So, I’m looking for a career change since I’m probably going to move to a city of approx 200K people. What’s something that everyone needs either it’s simple or more complex?
Not interested in funeral services 😛
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Look into the trades.
Rock solid employability, especially if you’re competent in self-employment.
You get to experience, 1st-hand, middle-class & upper-middle-class prejudice/contempt/denigration-programming, too
( which is useful karmically: many of us are unconsciously-wired to buy-into class-system-based-“validity”/status,
and facing into karma, or, as Yehoshua “Jesus” benJoseph said the same thing, “taking up one’s cross”, as a means of destroying the unconscious-ignorances that undermine our Eternities/Souls/CellsOfGod in THEIR evolution is strategically wise, see?
I don’t want my Soul/ChildOfGod EVER getting caught in some life due to its unconsciousness, ever again!
Rip the unconsciousness-rule “strategy” right out from the ground, you know?
I needed 7y of outright-homelessness to finally crack my unconscious-mind’s sticking-to-class-prejudice,
and I still haven’t ripped out all of the remnants,
but the core of it cracked a decade ago, and my life is free-er as a result, the Eternity I’m just a little participant in, is no longer “stuck on a rock, in the rapids” of Eternity/karma…
Facing into karma, as a means of freeing one’s Soul can be immensely empowering.
Also, smart tradespeople outcompete many, being able to make/earn their economic-autonomy much quicker than the “professional” rat-race/treadmill people do.
( partly that has to do with a good trade ticket taking only 1-2y, whereas a 4y university-degree is … worthless, economically, worse, it is tons-of-debt. )
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If you’re willing to deal with the later costs on your body, learn a trade.
Plumber, electrician, HVAC. Everyone needs something serviced, it’s just getting your name out/getting with a good company. Bonus, these things can follow you anywhere. Big city to small townships.
Welding is another solid one. Good welders can be in high demand.
Again, be forewarned, take care of yourself now, and be ready for it to catch up with you down the line. It’s rough on your body.
Only thing with welding over plumber, HVAC and electrician is they are likely going to be needed at a specific location ie industrial plant, construction or automotive stuff they may or may not be in that town and he has to travel to get there.
Came here to say electrician. Or anything related to utility (gas, electric, water, Internet, transportation) maintenance. These are often “we need someone 365 days a year” jobs, because they are literally the ones maintaining infrastructure for the rest of us, but those jobs also pay well and are in demand everywhere there are people.
If you’re not qualified for that stuff, consider starting with something like Flagging/traffic control. You’ll start as the poor sap holding a sign in the rain, but you can study and eventually become the person who designs/approves the traffic control plans, etc etc. Pretty much all utility work requires traffic control.
Surveying/Right of Way/GIS, if you’d rather work in a cube
Starting during the Great Depression, my grandmother insisted that every one of her children become either a teacher or a nurse, because those were the only people who were never out of work during the Depression. Both can be hard jobs (in different ways), but if you’re looking for something where you’re constantly employable, that’s where I’d start looking.
Like my grandmother used to say, there will always be a need for teachers and medical professionals.
Not promising either are easy to attain or will pay well though, much less have good working conditions.
Good luck!
what is your goal? Are you planning on moving to a different city and employeer every year, or just want to settle down in aspecific place?
there are lots of jobs. However some places have specifit needs. Some jobs can be worked remote from anywhere. Some jobs depend on word of mouth so you can’t move after getting the skills.
Settle down there. Remote jobs seem interesting though usually require an IT degree.
Garbage men. You can shut down a city pretty well by not collecting any garbage. But I hope you’re not in the USA. The way I hear it it’s mostly really hard dangerous manual labour in that backwards country.
I worked summers in high school with my town street maintenance department, shoveling asphalt in the Virginia heat and other assorted fun tasks.
One day the trash department was short a body and my boss volunteered me to help them for the day. It was the single hardest work day of my life, and we were done with our route by noon. I have no end of respect for the people that do that job.
In what country is it not?
In a city with no prominent industry, people will always needs healthcare, childcare, food, and maintenance on their belongings.
Healthcare: doctor, nurse practitioner, nurse, dentist, dental hygienist. Skin and hair care might be stretching the category, but everyone needs haircuts.
Childcare: teacher, ECE, nanny. Big spectrum here from no training required to professionally registered.
Food: production, supply, distribution, and sales. So farmer (but that’s capital intensive), food maker (baker, chef, cook, butcher) or distributor or seller.
Maintenance: vehicles (tires, oil changes, body shop, parts, detailing), homes (carpenter, painter, gas tech, electrician, window installer, roofer, landscaper), appliances (appliance technician), power equipment (mechanic, blade sharpening).
Probably more, but that should be a pretty decent list to start with, and all should be pretty portable no matter where you go, save for certain licenses that may be specific to a state or province.
I don’t know if he’s making good money or anything but in my town of around 100k there is one guy who is a bit of a jack of all trades (and to me it seems he could be a master as well, but I wouldn’t know). He does stuff like copying keys, leatherwork, sharpening knives and so on. This is the guy you go to if you need some more obscure thing done. Might be something for you if you like that sort of stuff.
Nearly every single business either employs a full time CPA or uses a CPA firm to check their books.
Hand jobs and cheeseburgers
Does the city of $200K have advertisements for city jobs? Rather than trying to be universally employable, maybe cater to where you actually are/will be?
Just one word: plastics.
Home Inspector. Every home sale needs one, they cost 400-600 hundred. You are not liable for anything missed or that can go wrong in the future. Just need your ladder and flashlight
Do you know any CAD? Civil is desperate for CAD drafters and designers. Doubled my pay. I design Substations now.
How much do you make? What were you doing before?
Do you really need 200,000 customers? Why not target something that enough people need to support you?
Like if you can find something 100 people in that city need, you’re fine.
