.. 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.
Thank you for a good description. But didn't it force regulation. Had to adopt quotas, to try to make up shortfalls, later, rotation or what to grow? Or was that later, after ww2? Didn't a lot more land get seized as a result. It turned entire places into ghost towns.
It's not the first time the government has sold off some of the same region either. Wasn't there something recent in the Mid West? Offering cheaper land rights.