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Good jobs to be in during a recession

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  • BoilerBoy
    BoilerBoy Posts: 39 Forumite
    Police officer. I predict riots!
  • cocktail
    cocktail Posts: 377 Forumite
    riot police to start with then soldiers --the MOD's recruiting
    oh!they'll need a lot of them. keeps up employment, newspapers have something else to concentrate on and rebuilding will ensure growth.
    all we need is a country to wage war on!
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    BoilerBoy wrote: »
    Police officer. I predict riots!



    Speaking of which...


    How come if you a tamil against the fighting in Sri Lanka you can have a month long demo outside Parliament?

    But if your a G20 demonstrator you cant?
    Not Again
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    cocktail wrote: »
    riot police to start with then soldiers --the MOD's recruiting
    oh!they'll need a lot of them. keeps up employment, newspapers have something else to concentrate on and rebuilding will ensure growth.
    all we need is a country to wage war on!


    Anyone will do.

    They normally draw straws on who they will war with next.
    Not Again
  • socrates
    socrates Posts: 2,889 Forumite
    1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »
    Funeral Director :confused:




    A trade that never dies.

    I asked a Funeral Director how business was going and he replied

    "DEAD"

    True story BTW...
  • inspector_monkfish
    inspector_monkfish Posts: 9,276 Forumite
    socrates wrote: »
    I asked a Funeral Director how business was going and he replied

    "DEAD"

    True story BTW...


    i asked a couple of gynaecologists how business was...

    they said that things were beginning to dry up....


    also a true story :D
    Please take the time to have a look around my Daughter's website www.daisypalmertrust.co.uk
    (MSE Andrea says ok!)
  • reduceditem
    reduceditem Posts: 3,057 Forumite
    Any company which makes those plastic 'FOR SALE' and 'TO LET' signs........bound to be loads of overtime going there.
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    solicitor (working in corporate litigation)

    forensic accountant.

    fraudster...
  • tanith
    tanith Posts: 8,091 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Bookies seem to do well whatever the situation...
    #6 of the SKI-ers Club :j

    "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    solicitor (working in corporate litigation)

    forensic accountant.

    fraudster...



    Commercial Property Arsonist
    Not Again
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