Jobs/Industries Not Affected

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a private investigator whose primary clients are hedge funds. Business is very good for now. My wife works in PR; her clients are primarily corporations.

+1. My DH is a law firm partner whose clients are the above. Even if some clients leave/shrink/disappear, that's highly unlikely to happen to all of them.

Your husband isn’t telling you what deregulation and lack of enforcement is about to inflict on his law practice.

I understand you have a need to believe everyone will suffer equally.

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Not so easy to up and become a lawyer right now, I assume, but employment law does pretty well when mass layoffs are happening. Perhaps there’s something within one of those firms you could do—IT, HR, Business development, Data analytics.

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Anonymous wrote:Construction

Nope. DH works for a major construction company in the DMV. There’s a trickle down effect. Feds will be vacating buildings and that will result in higher vacancy rates and reduced demand for new office buildings. Higher rates of unemployment or underemployment paired with high interest rates mean the residential market could slow meaning less demand for new construction. Also, the tariffs will raise costs for construction. Inflation had already had a negative impact. I just hope DH keeps a job.

Data centers

Who builds data centers? Where does that revenue come from? Money out of thin air? Nope - ultimately people need to buy products and services that keep that revenue stream flowing. Everything is going to be affected. Everything.

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Not terribly helpful for DC-based folks, but parts of the private sector are rejoicing about the deregulation happening in the fed. Banking is booming, as is anything related to mergers and acquisitions (legal, accounting, firms that are ripe for expanding, etc.). (The Biden administration scrutinized M&A quite a lot so as soon as Trump was elected, all of the firms in that ecosystem soared in stock value.). Energy is expanding-- partly because it will be easier to expand coal production, etc. and partly because AI requires a ton of energy. So utilities firms are doing well (not sure if this amounts to hiring, though).

For other industries, it seems like there is a wait-and-see related to tariffs. Many of these firms say that federal deregulation will help them expand but they're also wary about potential tariffs. So these might have positions available--neither contracting nor expanding right now. If his first term is any indication, whenever firms are hurt too much (e.g., when the stock market goes down), Trump adjusts. So most managers are tracking this stuff carefully, but not really predicting a ton of hardship. And those companies that are visibly sucking up (e.g. CEOs attended the inauguration) are probably going to be in good shape.

NGOs that rely on federal funding are obviously in bad shape. But advocacy NGOs are likely to expand somewhat.

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Anonymous wrote:Construction

Nope. DH works for a major construction company in the DMV. There’s a trickle down effect. Feds will be vacating buildings and that will result in higher vacancy rates and reduced demand for new office buildings. Higher rates of unemployment or underemployment paired with high interest rates mean the residential market could slow meaning less demand for new construction. Also, the tariffs will raise costs for construction. Inflation had already had a negative impact. I just hope DH keeps a job.

Data centers

Who builds data centers? Where does that revenue come from? Money out of thin air? Nope - ultimately people need to buy products and services that keep that revenue stream flowing. Everything is going to be affected. Everything.

Great. So we are all going to suffer. I am predicting a sharp increase in suicides. I mean really what is the point if you’re unemployed and have no hope of finding a job.

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Anonymous wrote:Local law enforcement. As society slowly unravels more will be needed.

Local law enforcement officers are government employees paid by tax dollars. The federal DOGE mess will trickle down to the state and local levels as they lose tax revenue and federal funding. What will happen is that people will have to hire private security guards and more neighborhoods will become gated communities. Look at other countries where this is commonplace.

It’s gonna get ugly.

The crazy thing is that LEOs overwhelmingly vote republican. And then they’ll cry when the state budgets are ultimately squeezed and it starts to affect their personal bottom line. But they won’t blame the Rs, they’ll just complain that the cuts should come from elsewhere in the state budget.

Demand for local LEOs is very strong, most agencies are actively recruiting. The last several years of "defund the police/BLM" sentiment has resulted in a lack of respect for law enforcement and in active animus towards the profession. That pendulum is starting to swing back as more rational people realize that the absence of law enforcement = higher levels of crime and social disorder instead of more "equity", but for the time being there are plenty of jobs available.

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Plumbing. Because there's always some shit to deal with.

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Dental hygienist.

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There is always someone on the other side of the trade. For every long there is a short.

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Anonymous wrote:Not terribly helpful for DC-based folks, but parts of the private sector are rejoicing about the deregulation happening in the fed. Banking is booming, as is anything related to mergers and acquisitions (legal, accounting, firms that are ripe for expanding, etc.). (The Biden administration scrutinized M&A quite a lot so as soon as Trump was elected, all of the firms in that ecosystem soared in stock value.). Energy is expanding-- partly because it will be easier to expand coal production, etc. and partly because AI requires a ton of energy. So utilities firms are doing well (not sure if this amounts to hiring, though).

For other industries, it seems like there is a wait-and-see related to tariffs. Many of these firms say that federal deregulation will help them expand but they're also wary about potential tariffs. So these might have positions available--neither contracting nor expanding right now. If his first term is any indication, whenever firms are hurt too much (e.g., when the stock market goes down), Trump adjusts. So most managers are tracking this stuff carefully, but not really predicting a ton of hardship. And those companies that are visibly sucking up (e.g. CEOs attended the inauguration) are probably going to be in good shape.

NGOs that rely on federal funding are obviously in bad shape. But advocacy NGOs are likely to expand somewhat.

Capital One in in DC and with Discover Merger and less Regs all good.

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99 percent of private industry jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:All will be impacted, but there are some positives: the suffering will bring us together to revolt. I cannot see a large population of the country losing their livelihoods and taking it lying down. I mean, what are we supposed to do?

(And by revolt, obviously don’t mean violence, just pushing back).

Oh, I totally see violence

I work for a small construction company and we are expecting a recession.
The funeral industry always has pretty steady business, although it has largely been gobbled up by private equity, like everything else.

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Anonymous wrote:Not terribly helpful for DC-based folks, but parts of the private sector are rejoicing about the deregulation happening in the fed. Banking is booming, as is anything related to mergers and acquisitions (legal, accounting, firms that are ripe for expanding, etc.). (The Biden administration scrutinized M&A quite a lot so as soon as Trump was elected, all of the firms in that ecosystem soared in stock value.). Energy is expanding-- partly because it will be easier to expand coal production, etc. and partly because AI requires a ton of energy. So utilities firms are doing well (not sure if this amounts to hiring, though).

For other industries, it seems like there is a wait-and-see related to tariffs. Many of these firms say that federal deregulation will help them expand but they're also wary about potential tariffs. So these might have positions available--neither contracting nor expanding right now. If his first term is any indication, whenever firms are hurt too much (e.g., when the stock market goes down), Trump adjusts. So most managers are tracking this stuff carefully, but not really predicting a ton of hardship. And those companies that are visibly sucking up (e.g. CEOs attended the inauguration) are probably going to be in good shape.

NGOs that rely on federal funding are obviously in bad shape. But advocacy NGOs are likely to expand somewhat.

M&A is actually down right now einstein.

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Anonymous wrote:99 percent of private industry jobs.

You dumb bro.

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Anonymous wrote:Please tell me your local jobs/industries that are not affected by this administration’s hacking job. I have really tried to think of a backup plan and I can’t think of a single thing. Too late to become a doctor or nurse.

If people don't have jobs, they won't have health insurance. If they don't have health insurance, they won't be able to afford doctors and nurses.

Federal government provides funding to local areas/states, so that will be impacted.

Republicans want to remove the Dept of Ed, so schools will be impacted.

Colleges and universities will eventually be threatened by the GOP if GOP is not stopped, so everything there will be affected.

Everything will be affected.