Saturday, July 31, 2010
Inspriration
Oh how I would love to own a business again. I don't have anything in mind right now. I think the time is right for the creativity and flexibility small business can bring. The time is right because after all the setbacks I encountered I won't be risking as much. As Janice Joplin put it "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." So I am looking.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
College Degree Required
Its not so much that I don't have a college degree that it bothers me. What really makes me livid is that I am in SALES. I'm not in teaching, accounting, medicine or any field where one would think that a college degree would be a prerequisite. They didn't have a sales course at the time I would have went to college.If they did it would have been taught by a Marxist dope smoking professor in a tweed jacket. I learned sales and marketing through hands on experience and reading 100's of books and listening to hours of tapes/Cd's by salesman. No I did not go to college. I did work with and study my craft -in the real world. Well if they want that piece of paper that proves to them I have a brain then they need to watch the Wizard of Oz a couple more times until they get the point. I worked with educators for over 20 years. I did not have any trouble at all interacting with some of the highest level educators, publishers and authors. In fact with some people I met the higher level the education the less the sales/people skills seemed to be apparent. I think this requirement in sales is well quite frankly added on by someone who hasn't payed off there student loan and thinks if you didn't spend that money you got a free ride.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
How to find a target
My biggest problem is finding a target to shoot at. I have so many skills and interests it's hard to focus. I have prayed about it but to no avail. I'm wondering what God is trying to tell me??
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Resume
I have had to settle for a few jobs that could be best described as "bridge jobs," I am wondering how to explain them away on my resume. I know these are character building times. They are time that try men's souls. I am so ready to tackle that opportunity that leads somewhere. It has been 4 years off and on.
Monday, July 12, 2010
New Ways of Thinking
I have to come up with new ways of thinking in my career objective goals. Short mid and long term. Should I shoot for multiple jobs? Should I find a startup? I know that all starts with having a target. There lies the hard part. I have to find that one area that leads me out of this morass.
Friday, July 09, 2010
Just in the "Pursuit of Happiness."
I loved that movie. It showed me the real America. What I related to was when he bought those "Bone Density Scanners." I was ripped off too like that. Crestcom pushes that kind of thing while trampling on people's American dreams. Shame and blame on you people.
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Employment Blues
Now in the ranks of the under-employed I'm just hanging in there. There are no permanent good jobs and the ones we get demand much and put in little. Pressure is great to push sales in area's that are profit making but not helping the customer at all. Like Radio Shack and the goofy service plans on items such as jump drives and MP3 players. Time Warner really pushed hard on dying land based phones, they punished 76 out of 77 people for not meeting the quota's. Stupid. Oh, well. If any potential employer see's this post and thinks this is all negativity, too bad. Clean up your act. Get fresh products, don't lie in your marketing and behave honestly and ethically. That is the only kind I will work for anyway. I think I may end up homeless, but at least I'll keep my integrity.
Friday, July 02, 2010
Read this then look at my older posts. Am I a prophet?
CNN Money
7.9 million jobs lost, many forever
Chris Isidore, senior writer, On Friday July 2, 2010, 4:28 pm EDT
The recession killed off 7.9 million jobs. It's increasingly likely that many will never come back.
The government jobs report issued Friday shows that businesses have slowed their pace of hiring to a relative trickle.
"The job losses during the Great Recession were so off the chart, that even though we've gained about 600,000 private sector jobs back, we've got nearly 8 million jobs to go," said Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of Economic Cycle Research Institute.
Excluding temporary Census workers, the economy has added fewer than 100,000 jobs a month this year -- a much faster and stronger jobs recovery than occurred following the last two recessions in 2001 and 1991.
But even if that pace of hiring were to double immediately, it would take until 2013 to recapture the lost jobs. And the labor market very likely doesn't have years before it gets hit with the shock of the inevitable next economic downturn.
"It's virtually certain that the next recession will come before the job market has healed from the last recession," said Achuthan. (Read 'Stimulus: The big bang is over')
More frequent recessions: Despite signs of slowing economic growth, Achuthan is not predicting that the U.S. economy is about to fall into another downturn later this year.
But a combination of a slower growth and greater volatility is a prescription for as many as three recessions over the upcoming decade, he said.
"We've entered a era where the United States will see more frequent recessions than anyone is used to," Achuthan said.
One of the big problems is that many of workers who have lost jobs were in industries that are not likely to recover their former strength.
"We've got the wrong people in the wrong place with the wrong skills," said John Silvia, chief economist with Wells Fargo Securities. He said construction workers in California or Florida and auto workers in Michigan will have to relocate and retrain to find new jobs.
"As many as half the people who lost their jobs will have to find something else to do," said Silvia.
Home building lost nearly 1 million jobs since the start of 2008, while the auto industry shed 300,000 manufacturing jobs due to plant closings. The finance and real estate sectors lost more than 500,000 jobs.
"Those are the areas with the biggest bubbles, and so it's not a surprise that those are the areas with some of the biggest job losses," said Scot Melland, CEO of Dice Holdings, a provider of specialized career web sites. "Many of the jobs we lost are never coming back."
More new workers: And recapturing the lost jobs fixes only part of the problem.
The nation's working-age population grows by about 150,000 people a month. So the hole is deeper than it looks.
It would take the creation of 10.6 million jobs immediately for the same percentage of the population to be working as was the case three years ago.
Of course, it will take time to create jobs. If it takes three years, more than 3.5 million additional jobs will be needed because of continued population growth.
The unemployment rate is currently 9.5%. A return to the 4.4% rate it was the summer before the recession started in 2007 is out of reach.
In fact, the Federal Reserve, in its latest forecast, predicts that unemployment will stay around 7% or above through 2012, and in the 5% to 5.3% range in the long-run.
7.9 million jobs lost, many forever
Chris Isidore, senior writer, On Friday July 2, 2010, 4:28 pm EDT
The recession killed off 7.9 million jobs. It's increasingly likely that many will never come back.
The government jobs report issued Friday shows that businesses have slowed their pace of hiring to a relative trickle.
"The job losses during the Great Recession were so off the chart, that even though we've gained about 600,000 private sector jobs back, we've got nearly 8 million jobs to go," said Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of Economic Cycle Research Institute.
Excluding temporary Census workers, the economy has added fewer than 100,000 jobs a month this year -- a much faster and stronger jobs recovery than occurred following the last two recessions in 2001 and 1991.
But even if that pace of hiring were to double immediately, it would take until 2013 to recapture the lost jobs. And the labor market very likely doesn't have years before it gets hit with the shock of the inevitable next economic downturn.
"It's virtually certain that the next recession will come before the job market has healed from the last recession," said Achuthan. (Read 'Stimulus: The big bang is over')
More frequent recessions: Despite signs of slowing economic growth, Achuthan is not predicting that the U.S. economy is about to fall into another downturn later this year.
But a combination of a slower growth and greater volatility is a prescription for as many as three recessions over the upcoming decade, he said.
"We've entered a era where the United States will see more frequent recessions than anyone is used to," Achuthan said.
One of the big problems is that many of workers who have lost jobs were in industries that are not likely to recover their former strength.
"We've got the wrong people in the wrong place with the wrong skills," said John Silvia, chief economist with Wells Fargo Securities. He said construction workers in California or Florida and auto workers in Michigan will have to relocate and retrain to find new jobs.
"As many as half the people who lost their jobs will have to find something else to do," said Silvia.
Home building lost nearly 1 million jobs since the start of 2008, while the auto industry shed 300,000 manufacturing jobs due to plant closings. The finance and real estate sectors lost more than 500,000 jobs.
"Those are the areas with the biggest bubbles, and so it's not a surprise that those are the areas with some of the biggest job losses," said Scot Melland, CEO of Dice Holdings, a provider of specialized career web sites. "Many of the jobs we lost are never coming back."
More new workers: And recapturing the lost jobs fixes only part of the problem.
The nation's working-age population grows by about 150,000 people a month. So the hole is deeper than it looks.
It would take the creation of 10.6 million jobs immediately for the same percentage of the population to be working as was the case three years ago.
Of course, it will take time to create jobs. If it takes three years, more than 3.5 million additional jobs will be needed because of continued population growth.
The unemployment rate is currently 9.5%. A return to the 4.4% rate it was the summer before the recession started in 2007 is out of reach.
In fact, the Federal Reserve, in its latest forecast, predicts that unemployment will stay around 7% or above through 2012, and in the 5% to 5.3% range in the long-run.
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