I should start looking for a new back up plan, VERY SOON.

Mining:
Mining For Diamonds In The Canadian Rough

NPR:
NPR Announces Cuts To Staff, Programs, NPR is cutting 2 shows and laying off 64 people, 7 percent of its work force.

High tech manufacturing:
Sony to cut plants and 8,000 jobs

Baking Rolls:
Post-Bankruptcy Twinkies Face Uncertain Future

Fermintation:
Anheuser-Busch InBev to cut 1,400 US jobs, mostly white collar and contractor jobs in St. Louis.

Printing Paper:
The big brother speaks finally and maybe this will give ME breathing room; AbitibiBowater Announces Action Plan to Address Market Challenges. Approximately 830,000 metric tons of newsprint, 110,000 metric tons of specialty grades and 70,000 metric tons of coated grades will be removed from the marketplace. A total of approximately 1,100 employees are affected by these capacity reductions
Capacity reductions include:
1. The permanent closure by the end of the first quarter of 2009 of the Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador newsprint mill, representing 205,000 metric tons;
2. The permanent closure by the end of 2008 of the Covington, Tennessee paper converting facility, representing 70,000 metric tons of coated grades;
3. The immediate idling, until further notice, of the Alabama River newsprint mill, in Alabama, representing 265,000 metric tons;
4. The immediate idling, until further notice, of two paper machines (# 1 and # 2) in Calhoun, Tennessee, representing 230,000 metric tons of capacity, including 120,000 metric tons of newsprint and 110,000 metric tons of specialty grades; and
5. On a revolving basis, approximately 20,000 metric tons of monthly newsprint downtime at other facilities across the organization until market conditions improve.

Packaging Paper:
PT Paper to close for 10 days minimum on Dec. 19 due to depressed global economy

Printing Press:
Tribune files for bankruptcy protection

PetroChem:
Dow Chemical to slash 5,000 jobs, DC will cut 5,000 full-time jobs and close 20 plants and beginning in january, the world's second largest chemical company will idle 180-plants and cut about 6,000 contractors or about 30 percent of its global contract workforce. That's a people and product.
2,500 employee & 4,000 contractors positions will be eliminated at Dupont

Petroleum:

Petroleum extraction from the Canadian tar sands is draining the underground water table and reducing the flow of the rivers northward, and the effects are felt hundreds of miles away, he said.

Native hunters: Climate is thinning caribou herds