There is an argument that says someone starting out in
any new career is going to have difficulty in the coming years; the problem is not unique to aviation. Of course some career choices attract more risk and debt than others.
If you want to be as recession proof as some encourage, you need to go to medical school. The only problems there are that:
a. You need to be intelligent
b. By the time you graduate we will be well out of the recession.
c. You'll still be in massive debt.
Oh, as an alternative you could spend the next 5 years reading, and re-reading WWWs incessant, one line message. This is really getting tedious.