Diversity in Industry – What are the major economic industries in the city?

Would like advice on markets to focus on - my key hypothesis is to focus on markets with decent employment rates, growing population and presence of contemporary industries such as tech, healthcare, finance, etc and not relying on manufacturing/agriculture.

I graduate from my master's soon and I'm interested in breaking into the industry.

I see my funds as better used in the real estate industry, so I was actually pretty fast to cash out my 401k funds.

That led me to a financing career as an Finance Manager win the auto industry, where i stayed for about 5 years before leaving to have my daughter.

I would advise reading several books on it and partnering with someone in your market in the industry.

My thoughts are, pay off home loan, take out a (Home Equity Line of Credit) which will amount from 70-75% of the equity I have in the property, with the notion of what it should appraise for considering I'm in the industry, then go maybe down south, possibly Florida, were homes are alot cheaper than NY City with a significant amount of cash from taping into my equity and find homes to BRRRR? 

I work primarily in industrial retail and office so a bit of a grain of salt, but this is from friends and colleagues in the industry.

Certainly a good way to help the industry and/or farm business leads, but I'll bet very few of the sh***y ones would make that effort and/or expose themselves to that (constructively critical at times) feedback and discourse.

Move back home after my internship and find a job in the RE industry.