See the article on new doctors in Spain.

http://www.costalevantenews.es/news/main-news.htm#n2

So the job situation isn't that bad after all - so long as you have the relevant skills. Must be very hard for parents of kids nowadays. Choose the right career path (doctor, pharmacist, dentist) and they'll be alright. Choose almost everything else and you're in the smelly brown stuff as regards regular employment (especially in boom and bust times). We can't all be doctors... can we?

I don't know some are self reinvented Doctors or Men of the Church, Who put two fingers up to the establishment.

Or you could be a teacher. Or work for an energy company - I hear the Oil and Gas industry is doing okay at the moment. Or a public sector worker - I know a bin man that earns £70k a year and drives a Jag - one of the perks of the re-alignment of employment conditions and contracts in the public sector apparently. Perhaps a funeral director - people still die during recessions. Or a hairdresser - I always seem to need to get my hair cut whatever the economy is doing. Then there's always the army - recruiting like mad at the moment, seriously overstretched around the world. Oh, and then of course there's IT. There's always a demand for good IT people. Lawyers - good ones are always busy - certainly notaries and judges are kept busy. How about a vet - our vet is always packed - seems to be a good career path to me? Then, of course, you could always move into politics - there's money to be made, even when you leave.

Jobs I wouldn't want to be in right now: anything to do with the retail banking sector and estate agents. I feel genuinely sorry for workers in the retail banks. The (highly paid) people at the top screw up, but it'll be the (low-paid) staff in the branches that will suffer when costs need to be cut.

But, seriously, there are plenty of 'safe' jobs in a recession, ironic that many choose to leave these jobs (e.g. education) because it's not so glamorous in times of boom...

At the bottom of the page where this message appeared there was an appropriate ad about teachers- see if it's still there - made me laugh. Supports the view anyone can just be a teacher as you say

P.S. only kidding former teachers

P.P.S. B....r its gone, something now about the American Green Card - well I suppose that's a laugh as well bearing in mind how difficult it will soon be to get in the USA

and scousers dont forget.Its in our biological make up

Or to call them by their Latin name Hubuscapusnickus

you must have been to the capital of culture many years ago.its been alloy wheels for a long time