What's SF's industry?
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San Francisco has a number of different focus areas. Since the mid 1990s there has been a lot of web-based companies. They died off to some extent at the end of 2000, but there is still a core of companies in the city. South of the city around San Mateo (Silicon Valley) there are some of the IT big players such as Oracle, Sybase, Google, Yahoo! and others, as well as Visa Card's main office. Thomas Dolby's company HeadSpace is located in San Mateo also.\n\nSan Francisco also has a pretty bug tourism industry centered mostly around Fisherman's Wharf but there are always waitressing, bussing, restaurant, bar, and cafe jobs all over the place. This makes it ideal to go to college here and colleges in the area include Stanford, SFU, and San Francisco State, as well as the Community College. There's a lot of restaurants and bars, sandwich/deli establishments.\n\nDowntown there are a lot of banks and other major businesses, such as accounting, finance, some oil company offices. There's also a healthy retail industry downtown, and also in outlying areas such as Haight Street.\n\nDespite it being confined to the peninsula there really isn't any limit to what you can find in and around San Francisco. A lot of people commute over to Oakland and the surrounding areas of the East Bay. There's a sizeable downtown area in Oakland too.\n\nThere are two pretty major airports: SFO and Oakland International.\n\nNorth of San Francisco is Marin and Sausalito. LucasFilm is based around there (south of Strawberry). It's also not out of the bounds of reality to commute north and work in the Napa wine industry, and there is also dispersed tourism in the north, around Russian River and Napa.\n\nAs far as living in San Francisco: it's the best place I ever lived, but it suffers from terribly expensive real estate value and crazy expensive rent. Expect to pay at least $1500/month for a one bedroom apartment. The weather is a pretty constant 65 degress except in mid-winter when it will be a little cooler. There are so many things to do that you will never be bored. You can spend all weekend eating out and going to various places, and then spend all night in one of the various clubs or bars. There is a lot of surprising live entertainment, though you either have to go south or to the Easy Bay for most 'large' concerts. The only major venue in the city ('North San Francisco') is the Fillmore (think 'Grateful Dead').\n\nSan Francisco is ground zero for 'alternative', as in truly alternative lifestyles, music, people. You'll see a lot of things you just don't anywhere else. It as though anything goes. It's also a very cosmopolitan city and you'll meet people from all over the world on a daily basis.
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Please explain what you mean by 'sick industry', I do not understand.
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or in front! doesn't matter :D\n\nI guess you meant what kind of professions are involved in this area, so there goes:\ngraphic artists, digital video producers, flash/html programmers, 3d modelling artists and programmers.\nIt really depends on the kind of multimedia you're lookign at.\nIf it's a documentary about something film making people are usually involved in too.
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Production jobs are now in other countries; \nprocessing jobs have been taken over by computers.\nThat leaves service jobs, which don't always have\nthe highest wages.  Some of the higher paying jobs\nrequire more education such as educators, doctors,\nattorneys, etc.  Find an interest: if you like \nanimals work in an animal shelter, if you like yard\nwork, work for a lawn service.  Not one industry \nthat I can think of has more opportunities than others.
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San Francisco is a really cool city with lots of things to do.  The whole Bay Area is beautiful.  There are a few drawbacks though.  First, the cost of living is extremely high, it is one of the most expensive places to live.  Second, it is pretty difficult to find a professional job there, I don't know what you do, but I'd recommend you research job opportunities first.
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I'm currious what you think is screwed up.  I find San Francisco to be one of the nicest cities in the United States.  I would argue that in many areas it should be a model to other cities.
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I have been getting  Analog SF&F magazine for many years.When I saw your question, the first thing I thought of was Science Fiction being not-true stories based on some concept of science - like space travel, aliens, other worlds, robots, etc. \nI thought of non-science fiction as horror - monsters, many of Stephen King's stories,  or Fantasy  - fairies,  trolls,\ndragons - like Anne Mc Caffery's books, or even Fairy Tales  - like the Brothers Grimm.\nThe neat thing about Science Fiction is that much of what was Science Fiction 20 years ago, is now Science Fact.\nSome Science Fiction writers are  neuclear physicists,\nsome work for Nasa (I guess they get to see plans for all kinds of new things way ahead of time!) One writer even designed one of the Mars rovers.  We will never leave this planet in my lifetime, so science fiction is the only way I get to 'see' other worlds,  and other species.\nGood Luck with your debate!
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It is the broad categories of industries\n\nFYI - the most common industry classification system has been the SIC code (U.S. Standard Industrial Classification) system...the U.S. government is trying to get folks to switch to their NAICS code (North American Industry Classification System) which was jointly developed by the U.S., Canada and Mexico...but, change happens slowly
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strip club,porn industry
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Commercial art\nPhotography
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Very wise question.\n\nIt might be interesting to note that industries such as telecommunications, leisure & entertainment, utility (energy, water) range from "stable" during recessions to "booming" when economy picks-up; while other traditional industries suffer downtrend.\n\nOf the 3, "leisure & entertainment" is the most attractive because it encompasses a whole spectrum of activities that are cash-driven - management skills and expertise in this sector are in demand especially in emerging China.\n\nAvoid careers in industries that require heavy technology(automobile, aircraft, steel, etc) because they would be one of the early casualties in a recession; and they are the most resistant to assimilate high-technology.\n\nCareers with excellent propects include: Bio-Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Medical-Science, Computer Science\n\n"You Hired!"
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The industry is the pharmaceutical industry.
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Big biotech industry in Seattle are in WA. Go university of washington to study biochem, genetics or something.
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Good luck! Marketing is very interesting, and the fashion industry is also... so you've chosen a very interesting field of interest - go for it!
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This source link has been at for a while.  They expect to have 50% of the industry by the time "others catch up".\n\nI you are looking for a "ground floor opportunity" check out this link: http://tinyurl.com/ee4lt
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San Francisco, California, US
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Total guess but the artichoke capital of the world -Castroville?  No thats not it.  How about San Francisco itself?  There's a few flakes there.