I have found that having multiple skills along with a specialized skill such as being a concrete mixer driver has kept me employed at the worst of times.
I am quite possibly either fortunate or less fortunate depending on a persons POW that I grew up without any liberal arts or college degrees, so I wound up being a mechanic all my life, and then I evolved into heavy equipment and then into a narrow field being a concrete batch plant engineer, driver and maintenance supervisor.
No guarantees that college degree or technical school a person saw on TV will get them a job, it comes from a persons heart and soul, its NOT all about just a document saying you are the happy recipient of a continuous brainwashing program in a vague field of something general.
I think that all of these things have help to keep me working with out lapses of more than a month or two.
However, it it also true that I am very willing to move...and most importantly, WORK. There are alot of lazy people out there. B Cool,