Exactly correct. Speaking as a TOP salesperson for twenty years in industrial and direct sales. There are lots and lots of jobs, if you want to work for free and invest in some company with the hope that they would actually pay you a commission when you do sell some of their crap. Very little available and what is available has HUNDREDS of applications for every slot.
The economy in all sectors outside of Oil and Gas is dead on its back flat at best. Very few can get retrained into Petroleum Engineering in their late thirties or forties and beyond and even if they could are they willing to leave their wives, children or take a massive loss on the house to North Dakota.
All this is a set up for more H1B1 visas for more Foreign slaves to do the work that companies refuse to pay Americans to do!
“All this is a set up for more H1B1 visas for more Foreign slaves to do the work that companies refuse to pay Americans to do!”
That’s very well put; to hear people saying Americans “don’t want to do” the work is sickening and evil. Our “help wanted” ads are mostly sales (telemarketing), they don’t pay much, and you have to be bilingual; on top of that few people have money for anything beyond bare necessities.