What career paths hold the most consistent rate of success?

Bailey D: What career paths hold the most consistent rate of success?
Also, what career paths ensure a low chance of being laid off?

I’m looking at future options as a high school student. Thanks in advance.
I’m top of my class, and extremely smart. The downside of learning a craft is that I HAVE NO HANDS ON ABILITY. I say that not aggressively, but laughing at my own expense in a way. Plus, starting a serious craft requires serious money and I’m one of the few poor smart people, aside from Chris Langan.

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Answer by Juliet Ewe
Right now, there is almost no field in the United States in which people are not getting laid off. Except the military and healthcare, and unless you are willing to bomb innocent civilians around the globe, or accrue the unconscienably massive student debt it takes to become a doctor/lawyer, or change adult diapers (and the current quota is 20 adult changes per hour–patients are not people. patients are profit), I would not recommend going into any of these fields.
But the saddest thing, though, is that a lot of the actually productive work, which used to make America great,(such as factories, crafts, vocational trades) have been sent to other countries.
our economy is feeling the effect of this, but it is taboo to hear about on tv/radio, which programs and commercials are mostly paid for by the larger companies and corporations.

Learn any manual craft which can be sold or traded, any vocation which you can be comfortable doing, and any survival skill like farm animal husbandry and sustainable organic farming and gardening .
Learn to manage money and you might be lucky enough to work for someone that has assets and money, or better yet, build up assets and reserve of your own.
Learn math. Real concrete math. Not the abstract ‘slight of number’ math theory that is taught in public school. Ask your parents to get you the mathusee program. It is like $ 80, per ‘grade level’ but you will be a real mathematician when you are done.
Most of all. Learn to rely on yourself to find, and do, honest work while you are still young.
Sorry not to be more help. But really, ANY skill you learn will help you, if you can turn around and sell it, or hire yourself out to do it, for either wage or trade and still be able to do it on your own terms (no overhanging, unmanageble debt). Just don’t fall into the trap of thinking that you will need to center your whole life on the government or any company, or any certain type of company, to pay you a certain figure weekly, or to give you retirement, or pay your doctor bills, or help you invest, give you tax breaks, etc. etc.