I was talking to a guy a few weeks ago who was attending community college and thinking about getting a degree in "the funeral sciences" and later working in the funeral industry.  His logic:  People are always dying, so he'll always have a job.  As much as the idea of touching corpses gives me the heebee jeebees, I couldn't argue with his rationale.  There are really only a handful of truly recession-proof jobs, and using this guy's logic, I would add:  People are always having babies, people are always eating food, and people are always getting sick.  Jobs that have to do with death, birth, food, and health are probably a safe bet regardless of economic conditions. #business