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  • Purple Dalek
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    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
    Purveyor of video cameras, listening devices and enormous databases to HM Government.
    They'll be needing them if this gets as bad as forecast.

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  • Mich the Tester
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    Purveyor of video cameras, listening devices and enormous databases to HM Government.

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  • TimberWolf
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    Public sector. Plus you get a pension, lots of time off, etc. People I know working for the local University seem to get an extraordinary amount of time off. Boom times for them.

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  • ThomasSoerensen
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    manufacturer of extremely cheap canes and walking aids that break easily.

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  • gingerjedi
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    Boomed!!!

    I'm contracting for a client in the 'Oil and gas machinery' sector, you'd be surprised how many old hippies are involved in oil exploration & extraction.

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  • Fred Bloggs
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    Nuclear.

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  • Zippy
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    Poppy farming or (as spacecadet said) the public sector

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  • Alan @ BroomeAffinity
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    LIDL / ALDI / Iceland

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  • Xenophon
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    Originally posted by chef View Post
    not many IT based though

    http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pb...67426/1039/TOC
    Corn!

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  • Bear
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    Start a bank...

    ...ask HM Govt for £10billion bail out...

    ...Boomed!!

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  • Spacecadet
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    surely public sector would be the way forward... spending their way out of the recession etc..

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  • Purple Dalek
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    Repo man.
    Dole hostels.

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  • chef
    started a topic industries to get into in a recession

    industries to get into in a recession

    not many IT based though

    http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pb...67426/1039/TOC
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