tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9619963.post6789541427257697308..comments2023-12-08T12:50:34.303-08:00Comments on W.C. Varones: Greenspan's Walking DeadW.C. Varoneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663570682958847976noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9619963.post-33378691571469981342010-08-09T22:51:08.235-07:002010-08-09T22:51:08.235-07:00WC,
This story is certainly tragic, but also cauti...WC,<br />This story is certainly tragic, but also cautionary. Some of your commenters have already made good points, but I also note that there are <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704895004575395491314812452-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwODEwNDgyWj.html" rel="nofollow">jobs going begging</a>, if someone is willing to get the training. At some point you have to take any job and count on your skills and tenacity to allow you to work your way up the ladder.<br /><br />When I left the Navy, I took a significant pay cut, even counting my Navy retirement check. I could have clung to my Navy career for a few more years but I would have been forced out eventually. I saw the need to start a new career and took it. When I started my new position, I put a midshipman (naval cadet) anchor on security badge lanyard to remind myself that I was starting over and I wasn't entitled to anything, no matter what I had previously accomplished. Sometimes the right attitude goes a long way.B-Daddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13880092017105841256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9619963.post-49454475006111711772010-08-09T22:19:35.811-07:002010-08-09T22:19:35.811-07:00I didn't even bother looking for work, I just ...I didn't even bother looking for work, I just started two new businesses. Sure I'm not making much now, but that could change. There's far more hope and enjoyment rather than hitting one's head against a wall. Sending out 1,300 resumes wasn't too bright. First you start with a few hundred to see what the responses are. Then you readjust your strategy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9619963.post-45486161776371989022010-08-09T16:58:36.262-07:002010-08-09T16:58:36.262-07:00They should pay unemployed people their old salary...They should pay unemployed people their old salary the first week they're unemployed, then lower it 10% per week.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9619963.post-31925743986476319062010-08-09T16:53:41.684-07:002010-08-09T16:53:41.684-07:00JDA,
That's what FDR did in GD I with the WP...JDA, <br /><br />That's what FDR did in GD I with the WPA and the CCC and a whole bunch of other BS initials for make-work jobs.<br /><br />When this depression started, I thought Obama would do the same thing. But no, he's just bailing out the banks and the public employee unions and letting the little people sink.W.C. Varoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17663570682958847976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9619963.post-70981294956882544802010-08-09T15:47:37.830-07:002010-08-09T15:47:37.830-07:00Here's what we do... instead of tearing up asp...Here's what we do... instead of tearing up asphalt because we can't afford to keep roads maintained, we give all the unemployed jobs doing menial shit like paving roads for minimum wage - that's all they are making on unemployment anyway, right?<br /><br />Going by Obama's math, we should get a good 200% return for our troubles... by saving $35 an hour that would have been spent in stimulus money to pay some overpriced Caltrans idiots to do the work. <br /><br />There are all sorts of things that need to be done around here... the Eisenhower freeways are falling apart, monuments need to be polished, the White House lawn needs to be maintained... etc etc. Someone's got to shine the emblem on Obama's Towncar, right? Why not some unemployed guy?<br /><br />The problem IS the sense of entitlement. Granted, the REAL problem is that the banksters made off with the jobs and the cash and we're left holding the bag BUT we cannot change that reality and just have to accept that America is on its way to becoming the third world, if it isn't already (I live in San Francisco, I can say that because if human excrement in the street isn't third world I don't know what is). Therefore we better get used to stitching up Nikes for India's elite and stop bitching.<br /><br />The dumbing down of America backfired. At least in the 50s we were stupid but skilled enough to punch widgets at the factory. Now we're so dumb we can't even figure out how to do that and they've since outsourced widget-punching to some factory in Shanghai where workers will happily lose fingers for $2 a day.<br /><br />Whoopsie! Really bumbled that one, didn't we?Jr Deputy Accountanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12886649539758133191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9619963.post-37298082371130072732010-08-09T15:14:36.121-07:002010-08-09T15:14:36.121-07:00Easier said than done, Charlie.
What kinds of job...Easier said than done, Charlie.<br /><br />What kinds of jobs do you think the world needs millions of extremely overpaid Americans to do?W.C. Varoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17663570682958847976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9619963.post-43665990693188014112010-08-09T14:08:14.597-07:002010-08-09T14:08:14.597-07:00The difference between this depression and the las...The difference between this depression and the last one is the sense of entitlement among the jobless.<br /><br />When the buggy-whip factories went out of business, no one expected the government to offer jobs in a new buggy-whip factory.<br /><br />Fat overpaid Americans doing IT--and a lot of other things--is the next buggy whip. Save yourselves, you suckers at the government tit, and get some skills the world can use.Charlie McDangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804446793739355030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9619963.post-71090378401475970832010-08-09T06:11:12.684-07:002010-08-09T06:11:12.684-07:00Being an IT professional myself I concur with the ...Being an IT professional myself I concur with the recent commentary that it is bad news to spend so much time out of the game as far as your chances of finding a new job. If I get into that situation, one thing I'm planning on doing is volunteering my programming skills to a school or church or non-profit just to stay in the game. Just so when I go to interviews I can show that I am working on the technology. I am hitting against real pitchers, so to say. <br /><br />My point and recommendation for anyone in the IT world in this situation is - be humble and just work. Even if it is for far below what you perceive is market value, stay in the game at any cost, at all cost. If I see a resume that shows the person hasn't worked in a year then sorry-for-you-to-say, it's not something I'm going to consider if I have a choice. <br /><br />~ NLNegocios Loucoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12473763866587661478noreply@blogger.com