It’s an easy job market.
Log onto Rigzone.net to see what I mean.
The oil patch gets more new *jobs* each day than resumes, most of which pay 6 figures and require no high school diploma.
Little or no training. $100,000+ salaries.
Pause...
You see, the problem isn’t a lack of jobs. The problem is that people have learned to milk unemployment, social security, Section 8 free rent, disability, aid for dependent mothers with children, and a host of welfare programs such that they don’t have to **MOVE** to find a job.
Why work?!
Ever see “The Grapes of Wrath” movie?
Depression-era farming family gets hit by the dustbowl (can’t grow crops there any longer) and packs up to move to California (gasp... “did that mean Man say MOVE?!”) because California was hiring more grape pickers (more jobs) than it had applicants.
MOVE
TO
WHERE
THE
JOBS
ARE
LOCATED
This is not rocket science. The unemployed are just too soft...too spoiled...to move to find work.
Sam Kineson did a great skit on that mentality back in the 1980’s where he pointed out that the best thing the West could do for starving Africans was to buy them suitcases to “MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!”
...most people are stupid. And lazy.
And we live in an Idiocracy.
The jobs are aplenty...they just aren’t in the dead Rustbelt cities like Flint, Michigan.
WWW.Rigzone.net
No more excuses. Go get a job. “That mean man wants us to *WORK* in snowy North Dakota.”
rigzone.COM
Thanks...
In this horrendous job market, if I were to become unemployed tomorrow, I’d be on six interviews by midweek and be employed by Friday. That’s because I took the time (shudder) to work hard (puke puke puke) and become excellently skilled in my field. Then I worked (OMG) really hard (NFW!!!) and developed a great reputation around town.
I agree with you to a point, but with the economy the way it is (ruined by government regulation/manipulation), one of the great advantages of the US labor market - mobility - has been lost. It’s hard to sell a house compared to 10 years ago. And, many people are STILL upside-down or close to it, leaving them with nothing to move with.
Under these conditions, I would not as a young person BUY a house until I was in my late 30’s and pretty well established in a career. And even then, I would advise buying “too little” of a house - the more expensive a house is, the harder it is to sell, good times or bad.
For the fun of it, I posted my resume (IT support mostly) to see what if anything kicks back. Right now I am doing OK and can’t complain too much but it doesn’t hurt to be prepared in case things change at the office.
There is no way there are enough jobs to make up for those that have gone overseas in the past decades; pointing to low unemployment in low-population states is disingenuous.
The work the Joad family took in “The Grapes of Wrath” isn’t even offered to Americans anymore.
So I see.