Top ten best and most exportable Lebanese professions

Its hard to know which career paths to recommend to our young people. After all, a bad career choice can lead to a lifetime of regrets. Below are a few I came up with off the top of my head.

Top ten best and most exportable Lebanese professions:

  1. Entertainers: Singers, actors of stage and screen, dancers, TV presenters, news readers. Graduates of conservatories or Arab Idol only need apply!
  2. Food and beverage professionals: Proprietors of Falafel and Shawarma shops, Lebanese restaurants, Lebanese bakeries and sweets shops, chefs, cooks, maître d'hôtel. We have a decent school to train F&B professionals
  3. Marketing and advertising professionals: All you need is a quick wit and a smooth tongue and a couple of neat suits, plus a basic college degree and some experience and you are all set to go
  4. Tailors: Training needed is minimal, artistic flair and self confidence counts for a lot. It’s easy to dismiss a lowly tailor’s life until you consider some of the haute couture labels that have come out of this country and reached the pinnacle of success in Hollywood and Paris.
  5. Hairdressers: A close companion to the tailor to the stars is the hairdresser to the stars. Everyone needs a good hairdresser or barber, a bad hair day is just not worth going to a second rate hairdresser for. So demand for the good ones will never dry up.
  6. Retailers: The Lebanese have had the greatest success abroad, in the Gulf in particular, with highly exportable retail brands which includes all products across the spectrum, from clothing to food.
  7. Media professionals: Graphic designers, writers, artists and creative people of all types will always be highly sought after
  8. Doctors and nurses: Well, we were once the healthcare capital of the Arab world, once a long time ago, so our medical professionals’ reputation remains solid and intact.
  9. Journalists: Yes, we’re not the top of the job market food chain, rather somewhere close to the bottom, sadly, journalism in Lebanon has suffered from a crisis of credibility and trust, fault lies not with individual journalists but with news organizations.
  10. Lawyers: It’s kind of gratifying to put lawyers at the bottom of the list! J

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