For many, the Oklahoma job market is nothing to brag about. While some areas are seeing improvement, others are not. Thousands of people in the city are still looking for work or are in need to improve their position. In a recent article, Forbes took to comparing the city of Detroit to what the Oklahoma area was like during the Great Depression.

What's The Deal?

In an article about the jobs market, there is one thing that becomes very clear. The jobs in the United States prior to 2008 - the start of the real hit to the jobs in the economic downturn, will never come back as they were. In short, the types of jobs that people were doing in cities like Detroit no longer will be available, period. While new jobs will be created and eventually they will employ people to the fullest level necessary, it is still clear that the types of jobs being done just a few years ago are all but gone.

In the article from Forbes, comparing Detroit, with its nearly non-existent manufacturing industry, to the farm towns of Oklahoma during the Great Depression is a striking comparison. In many ways, it is very accurate. In both instances, the US economy took a hit that would make significant structural ships in the job market. The question is, what will you do to find work if you did work in a field that is no longer necessary? For many, getting new training to enter a new job is the hard part.