Times are hard right now…everyone holding back, trying to save a few nickels. Spending is down. Everyone wants to hunker down and ride out the storm with a safe (and hopefully cushy) job.

So here comes Business Week with some advice…20 jobs to help you ride out the storm. Sounds nice, right?

Except that EVERY job they list requires lots and lots of study or training. By the time you finish training to be a nurse, or become a database administrator, happy days should be here again. And if they are not, that’s too bad, because you will have this shiny degree, loads of debt and no job. Plus, some of the jobs they talk about, especially those related to computers, are headed overseas anyway.

What Business Week should have done is talk about how you can pick up jobs that require little to no training, such as security guard, truck driver, or hot dog vendor. The St. Petersburg time has a great article on how there is a boom going on in hot dog carts.

There is also a nice business to be done in serving gourmet food from a truck, a step up from the ‘roach coaches’ of yore. A good example is this Belgian waffle guy in New York or these gourmet taco trucks in Houston.

St. Pete Times 1, BusinessWeek 0.