Logistics is an area where you can a job with the air services, government services(like DOD)retail businesses or even set up shop as an expeditor-shipping stuff out to the Bush..
Sure, there is gloom and doom but I notice that Matsu is building new schools and expanding. Cabelas and Basspro wouldn't expand to Anchorage if they didn't like what they saw for a forecast model.
Sure Alaska has to tighten its belt but if you want you can find a way to live up here.