Is anyone working anymore?
Engineers, entrepreneurs, soldiers, sailors, air force, doctors, nurses, teachers, college professors, judges (especially bankruptcy judges), lawyers (especially bankruptcy and property lawyers), court reporters, police, firemen, locksmiths, gun store owners, mechanics (people are keeping cars and repairing them rather than purchasing new ones), tire shop owners and car part owners (see above), farmers, ranchers, miners (especially gold and other metals), oil field workers and geologists, weapons manufacturers of all sorts from bullets to tanks, repair people of any skill in any and all categories, remodeling companies, medical information service people (filling out forms which will quadruple soon, booming industry), grocery store owners and employees, property management companies and apartment locating companies, bar owners (where there's no smoking bans), liquor and beer makers, liquor store owners, Scientific American (the people who make the set-top boxes no one needs that the US government paid billions for up front), drug manufacturers and salesmen, geriatric care specialists, diesel engine mechanics and manufacturers.
Now that's the short list. When the economy changes, some sectors which haven't done well will suddenly do better than other sectors. That's the nature of capitalism.
The problem is that people have trained and educated themselves for sectors which will fail, or have immersed themselves in businesses which are solely dependent on a 'boom' mentality, like Starbucks. No one needs to spend $5 for a cup of coffee. That was a stupid business plan, but it, amazingly, worked because people wanted to show their conspicuous consumption. I was just at a recently foreclosed home today, and there were Starbucks coffee cups there. These people were losing their home, but still paid more for a cup of coffee than what they could pay if they made it themselves for two months or more.
Who won't be working:
Construction workers, anyone associated with auto sales, specialty retailers like 'Fanco' (people will go to Lowe's instead and get the same fan for 75% less, conspicuous consumption is dead for another 60 years), coffee shops which don't sell donuts, technology people of every stripe (no one wants the 'next best' anymore), salesmen (this will be the hardest hit sector by far, just like during the great depression), welders, pipe fitters, concrete trades, any construction businesses like roofing tile manufactures, etc., durable goods manufacturers (everyone will repair than replace a dryer, fridge, etc.), FedEx and similar delivery services, the USPS, restaurants and waiters, casinos, writers, artists, sculptors, pest control, dentists and hygienists, tourist workers, ski resort workers, lifeguards, hair stylists, nail painters, make-up sales people, clothing sales, fashion designers, interior designers, art galleries, antique galleries, kid's birthday party locations, jewelers, furriers, limo drivers, taxi drivers, shoe salesmen, etc., etc.
Who is 'working' is politicians, making everything worse than it should be.
