“I’m happy with the choice I’ve made,” he said. “I started out by following other shepherds and learning the ropes from them. It was not easy. But, day by day, I made progress without becoming too discouraged, sometimes working in pouring rain and at other times under a burning sun.”

A number of other professions are opening their doors to new recruits. Top of the list, compiled by Career Builder, are HR managers (plenty to be done right now in sorting out career problems), construction workers (the Olympics is helping), PR professionals (again, lots of work available on that front), and Midwifery (people keep being born, apparently).