Top 10 Recession Proof Jobs

[Wizzo]

These jobs will make you fitter, happier, healthier and richer! Neil I hope you appreciate me typing this little lot out - which one suits you??

1. Librarian
Salary: £60k
Good: Future proof data management skills
Bad: Training, even part time is pretty full-on 

2. Tree Surgeon
Salary: £30k
Good: Easy entry to the growing green sector
Bad: Requires a head for heights - up to 36m 

3. Genetic Counsellor
Salary: £40k
Good: Great job satisfaction
Bad: If you skipped biology at school then forget it

4. Drummer/Drum Tutor
Salary: £100k
Good: Be a Rock n Roll star and burn the same calories as an Olympian! 
Bad: Its more difficult than it looks

5. Wine Buyer
Salary: £30k
Good: Live the good life 
Bad: Very competitive industry

6. Hypnotherapist
Salary: £100k
Good: Peace, quiet and no boss
Bad: You'll be considered a stage quack until you get a good reputation 

7. Landscape Architect
Salary: £40k
Good: Desperate need for new entrants
Bad: Snobbery of 'real' architects

8. College Lecturer
Salary: £46k
Good: Indulge your mind and pass on your wisdom 
Bad: You need a good background in higher education

9. Personal Trainer
Salary: £40k - £135k
Good: Earn money and keep tabs of the gym floor honeys 
Bad: Ever heard of a busman's holiday?

10. Diving Instructor
Salary: £40k - £200k
Good: Increased fitness and standard of life
Bad: Upping sticks is needed for the best postings

[Neil.P]

Some top tips here from the Wizard. I've been known to play the drums on a few occasions, I even had lessons for a good few years. You're right, it is harder than it looks, my yearly salary would be more like £100 than £100K

Neil.P

[Slugger]

Cool that makes the bill for our two days nice and cheap

[Steven Roy]

How exactly does a driving instructor make £200k a year?

[cosworth151]

How exactly does a driving instructor make £200k a year?

Hazardous duty pay.

[Wizzo]

Thats DIVING instructor.

[Scott]

I can't think of a diving instructor in this world who makes that much...and I know quite a few...most live like batchelors (and are).

[Steven Roy]

Thats DIVING instructor.

I refer the honourable gentleman to his previous comment about the sodding keyboard.  fools

[Neil.P]

^

Neil.P

[Alianora La Canta]

It is theoretically possible to make £60k as a librarian if you are the head of a library service (who are still called librarians even though they rarely set foot outside admin offices). However, if you are a standard librarian, £15k is more realistic and an assistant librarian gets half that.

You also have to deal with bosses who make Max Mosley look logical - or is that just me?

[John S]

How about an Undertaker, now that surely must rate as recession proof. Have no idea about pay rates though.

[Steven Roy]

How about an Undertaker, now that surely must rate as recession proof.

Only if Chris Amon doesn't become an undertaker.  Mario Andretti once said that Amon was so unlucky that if he became an undertaker people would stop dying.

[Dare]

Or a bartender,no matter how bad the economy is
there's always money for drinks

[SalinaA]

I could be a Great Wine Buyer but I dount it would get any further as id prob end up drinking it all LOL!