Most Important Industry

Someone asked me tonight: what would you recommend as the most secure industry to go into?  I hadn’t given it a lot of thought before, but in the current day and time it seems that the jobs that offer the most “job security” seem to be government, public sector, defense/security jobs.  But for some reason, that is not the answer I provided, because a little piece of optimism inside of the hopes that this protracted state of fear will come to an end, meaning that jobs like those will become less prevalent (for better or worse, of course).

Instead, I answered that the most secure industry seems to be teaching.  I believe that we will always need educators, and even though people may try, it is an industry that will prove impossible to outsource to a foreign-owned company.  I always used to play “teacher” or “school” with my sister when we were much younger, but it’s not something that I honestly considering going into.  I’ve acknowledged the work of many memorable educators and the influence they have had on my life.  I can’t imagine having gone into a room, pulled up a computer screen with a training CD from a foreign-owned company come up and teach me everything I needed to know about cutting with scissors, sharing, etc.