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Tailor

This one might be tricky, in that every wife sews.  The market might be limited to upscale clients and that might take awhile to be established.  That, or buying fabric in bulk might undercut retail price enough you are competitive.  Still, a bit of a gamble on this one commercially.  Buying bulk quality tools now might be a lucrative source later to supplement income for the lean years.

Prospector/Miner

Scrap will be readily available, true, but many metal items will need to be manufactured from raw ores for its superior quality.  Plus, many ores are the raw material for chemists.  If you can identify ores, and find them, and extract them, you will be much better rewarded than today, when our economic system actually punishes commodity providers.  That situation will not be duplicated without bankers and heavy equipment manufactures present.

Horse Trainer

Anyone can break a horse, poorly, and get it to perform marginally, but those with skill will be the cream rising to the top.  When horses tomorrow are like cars today, you can bet there will be a market for the better ones.  A great trade in that the equipment needed is negligible.  Skill is all, so the investment needed is nothing but time and effort.  Plus, with the costs today of keeping the animals, you won’t have widespread competition at first.

Mortician

The poor can bury their own family.  It isn’t hard, with a shroud and shovel all that is needed.  But in a more populated area, a mortician acts as a public sanitation expert.  You work on volume and know the tricks to prevent disease spreading and use centralized techniques to save time and money.  In a big enough area, you even have specialized grave diggers for the hard work and you just specialize in preservation.  Research old school, alternate preservation techniques.  Obviously, the supply of formaldehyde will be limited.

Logger

Any fool with an ax can fell a tree, but for industrial scale logging you need expensive equipment such as two man saws and harnesses for teams of draft animals, etc.  You provide this equipment and management, the hired help doing the hard labor.  Military fortifications and large businesses and city councils will be ready customers for industrialized logging.

Mason

Preparing stone for builders.  Some investment for specialized tools, but again, mostly skill.  As long as craftsmen level skills are needed.  Anyone can pour loose stones and mortar into a form, masons work mostly in cement poor areas.  Which might be most places, given the energy requirements of cement ( and, perhaps a consideration, its global supply constriction presently ).

Musician

With instrument makers centralized and expensive, music will be both talent and equipment investment heavy.  Without an industrial capacity, instruments will not be available to every family as was the case recently-their practitioners will be compensated accordingly ( entertainment will always have a market ).

Fisherman

On an industrial scale, investment heavy.  In this case, you are not really a fisherman as much as you are a boat owner/operation.  Just beware global fishery depletion now ongoing, and heavy polluted sites elsewhere as constricting realities.

Barber

There was a reason barbers cut hair, shaved men’s faces AND pulled teeth.  The skills needed were modest, but the instruments needed were expensive and not available to each household.  You weren’t paying for the talent as much as the equipment rental.  Quality scissors, straight razors of high quality and professional quality teeth extractors are needed.  In duplicates.

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