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I’ve been contemplating a career change recently, but have decided to put that on the back burner for now, what with the world’s economy being engulfed in the flames of damnation and all.

I work in a law firm, doing things that would put you to sleep instantly if I elaborated on them, but suffice it to say it’s steady work, and lots of it. One thing you can say about working in law firms, it’s that unless you fuck up royally, like whip out your Chad Johnson at the boss’ ADR meeting and announce that you are now interviewing for the position of slave-doggy, it’s very hard to get fired. Law firms, good ones, have too much work and typically not enough cogent people to do it, so they tend to want to hang on to the ones they’ve already trained.

And in any economy, good or bad, people are always going to be suing other people, and corporations, and entities, and states and cities, so you don’t have to worry about business drying up.

My other job, playing in a bar band, is also similarly secure. I figure, the worse financial times get, the more people want to flee to their local McIrish watering hole, down a few shots of Jameson, laugh at some shit-for-brains singing Carrie Underwood, then shrug and get on the dance floor anyway, because that’s where all the hot chicks are. Forgetting about your tanked portfolio by playing amateur subway groper on the dance floor with a bunch of drunk 23-year old girls…is a commodity with no price. (That last sentence should be read in the voice of the fat Puerto Rican guy from “Sleepers”)

So I’m recession proof. What other professions are recession-proof?

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