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The two groups of people who will still need hired-out services are the elderly and the disabled. I am already imagining how I would move furniture around to take in a boarder who would do work around the house in exchange for a place to live, if need be. OTH, the jobs that used to be done by teenagers - babysitting, shoveling snow after a blizzard, etc - are going undone or being done by the people who once hired them. My daughter said you simply can't get a sitter except a professional, and they are expensive and booked up tight. When we had the Big Snow in Albuquerque two years ago, I nibbled away at the walkways until I could get them cleared, and was grateful the snow was easier to handle than some.

So what are the teenagers doing? If they're not involved up to their back teeth in scheduled activities, they are working for business for free, aka internships, and in any event, have very heavy school schedules. Will the recession change any of that? It's bound to, but I'm not sure how.