Direct sales (like Avon, Mary Kay,) offer recession-proof jobs
source : USA Today Direct-sales businesses that rely on home-based representatives to peddle their wares are seeing their sales forces rapidly expand as the nation's unemployment rate soars to nearly 9% and those who lost jobs and nest eggs look for new ways to make money…USA Today. Visit link for full story http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2009-05-13-direct-sales-jobs-recession-unemployment_N.htm That is 9% unemployment rate in a country such as the United States of America. Compare this with Philippine unemployment rate as of January 2011 – 7.4% . Comparing both countries, we feel a much greater overall impact in the Philippines. Based on my observation majority in this 7,000 plus group of islands, still tend to think employment is the solution. Question is where are the jobs? . We have massive unemployed nursing graduates, thanks to the growing BPO industry in the country, it is helping some segments of the unemployed well versed in the english langua...