.. electrician? What is Depression proof?
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Technical jobs are only good if the entire pyramid is stable enough to continue. But if it is, then they are the best, you maintain the most value.
The next choice would be a trades job, As for electrician, It is not a terrible choice. But I would likely select some form of steel/concrete work. welder/fitter/rigger can be very transferable. Carpentry is more important that one knows.
I think the most depression proof skill set would be small scale farming/ranching
Bad skill was rancher/farmer in the great depression. They caused the great depression. The Great Depression started from the dust bowl. The dust bowl was caused by farmers changing traditional farming methods by expanding agricultural land, huge fields, much bigger, and using non traditional fertilisers. They hacked away at the land, deforesting, and changing it. Temperature soared, drought, and the dust and plagues of insects. Great depression followed. Vicious cycle. More farmland needed to make money. More dust and more crop failure. Bad skills.
Today it might be different. Except big droughts and insects hitting farmland presently and last year in the Mid West, West, North West?
The idiot down voting should study history.
Well, it is something to consider. But, when I look back at 100 years of my family history, the farm kids did ok compared to city kids. Maybe they needed the city to make big money but there was always good food available on the farm. Maybe they were in areas without drought.
The Great Depression. Wasn't all farmers just a huge swathe of them in certain regions. This caused systemic supply line failures. There was dumb presidents, big shortages. Millions dead. Cannibals. The cannibals ate well.