As Jobs Come Back, It's a New Game

WALL STREET JOURNAL ^ | 10/12/03 | JON E. HILSENRATH

[Pikamax]

The nation's long run of rising joblessness might finally be coming to an end.

For workers who have been locked out of the job market during this plodding 23-month recovery, this could mean a long-awaited chance to get back in. But it won't be an easy task: The labor market is changing dramatically in many industries, even as the overall level of employment inches higher.

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[Dallas59]

Temporary jobs? Why go to College then?

[Doctor Stochastic]

The labor market is changing dramatically in many industries...

A permanently true statement.

[lizma]

I'm presently not in the US workforce by choice.

Figure in about two years I'll go back to school to prepare to rejoin. You guys have any suggestions?

Love Math and Science.

[1066AD]

Temporary jobs? Why go to College then?
Well, depends what the meaning of "is" is so to speak, when you get right down to it they're all "temporary" these days...some last longer than others is the only difference.
If you can somehow continually justify your existence in an environment of ever shifting(and often invisible) rules you may be OK, otherwise you're offshore toast to satisfy Wall Street's short term focus - and CEO's bonus don't forget.

[texastoo]

Intepreter of as many languages as possible.

[texastoo]

Oops, wrong spelling.

Interpreter

[ARCADIA]

Temporary jobs = Plenty of new socialist recruits.

[nutmeg]

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[WilliamofCarmichael]

As a result, economists say this recovery will be rocky for millions of workers trying to navigate the shifting sands of an economy that reorganizes entire industries with increasingly brutal efficiency.

This is indisputable. Yet. to post this fact here as a comment often leads to name-calling. Go figure. It's a fact of life. The stock market may be celebrating put the classic job lag is not a lag -- it's another era.

What's causing all this turmoil? For one thing, the U.S. economy today is much different than it was 20 years ago, when recoveries tended to go hand-in-hand with job-market gains.

Another indisputable fact that often elicits howls and derision. Things have changed as pointed out in the paragraph following this one in the article.

For workers, this presents a unique challenge. To thrive in today's turbulent job market, they must target industries that are most likely to hire in the future, and get the training needed to compete for jobs in those industries.

Up until just a couple of years ago that'd be IT. :>) Now it's nursing!? Just when I'm reading about how it's cheaper to fly patients.. you got it, off shore!

A Major Shift

A sea change, not a recession! Been saying it for years. Also been asking for years, what does it do to our national security to be pouring so much technology and resources off shore?

[GrandMoM]

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[lizma]

Yikes. Don't think 4 years of Latin will take me very far!

My mind is calculating without an ounce of creativity, or the ability to spell or learn a language (to me they're the same thing.) What jobs should I shoot for?

[Drammach]

Engineering.

Personally, I would suggest space/aviation technology.

[fire_eye]

5 years ago, I would have agreed with you. But now, even the engineering jobs are going overseas to - get this: "Lower-cost geographies".

I was at a meeting of fellow unemployed engineers the other day, and one of those present asked "What field do we need to transfer into, that will be "recession-proof" the way we thought engineering was?"

Nobody had an answer...

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

There is no such thing as a jobless recovery. Who has "recovered" if people cannot find work? An economic recovery is not just a few executives and investors making a financial killing.

Widespread unemployment will change who gets elected next year. Count on it.

[Dick Vomer]

Do what you love then start a company and do that for a "living". Work for yourself that way you get paid to do what you want to do....... and have no excuse about "the man" keeping you down. If you love selling.... sell stuff, making things then make things, helping people.... help people, but whatever it is you find you love to do , have a passion for it.

Then you won't join the faceless mass of people who are on the credit binge, slave to paycheck, paycheck equates happiness treadmill.

[RaceBannon]

If its a new ball game, I hope they let Connecticut in the league...

[keats5]

Nursing is begging for jobs, and I loved it when I was in the field. I'm at home with kids now, but the headhunters have been chasing me down to get back into the field. If you love math and science, you would use those skills.

[RaceBannon]

become an electrical engineer with a minor in manufacturing engineering

you can program all the cnc machines they are using in China