and close to 100k the next and have full benefits right away, home every night and one or two days off each week.
Crude hauling in the oilfields pays well and continues long after the boom ends...
Someone with a new CDL can easily make 70K plus their first year and close to 100k the next and have full benefits right away, home every night and one or two days off each week.
Do you have evidence to the contrary?
I have worked in natural gas. So I have an idea of the skewed depiction of oil/gas as a dream job where somebody with no skills or qualifications easily collects six figures and sits at home half the year.
But that wasn't the point of my reply.
Oil and natural gas are NON-renewable resources. Clearly, there won't always be consistent work for them, at least in one place.
If you already have McD experience, Chick-fil-A would be nice. I heard somewhere that a lot of their previous managers join the franchise and have their own shops now. Don't know whether it's true or not.
Maintenance. Equipment and machines are always breaking down. They have services supporting various brands that drive all around fixing these things. They charge a pretty steep hourly rate to make up for the slow times, but inevitably, someone will call.
Other maintenance related duties can be a bit more laborious and frankly, a PITA. Waste and sludge removal... Nobody wants to do it, which means you can name your own price under some circumstances. Even still, after spending enough time in that role, most people would rather move on to something else, and there's good reason for that.
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There's always a steady stream of customers at McDonalds day and night, 365 days a year, and they always need people to serve food or ring the register. They don't have to advertise or win clients. You can be assured that when you come into work on Monday, you won't be told, "There's nothing really going on right now. Read some technical manuals and take some online certification courses and charge it to overhead."
