Live music. People see big concerts happening and assume live music is doing pretty much as well as it always has. Not true. Small and medium sized venues are struggling hard. Local bands are struggling hard and small to medium sized touring acts are struggling hard.

People don't go and seek out live music like they did 20 years ago. Small live music bars with built in crowds of regulars who would always show up to check out the band of the week used to be common place, today they are very very rare.

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Journalism. The world's press is now just basically 3 prompt engineers and a premium chatgpt account

Serious concerns ought to be raised about the wellbeing of the 4th estate.

JeelyPiece , Markus Winkler Report

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Local news. They rarely talk about local issues other than deaths and weather. Zero local coverage in the recent election.

Ewggggg , ThisisEngineering Report

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The newspaper industry. Everyone assumes it’s just a shift to online, but a lot of local papers are closing down or laying off staff left and right.

Inevitable_Beat1725 , Rajesh S Balouria Report

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Customer Service - I honestly don't think people realize how bad this is going to be in a generation.

AUnicornDonkey , Mikhail Nilov Report

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According to a video I just watched; MLMs. Which is a good thing.

edit: this is the video

loritree , Felicity Tai Report

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One industry that’s struggling more than people realize is the traditional retail industry.. especially brick-and mortar stores. While e-commerce has been growing for years it’s becoming harder for physical stores to compete even with big names. The shift to online shopping while larger retailers are grappling with overstock shrinking foot traffic and increased labor costs. Even big box stores are now closing locations or shifting to a more digital first model. It’s a quieter crisis but it’s one that’s reshaping the landscape of how we shop.

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The Nightlife industry. Bars and Clubs in cities are dying, the high cost of living doesn’t help, people put way less money in social activities. On the other hand, there never has been this many DJ’s or people who want to be a DJ.

London, which is a pilliar for Electronic Music lost 37% of its Clubs in the past 4 years.

Edit: Lots of y’all are just getting older and don’t want to admit it.

vinnybawbaw , Michael Kucharski Report

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Every trade. They really think they can pay people 13-15 dollars an hour when the cheapest one bedroom not in the ghetto is 1200-1400 a month.

2 year degree, 8k worth of tools to get started in mine. The old heads wonder why the new guys quit when they get paid flat rate and you’re hiding their tools to f*ck with them at work.

This next generation wants to be paid a liveable wage, not be abused, and to come to work to work. I’m all for them. Shops charge 200 a flat rate hour for jobs and pay these guys 15-30. It’s abysmal. They can afford to pay people what they are worth. Every business can.

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The auto industry but, they really did it to themselves. Too much inventory, no one buying the high end trucks because they're too pricey.

I work for a plant that makes parts for the big 3 and we've been barely working 4 days a week, where pre-pandemic we were working 6/7 days.

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The alcohol business; the craft beer bubble burst, wine is failing to capture any young demographic. Younger demographics tend to drink less (for health reasons, cost reasons, and many just prefer [grass] instead). The biggest alcohol distributor in the country just laid off around 3500 people across the country.

Yes, people will always drink, but the worse the economy gets, the more people will trade down to the cheap stuff.

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I've been a professional video editor for the last 12 years, and have never gone more than a week without a job, I've made stuff for many of the country's biggest brands, and have a solid resume.

For the first time in my life, I've been submitting resumes every single day for the last four months and have not had one interview.

It's tough out there right now, fingers crossed my luck takes a turn!

nomercyvideo , Jakob Owens Report

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Dry cleaners — wfh and more casual wear, some places may never go back to anywhere near the same volume.

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Trucking. I have been in transportation for 36 years and you would be scared to drive on the same road if you met some of these truck drivers. Up until Covid you would have a bad driver come through once in awhile now it’s rare to have a driver that understands basic instructional. How are they passing driver tests?

I try to stay off the freeways whenever possible.

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Since COVID, hospitality. Where I worked used to be packed all weekend, now we have nights on the weekend where we have more staff than customers. We used to never leave before midnight, now we can be cleaning by 10 and having our shifties by 11. I've been working at my place for 5 years now, bar COVID (obviously) this summer was the least busy I've ever seen it.

ellerzz , Ketut Subiyanto Report

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There are rumors that Broadway is about to collapse. No one can afford the ticket costs anymore.

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This one's a bit niche, but being a luthier in the US is about to get a whole lot more expensive if those tariffs end up being put in place. Pretty much every kind of wood used on violins guitars and other adjacent instruments is imported, not to mention all the tools you need.

If all goes well, I'll be making and repairing violins professionally after I graduate in spring, which is pretty cool. I picked a bad time to get into the field though, at least there's a high demand for it.

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Agriculture industry.

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Restaurant Industry is struggling way more than it seems.. sure, some high-end spots or fast food chains are thriving, but independent, family-owned restaurants are still reeling from the pandemic. Rising food costs, staff shortages and tighter margins are making it nearly impossible for many small restaurants to stay open, even if they seem busy on the surface. It’s an industry that always looks lively but hides a lot of financial struggles behind the scenes.

starlitsinsxo , Rachel Claire Report

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Retail pharmacy.

Complete lack of PBM regulation and corporate greed is going to lead to massive closures across the country.

tomismybuddy , cottonbro studio Report

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Public works - we are all wildly understaffed and any applications we receive are wildly unqualified for the work. When roads, bridges, drainage, snow maintenance, etc fail in the near future, there won't be anyone to help :(.

PrettyActuality , Radik 2707 Report

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Teaching.

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Lineman for powerlines. All the experience is retiring.
It's a huge change right now.

Lonely-Ad-6448 , American Public Power Association Report

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Film and TV. Barely anything has been shooting so most of us are out of work. We're literally using the motto 'Stay Alive Til 25'.

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Emergency medical services, Paramedics and such.

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