Rob's Top Ten Recession-Proof Jobs

During this period of economic uncertainty, we are all worried about the safety of our jobs and the portability of our skills.

Remember, even with no job growth, a slowing economy and troubled housing markets there is still a tin-lining in those gloomy clouds. The good news for job seekers is some employers are still hiring and certain, very specific, industries will survive (and some even thrive) during hard times.

Our website's devoted staff has done the leg work and come up with the most recession-proof jobs of 2008.

These are the industries that -- if you work in and your neighbor doesn't -- will make you truly value the hours you spent on Google looking up and understanding schadenfreude:

10. Customer Service: Especially customer phone support in Dehli.

9. International Business: Chinese product safety testing positions around the U.S.

8. Entertainment: Sell your dignity and join the cast of crappy/creepy reality TV show.

7. Health-care: The US desperately needs more pill pushers, suicide techs, & medicinal marijuana experts.

6. Marketing: Primarily MLM. If you can sell something of marginal value to a family member, please look no further, job guarantee earnings of $20,000/month working from home.

5. Environmental: Must have experience finding aluminum cans in large disposal bins, finding coins on the beach, and unwrapping copper from street lights, phone lines, and active air conditioning units.

4. Security: More and more Cat IVs are being hired by one of the largest security organizations in the world. With almost no discrimination in hiring for the US Army, opportunities are endless. The education and travel incentives with a wide variety of free-lunches make this an attractive place to work.

3. Law: Divorce, bankruptcy and real estate law are all thriving in this difficult economic period.

2. Entrepreneur: Start selling all that crap you accumulated during the good years with your very own Ebay business. Selling your vast assortment of Boats, ATVs, and that Yukon Denali with 1/8th a tank of gas will make you feel just as deleveraged as Donald Trump.

1. Religion: If no one else wants you, perhaps God is hiring.