20 Industries Where Jobs Are Coming Back

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I've been unemployed for 3 of the last 5 years. Up until 2005, I was always employed. All but one job loss I experienced was economic related.
Nearly all states do not offer new job skill training for educated people, but they're more than happy to give me food stamps, Medicaid, unemployment, and other aid. Just because you have a degree like me doesn't guarantee that you can find gainful employment.
I would like to see all states offer new skills and job training for ALL unemployment benefit recipients to enhance, become current, or start a new career where one career is no longer profitable, not just to a select few who never went beyond high school or became disabled by SSA standards.
If I could afford it, I would go back to school and change my profession. But I won't take out a student loan. That's the biggest government/private sector scam out there. And I don't qualify for grants.
Another issue the workforce is facing is the fact that few companies are willing to train and keep employees any more. We have become the first expendable asset. Perhaps companies should rethink their modus operandi and give employees a reason to stay longer.
My brother worked for Verizon for a quarter century in upper management, but he had to take a demotion and relocate across the country in order to stay employed and keep his retirement. Too few companies value trustworthy and loyal employees, and so as workers we keep looking for that one company that shows how much it values our services.
So, after my last job loss, I decided to follow my lifelong dream and start my own business. That way, the only person who fires me - is me! Hey, it's not any less stable than my current circumstances, and the potential rewards are far greater than any podunk, cheap corporation will ever offer. So, I'll take my chances. I give all of you big corps a high one-finger salute! -{ And to the rest of you, good luck in the job market. I really mean it. After 35 years of working for the man, I've decided to BE THE MAN!!!

Jeff of UT 11:10PM November 15, 2010

I am a highly educated, very skilled professional and have many years of experience in the information technology (IT) field working in very large data centers.
Now, according to your research, I'm being offered waiter jobs, garbage man jobs, clothing and department sales person/shelf stocking jobs, and the rest of the menial jobs listed. Not only that, but you say the unemployment agencies need more people. That must mean more people are going to be unemployed.
I was laid off because my company was bought by the French and my salary was supposedly too high.
So now my job is now being performed by a French nationalist who receives per diem (for being in a foreign country), he gets a housing allowance, and he keeps his salary free and clear without having to pay taxes. This is another high tech job our county has lost to a foreign nation.
My salary didn’t come close to what they are paying him when you figure in his benefits. And I PAY TAXES.
Okay with your numbers there is what you could call a 9% increase in jobs but they are not the kind of jobs that will support America and look like jobs illegal aliens are probably taking.
Maybe I should be garbage man, at least I get to ride on the truck and see the world.

Dean of TX 7:24PM November 15, 2010

Every 4 years (election year) the start of new construction projects slows down due to everyone waiting to see who will be the new President and what changes he will bring with him. More jobs were loss because no one knew what Obama was going to do. He's views were not known. The gains made in Management, support staff, and trade crafts show that BIG money still does not know what to expect from Obama. Until BIG Money knows what Obama true plans are for the country, unemployed people like me will continue to be unemployed.

T Mitcham of TX 6:32PM November 15, 2010

"You can't blame a person who has inherited a mess" What? Sure you can. The Internet Bubble exploded six month before George Bush took office. The mess Bush inherited from Clinton was all but forgotten and Clinton's time in office is spoken of as if were the good times.
So blame away on Obama. What is fair to have done to Bush is certainly fair to do to Obama.
And as for "most concerned elected official": Surely you are joking? Concerned about who? Goldman Sachs and their former executives? Big corporations? Just who do you think this guy is concerned about?

Baz Bastein of MA 12:21PM November 15, 2010

The current President is, or should be considered one of the most concerned elected official we have had in a long time. The former PRES. Should fork over his salary and retirement, and put it in the funding for those who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.

love you blue of TX 9:57AM November 15, 2010

I have seen data that shows job losses increasing before our current President was elected. Since then, jobs have been coming back; albeit slowly.
You can't blame a person who has inherited a mess.

Eric Wyckoff of MD 11:33AM November 14, 2010

I love Rick Newman's articles, so this is no reflection on him.
That being said...this is nothing new. The career areas here...include plenty of miserable ways to occupy one's time and make a living.
Mining. Selling some widget. Customer service for two-dollars an hou in a cubicle.
Federal jobs are relative...some are exciting and fulfilling, some are for individuals happy to have a steady 9-5 with holiday's off and a pension.
Point is...if you're educated, polished, have ambition...why would a majority of these occupations be attractive? They wouldn't. They are just available. No different than finding myself in a leper colony...and all of a sudden, a one-eyed, toothless woman who smokes Camel non-filters becomes a consideration.
What disdain I have for the economic perdicament fellow Americans face.

Mopery of FL 10:41AM November 11, 2010

A true growth industry, along with food-stamp issuance work, thanks to the esteemed Obama administration.

Highly Paid IRS Employee of DC 10:34PM November 10, 2010

the makers of internet publishing (web design) software like i.e. Adobe should offer specific Learning Programs (classes) for print design professionals who have design/art skills but because they have been working in a medium that has literally transformed over the last 10 yrs. are now out of work and lacking most of this current job-market's skills.

Mike of CA 8:15PM November 10, 2010