[Bloody Sam Roberts]

.....what will we be doing?

Painting houses and cleaning toilets.

Actually, plumbing and carpentry are looking mighty tempting these days.

[RockyMtnMan]

My father-in-law ran a plumbing business for 20 years and retired recently. He worked his ass to the bone and his health was sacrificed in the process.

I'll admit he could have hired more employees and acted more as a supervisor but it's difficult to find the right help. You must have a license to practice plumbing so that reduces your potential work force.

[Delphster]

From the article in Denver Post today Denver-based Quark Inc., one of the nation's best-known software companies, has just built a brand-new facility that will employ 1,000 software and technology workers. The growth might appear encouraging to the state's ailing tech economy, but there's a key caveat: the center, and the jobs, are in Chandigarh, India.

The demand for construction and other skills will diminish here as well as American compnaies will need less office space here since their labor base will be in India. It may take a little longer here for other trades to be effected but they will.

[mamelukesabre]

Yes they are. I see lots of guys doing very well these days painting houses, putting up siding, doing roofs, and other types of remodelling. My neighbor does this sort of thing and he just bought a brand new cadilac. He's self employed and doesn't have more than 2 guys working for him.