10 Job Opportunities for Men in the New Economy: Part 1 By: Curtis Ophoven 3/18/2010 - 18 Comments According to several studies, men are indeed facing more job losses then woman because of the declines in the manufacturing and construction industries. Your Ad Here If this is the case, men need a list to point them to the most likely new jobs to pursue and grow into new careers. Despite the fact that congress is holding back the free market from creating new jobs, the market is created demand in new directions.   Based on my business trend research, the following jobs are the most practical jobs for men currently looking for work in the deepening recession. I didn’t include the temporary construction jobs and military jobs that are being supported by government stimulus packages because those jobs are likely to be lost as soon as the government is forced to drastically cut spending. I wanted a list of jobs that men could consider their new careers.  Jobs that they could grow into and remain gainfully employed for the next decade. Sometime in the future the dollar will sinks on the world market, which will lead to an increase in manufacturing and transportation which will probably become the largest engine for job growth, but that may not happen for several years. Therefore, until then I didn’t include jobs related to production or transportation or shipping (exporting) in the list because they don’t exist yet.  This list of jobs is perhaps a few of the most practical jobs for men today that are looking for a new career despite the recession.  If you don't know where to start looking for new job, consider starting with this list. In fact, as the recession deepens and the economic recovery fails to materialize, the demand for these jobs is likely to increase even more. Security Officers Appliance/Automotive/Home Repair Farming/Gardening Disaster Preparation/Recovery/Cleanup Personal Protection Guns/Safes/Home Security Systems Dog Breeder/Trainer Community Leadership City Counsel/School Boards Community College/Trade School Teacher Energy Reduction Expert Entrepreneur/Businessmen I’m sure there are other growing job opportunities that I didn’t list and I would love to hear your ideas, so please add your ideas to the comments of this article. In Part 2, I’m going to give more detail about each of these and why I think demand for these jobs will continue to grow.   Subscribe via RSS Copyright © 2010 PennyJobs.com. All rights reserved. Related Articles Businesses I’ve Tried and What I’ve Learned - Part 6: Garden Planters If Your Business is Going to Survive Next Year Consider Raising Your Prices Why America May Never Recover From the Recession: Part 5: America is Not Recorded as a Superpower in the Last Days Some Thoughts On Starting a Business Based on the Economic Rebound 3 New Career Choices, Which One Would You Pick? << FREE >> Weekly Newsletter... Signup today and start receiving our free weekly newsletter! Reader Comments Comment 1 Tim Says: on Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:20:56 PM thanks for the list. I needed something to help me narrow the possibilities down to bit so I can try to find something that I want to do based on some of the best options. Comment 2 Garth Says: on Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:25:06 PM I would love to learn how to be a farmer but cannot afford the land or equipment. Do you suggest I start as a hired hand at a ranch and try to work my way up? I am worried about societal upheavals and if I was a farmer I would always have food, milk, and eggs. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article492642.ece# Britain ‘four meals away from anarchy’ Comment 3 Mo Says: on Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:16:57 PM Is Dick Cheney Betting on Economic Collapse? http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Archives2009/WhitneyCheneyEconomicCollapse.html By Mike Whitney, originally published at Counterpunch July 5, 2006 "Wouldn't you like to know where Dick Cheney puts his money? Then you'd know whether his "deficits don't matter" claim is just baloney or not. Well, as it turns out, Kiplinger Magazine ran an article based on Cheney's financial disclosure statement and, sure enough, found out that the VP is lying to the American people for the umpteenth time. Deficits do matter and Cheney has invested his money accordingly. The article is called "Cheney's betting on bad news" and provides an account of where Cheney has socked away more than $25 million. While the figures may be estimates, the investments are not. According to Tom Blackburn of the Palm Beach Post, Cheney has invested heavily in "a fund that specializes in short-term municipal bonds, a tax-exempt money market fund and an inflation protected securities fund. The first two hold up if interest rates rise with inflation. The third is protected against inflation." Cheney has dumped another (estimated) $10 to $25 million in a European bond fund which tells us that he is counting on a steadily weakening dollar. So, while working class Americans are loosing ground to inflation and rising energy costs, Darth Cheney will be enhancing his wealth in "Old Europe". As Blackburn sagely notes, "Not all bad news' is bad for everybody." This should put to rest once and for all the foolish notion that the "Bush Economic Plan" is anything more than a scam aimed at looting the public till. The whole deal is intended to shift the nation's wealth from one class to another. It's also clear that Bush-Cheney couldn't have carried this off without the tacit approval of the thieves at the Federal Reserve who engineered the low-interest rate boondoggle to put the American people to sleep while they picked their pockets." Comment 4 Reed Says: on Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:22:38 PM Don't let government debt scare you! http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/04/my-inflation-nightmare/7995 There is a way out. It’s called inflation. In 1979, for example, the government ran a deficit of more than $40 billion—about $118 billion in today’s money. The national debt stood at about $830 billion at year’s end. But because of 13.3 percent inflation, that $830 billion was worth what only $732 billion would have been worth at the beginning of the year. In effect, the government ran up $40 billion in new debts but inflated away almost $100 billion and ended up with a national debt smaller in real terms than what it started with. Ten percent inflation for five years (if that were possible) would erode the value of our projected debt nicely—but along with it, the value of non-indexed pensions, people’s savings, and so on. The Federal Reserve is independent, but Congress and the White House have ways to pressure the Fed. Actually, just spending all this money we don’t have is one good way. Compared with raising taxes or cutting spending, just letting inflation do the dirty work sounds easy. It will be a terrible temptation, and Obama’s historic reputation (not to mention the welfare of the nation) will depend on whether he succumbs. Or so I fear. So who are you going to believe? Me? Or virtually every leading economist across the political spectrum? Even I know the sensible answer to that. Comment 5 Samantha Says: on Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:24:45 PM Perils of plastics: Risks to human health and the environment This is what scares me! http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/asu-pop031910.php "Plastics surround us. A vital manufacturing ingredient for nearly every existing industry, these materials appear in a high percentage of the products we use every day. Although modern life would be hard to imagine without this versatile chemistry, products composed of plastics also have a dark side, due in part to the very characteristics that make them so desirable—their durability and longevity. Now Rolf Halden, associate professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State University and assistant director of Environmental Biotechnology at the Biodesign Institute has undertaken a survey of existing scientific literature concerning the hazards of plastics to human health and to the ecosystems we depend on. His findings, which appear in the latest issue of the Annual Review of Public Health, are sobering. Today, plastics accumulate in garbage dumps and landfills and are sullying the world's oceans in ever-greater quantity. And plastics and their additives aren't just around us, they are inside virtually every one of us— present in our blood and urine in measureable amounts, ingested with the food we eat, the water we drink and from other sources. Halden's study reiterates the fact that the effects to the environment from plastic waste are acute. Measurements from the most contaminated regions of the world's oceans show that the mass of plastics exceeds that of plankton sixfold. Patches of oceanic garbage—some as large as the state of Texas—hold a high volume of non-biodegradable plastics. Aquatic birds and fish are increasingly victims because biodegradation processes are inadequate to eliminate this durable refuse. The magnitude of society's burden of plastic waste is only beginning to be fully appreciated. In the U.S., the average person produces a half-pound of plastic waste every day. Around the world, some 300 million tons of the material are produced each year—a figure poised to expand, as new forms of plastics are devised to serve a voracious global appetite. As Halden points out, this annual production alone would fill a series of train cars encircling the globe. "We're doomed to live with yesterday's plastic pollution and we are exacerbating the situation with each day of unchanged behavior," he said. Adverse effects to human health remain a topic of fierce controversy, though a growing consensus is emerging that plastics and their additives are not always the benign companions we once assumed them to be. Halden says he accepted the invitation to write about plastics and human health "because the topic showcases the bigger problem of how to create a sustainable future for modern civilization." Two broad classes of plastic-related chemicals are of critical concern for human health—bisphenol-A or BPA, and additives used in the synthesis of plastics, which are known as phthalates. Halden explains that plastics are polymers—long chains of molecules usually made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and/or silicon, which are chemically linked together or polymerized. Different polymer chains can be used to create forms of plastics with unique and useful properties. BPA is a basic building block of polycarbonate plastics, such as those used for bottled water, food packaging and other items. While it has been considered benign in the form of a heavily cross-linked polymer, its bonds can break down over time, when plastics are repeatedly washed, exposed to heat or other stresses, liberating the building blocks of the chemical, which are toxic. BPA has been recognized since the 1940s as an endocrine disrupting chemical that interferes with normal hormonal function. Adding to the health risks associated with BPA is the fact that other ingredients—such as plasticizers—are commonly added to plastics. Many of these potentially toxic components also can leach out over time. Among the most common is a chemical known as di-ethylhexyl phthalate or DEHP. In some products, notably medical devices including IV bags or tubing, additives like DEHP can make up 40 or 50 percent of the product. "If you're in a hospital, hooked up to an IV drip," Halden explains, "the chemical that oozes out goes directly into your bloodstream, with no opportunity for detoxification in the gut. This can lead to unhealthy exposure levels, particularly in susceptible populations such as newborns." Comment 6 Kingston Says: on Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:27:09 PM Howard Stern: Dems are “communists” – “Will never vote for a Democrat again.” http://robertlaurie.net/2010/03/20/howard-stern-dems-are-communists-will-never-vote-democrat-again/ Even the far lefties are turning against the Dems! Comment 7 RP Fan Says: on Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:28:56 PM http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=236 Ron Paul Statement before the United States House of Representatives, September 23, 2009 Government has been mismanaging medical care for more than 45 years; for every problem it has created it has responded by exponentially expanding the role of government. Points to consider: 1.) No one has a right to medical care. If one assumes such a right, it endorses the notion that some individuals have a right to someone else’s life and property. This totally contradicts the principles of liberty. 2.) If medical care is provided by government, this can only be achieved by an authoritarian government unconcerned about the rights of the individual. 3.) Economic fallacies accepted for more than 100 years in the United States has deceived policy makers into believing that quality medical care can only be achieved by government force, taxation, regulations, and bowing to a system of special interests that creates a system of corporatism. 4.) More dollars into any monopoly run by government never increases quality but it always results in higher costs and prices. 5.) Government does have an important role to play in facilitating the delivery of all goods and services in an ethical and efficient manner. 6.) First, government should do no harm. It should get out of the way and repeal all the laws that have contributed to the mess we have. 7.) The costs are obviously too high but in solving this problem one cannot ignore the debasement of the currency as a major factor. 8.) Bureaucrats and other third parties must never be allowed to interfere in the doctor/patient relationship. 9.) The tax code, including the ERISA laws, must be changed to give everyone equal treatment by allowing a 100% tax credit for all medical expenses. Laws dealing with bad outcomes and prohibiting doctors from entering into voluntary agreements with their patients must be repealed. Tort laws play a significant role in pushing costs higher, prompting unnecessary treatment and excessive testing. Patients deserve the compensation; the attorneys do not. 10.) Insurance sales should be legalized nationally across state lines to increase competition among the insurance companies. 11.) Long-term insurance policies should be available to young people similar to term-life insurances that offer fixed prices for long periods of time. 12.) The principle of insurance should be remembered. Its purpose in a free market is to measure risk, not to be used synonymously with social welfare programs. Any program that provides for first-dollar payment is no longer insurance. This would be similar to giving coverage for gasoline and repair bills to those who buy car insurance or providing food insurance for people to go to the grocery store. Obviously, that could not work. 13.) The cozy relationship between organized medicine and government must be reversed. Early on medical insurance was promoted by the medical community in order to boost re-imbursements to doctors and hospitals. That partnership has morphed into the government/insurance industry still being promoted by the current administration. 14.) Threatening individuals with huge fines by forcing them to buy insurance is a boon to the insurance companies. 15.) There must be more competition for individuals entering into the medical field. Licensing strictly limits the number of individuals who can provide patient care. A lot of problems were created in 20th century as a consequence the Flexner Report (1910), which was financed by the Carnegie Foundation and strongly supported by the AMA. Many medical schools were closed and the number of doctors was drastically reduced. The motivation was to close down medical schools that catered to women, minorities and especially homeopathy. We continue to suffer from these changes made which were designed to protect physician’s income and promote allopathic medicine over the more natural cures and prevention of homeopathic medicine. 16.) We must remove any obstacles for people seeking holistic and nutritional alternatives to current medical care. We must remove the threat of further regulations pushed by the drug companies now working worldwide to limit these alternatives. True competition in the delivery of medical care is what is needed, not more government meddling. Comment 8 Couponer Says: on Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:31:20 PM Finding coupons 101 http://www.moneysavingkate.com/coupons-101/ There are tons of places to find coupons. All that I use are free, but there are places available to purchase coupons. There are also different kinds of coupons. The most commonly known coupons are the kind that you clip out of the Sunday paper inserts. The inserts vary by region and the bigger cities usually have more and better coupons. So if you live in a smaller town, it would probably be worth looking into getting a subscription to your nearest major newspaper. There are also coupons you find directly on the products that you have to peel off; these are called “peelies”. Also, throughout the store you can find pads that you can tear coupons off of; these are called “tear-pad” coupons. There are also the little machines attached to the store shelves that blink and spit out coupons; these are generally put out by SmartSource and are called “blinkies”. Another source for coupons is the Internet. These coupons are known as printable coupons because you print them out yourself and cut them out. There are many different websites available for printable coupons. Some of my favorites include: Coupons.com Redplum.com Smartsource.com Afullcup.com Wow-Coupons.com A third source for coupons is to purchase them online. There are a few ways to do this as well, such as: The Coupon Master CentsOff Coupons & Things by Dede The Coupon Clippers The Coupon Carry-Out Ebay.com Comment 9 Steve Says: on Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:33:36 PM This is what scares me! http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20000758-38.html "Two U.S. senators met with President Obama on Thursday to push for a national ID card with biometric information such as a fingerprint, hand scan, or iris scan that all employers would be required to verify. In an opinion article published in Friday's edition of the Washington Post, Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) say the new identification cards will "ensure that illegal workers cannot get jobs" and "dramatically decrease illegal immigration." Schumer and Graham pitched the idea to President Obama during a private meeting Thursday at the White House. Graham said afterward that Obama "welcomed" their proposal for a new ID card law; the White House said in a statement that the senators' plan was "promising." This push for a national ID is part of what the senators say is a necessary overhaul of immigration law, including additional border security, more temporary workers, and a form of amnesty for illegal immigrants already in the United States. It comes just two days before a rally in Washington, D.C. sponsored by groups including the AFL-CIO, Farmworker Justice, and the National Council of La Raza that also calls for amnesty. Linking national ID cards to immigration reform is a popular idea in Washington political circles. After all, if every U.S. citizen has a biometric-equipped cards, the thinking goes, it's easy to order employers not to give a job to someone without one. But concerns about privacy, security, and federalism have torpedoed each one of these proposals so far. A similar national ID plan--which also required that employers do verifications--sunk President Bush's broader proposal for immigration reform in 2007. A proposal three years earlier by Rep. David Drier (R-Calif.) to create federal ID cards with Americans' photograph, Social Security number, and an "encrypted electronic strip" with additional information was even less successful. Then there was the controversial Real ID Act, which tried unsuccessfully to compel states to standardize their drivers' licenses. But a libertarian grassroots revolt, including an anti-Real ID vote a few weeks ago in the Utah legislature, has halted Homeland Security's plans. (Rep. Ron Paul, the former Republican presidential candidate, argued it would do little to curb legal immigration.) Under the Schumer-Graham proposal, extracting biometric information from hundreds of millions of Americans is no trivial task. It could mean extraordinary lines at regional Social Security offices--and an inconvenience for Americans switching jobs who haven't had their retina or DNA scanned in and stored on the ID card. "We would require all U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who want jobs to obtain a high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security card," the senators' opinion article says. "Each card's unique biometric identifier would be stored only on the card; no government database would house everyone's information. The cards would not contain any private information, medical information or tracking devices."" Comment 10 Sally Says: on Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:36:17 PM http://couplemoney.com/family-and-finances/my-most-important-financial-tool/ MEN - YOUR MOST IMPORTANT FINANCIAL TOOL IS YOUR WIFE!!! Comment 11 Mark Says: on Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:59:12 PM i think welders and gunsmiths will be good jobs for men. Rebellion in America heats up as 5th state exempts guns March 16, 2010 by Statesman Sentinel By Bob Unruh – WorldNetDaily http://statesmansentinel.com/2010/03/16/rebellion-in-america-heats-up-as-5th-state-exempts-guns/ A fifth state – South Dakota – has decided that guns made, sold and used within its borders no longer are subject to the whims of the federal government through its rule-making arm in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and two supporters of the growing groundswell say they hope Washington soon will be taking note. South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds has signed into law his state’s version of a Firearms Freedom Act that first was launched in Montana. It already is law there, in Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming, which took the unusual step of specifying criminal penalties – including both fines and jail time – for federal agents attempting to enforce a federal law on a “personal firearm” in the Cowboy State. According to a report in the Dakota Voice, the new South Dakota law addresses the “rights of states which have been carelessly trampled by the federal government for decades.” “As the federal government has radically overstepped is constitutional limitations in the past year or so, an explosion of states have begun re-asserting their rights not only with regard to firearms, but also in shielding themselves against government health care, cap and trade global warming taxes, and more,” the report said. South Dakota’s law specifically notes “any firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in South Dakota and that remains within the borders of South Dakota is not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration, under the authority of Congress to regulate interstate commerce." Comment 12 Couponer Says: on Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:03:31 PM Be afraid of the stealth tax - it'll getcha before you know it http://www.theledger.com/article/20100318/ZNYT01/3183017/1001/BUSINESS?Title=To-Fill-Budget-Gaps-x2018-Stealth-x2019-Taxes-Are-Creeping-Up&tc=ar To Fill Budget Gaps, ‘Stealth’ Taxes Are Creeping Up MATTHEW SALTMARSH Published: Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 5:12 a.m. France, promising to improve the environment, is planning to introduce a carbon tax. In Finland, where the government says it wants to improve diets, taxes are back on candy and soft drinks. Similarly, Denmark has added tobacco and some fatty foods to the list of taxed products. Britain is taking a different tack, considering a so-called horse tax. All these taxes may be presented as serving virtuous ends, but they also have something else in common: they help plug budget holes deepened by the recession, bailouts and billions in stimulus spending. As a result, analysts say, taxpayers from California to Copenhagen should brace themselves for more “stealth taxes” — indirect levies like sales taxes, or microcharges on services once provided free, like registering a pet. Such charges can have many benefits for tax collectors. For one thing, they are less volatile and less dependent on the economic cycle than corporate or income taxes. For another, they are less prone to avoidance and cheaper to collect. Finally, analysts say, they are generally easier to enact. Comment 13 Sally Says: on Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:05:55 PM I AM AFRAID IT IT TOO LATE & WE ARE TOO TIRED TO WAKE UP http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wall-street-sequel-an-omen-of-us-collapse-2010-03-16?pagenumber=1 "America is unprepared for the coming disaster Stone's message is clear and powerful: You're ignoring the coming collapse of capitalism ... of our society ... collapse of America. We are ignoring the end of our experiment in democracy. We are unprepared ... "our way of life is going to change." Wake up" Comment 14 Doomer Says: on Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:07:23 PM http://dailyreckoning.com/us-economic-outlook-default-hyperinflation-or-both/ "So I am telling the kids, “You brats might as well quit school right now because there is no future for you since your own federal government has borrowed and spent this country into the ground, made possible by the loathsome Federal Reserve creating all the wildly excessive amounts of dollars that made it all freaking possible, which became, because it is, an inflation in the money supply, which is what will cause terrifying inflations in prices as all this money is used to bid for a relatively static supply of goods and services so that prices will always be going up and up, all your miserable lives, and at the rate that the idiot Leftist Obama government is deficit-spending money by the trillions of dollars, and the rate at which the foul Federal Reserve is creating new money by the trillions of dollars to finance it, prices will rise so high that this Whole Freaking Country (WFC) is doomed to suffer catastrophic inflation! We’re freaking doomed!” Comment 15 Edward Says: on Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:15:17 PM http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-martin-armstrong-writes-from-solitary-confinement-we-are-entering-phase-ii-of-the-debt-crisis-2010-3 How to get out of the depression - cut all taxes other than local retail. Comment 16 Fellowes Says: on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 7:30:09 PM You should recommend a government job as their benefits kick buttski compared to the private sector: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/03/growing-gap-between-govt-and-private.html Growing Gap between Gov't and Private Sector Benefits Comment 17 Queensland Hospital Doctors Says: on Sunday, April 11, 2010 3:41:26 PM HI.... young peoples complete their study to get better jobs but when they could not get in its make them dis heart there should be some thing for young generation good tips here get in touch Comment 18 AB Says: on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:48:24 PM Thanks for the list, interesting read. In case anyone is job hunting right now, I would recommend checking out this blog http://blog.greensherpa.com/index.php/tips-and-tricks/career-tips/ it has a lot of easy and helpful tips! Write a Comment Please keep comments civil and on-topic. Abusive or inappropriate comments will be removed without warning.  Name (required)     Email Address (required)     Website URL  Comment

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