To all working professionals: would you consider the growth outlook in your industry/sector of the economy to be positive or negative over the next 12 months?

📈 Positive (37%) – "The commercial real estate industry shows signs of a good year. It varies by market, but we are seeing multi-family, industrial and even retail demand increase."

• "To a certain degree, we are somewhat recession proof. Traders gonna trade, regardless of what the larger economy is doing."

"It’s property insurance and everyone is scared to death that some sort of tragedy will befall them due to climate change."

📉 Negative (63%) – "I work for an American consumer goods brand that imports products from China, Taiwan and other overseas places. Like many similar businesses in the US who’s jobs rely on foreign imports and suppliers our business will suffer, prices will increase and jobs may be lost."

• "I am in the transportation business. The industrial sector has been weak the last 12 plus months. A tell tale sign is when trucks are idle and scrap metal is not flowing. Both indicators are quiet… there doesn’t appear to be any good news on the horizon. The new leadership is just creating a lot of chaos and uncertainty around the overall economy."

"I'm funded by the National Cancer Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health. Changes in how funding operates, like indirect cost reductions, could result in our entire organization not being able to function and having to shutdown. And that assumes the last two years of our five-year grant will even continue to be funded."

• "Sales have been dismal. Our sales depend on impulse buys and gifts. I think people are cutting back on “feel good” spending because of uncertainty and high prices for necessities."

"The new administration wants to slash the department of education. All that federal money to support school will slash public education. Companies are weary of any and all risky investments because of the volatile nature of the President. All those numbers are from the last residual effects of sanity in the White House."