A Resuscitation Recession...

My outlook on this recession is seemingly overly optimistic...however, along with continued business as usual,albeit possibly reduced; the bail-outs, consolidations, failures, and new opportunities created by this crisis seem likely to provide plethora of projects for people involved in supporting the execution of these types of activities...which is for all practical purposes all activities...so, as long as your job is not the actual activity but rather a role sustaining the activity's likeliness to exist, your role should at least be easily transportable if all local activity planning should cease...

IT services, applications ... etc should do fine...

obviously if you specialize in some support role for the financial industry - you should be able able to find work somewhere -- facilities, security, human resources, IT ... etc.. anything not financial...

there is so much work to do in this country that - well - it's just time to get out from behind the desk and get to it - roads, bridges... yeah yeah samo samo - well, let's not forget all the ingenious ways people figure out how to start new industries based on the needs of the resident zeitgeist in order to avoid having to go out to work on roads and bridges... I would expect huge developments to expand efficiency, sustainability, and re-usability, based components for a more conservation minded consumer or business...intra-city railway projects, bio-diversified farming sprees, combined technology-center power/cooling/desalination plants, ...etc this could eventually affect the new construction markets which are traditionally insulated from rapid innovation's economic impact on aging structures....so if a rapid enough transformation occurs in building materials and methods ... it could be along long long long time before a lot of the greatly depreciated real estate in this country seems like a better bargain at a break-even or better prices, than better newer digs somewhere else, and if enough innovation ensues, new real estate right next door...

recession project example which drives IT services and sales...
once upon a time:
Company A bought application system X because X does M great
Company B bought application system Y because Y does L the way B likes it done

then one day along came a salesperson:
The salesperson told Company A the latest rectifimaximus O does M better faster stronger cheaper than X
The salesperson told Company B the latest rectifimaximus O does L that way and more than Y for less

well being the fiscally irresponsible self-bonus giving financial industry executives they were at Companies A and B:
Companies A and B regretfully declined to upgrade while there was still time to save them from the credit crisis by forcing them to create a real budget with real money for a real upgrade that earns and saves real dollars every second of every day...

now there's no money left for executives to plunder but various account holders think they have money and some retained their ability to work - so these accounts at least still have some value as customer assets:
Companies A and B are bought for their forward intrinsic value

The buying company - being run by those who are still running and who are forward thinking ... hmmmm:
scratching their heads .. realizes the best way to merge this to one application system is to ahem - upgrade to O and migrate X's M to O and Y's L to O

case closed