‘Thots?’
We’re ALL Free Agents. Always have been, always will be, no matter where we are in this world.
My advice? Get your sorry @ss some MARKETABLE skills. CREATE something or DO something or KNOW something that people will PAY you to create/do/know for them.
Be a Problem Solver!
Same as it ever was...
Not sure how many of your family members or friends are looking for tech jobs, employed in technology or perhaps unemployed in technology....but what you say is much easier said than done in this economy...
Many of the tech workers have gotten their “sorry @ss some MARKETABLE skills,” but they are being replaced due to unfair labor practices (H-1B visa workers are not supposed to be replacing qualified US workers) and unfair wage competition (indenturing the foreign workers because they must be sponsored by a company to work here, so they can be underpaid and overworked as they cannot easily change companies).
Oh, and many displaced US workers have “CREATEed something or DOne something or KNOWn something that people will PAY them to create/do/know for them”. However, they are often working two jobs or part-time jobs as companies have resorted to hiring part time workers to avoid Obamacare, etc.
As it has often been repeated, in this day and age of increased regulation and global competition, companies such as Microsoft, Dell, and Apple would not have been easily started if at all...
Fewer and fewer jobs are safe...getting MARKETABLE skills will become more and more difficult when one is competing with a low-paid foreign worker, a computer with AI or a robot can do the job 24/7 with no health insurance required....
I seem to recall that you work in agriculture/
horticulture. You may be interested to know that some say that human plant breeders will soon become obsolete as computers can do a better job of picking particular varieties, etc, so agriculture jobs in Wisconsin are not immune to dislocation. My point is that no jobs are immune and although I know what you say can be done, it is smug to imply that it is easy...don’t worry about quadrupling H-1B visa workers in this soft economy ...
just learn some skills & be a problem solver...as anyone on FR knows, the world is a very complicated troubled place....
Yikes. You’re a downer. IMHO there is pretty much nothing a person can’t rise above. Maybe a terminal illness, or being disabled, but if you’re able-bodied and can’t find SOMETHING to do with your life, the onus is on you.
So WHAT if you have to work two part time jobs? Plenty of people do it. I work one full time job, have a job from home, take care of my elderly father, farm on a small scale and soon I’ll be farming full time...while also working part time.
Whiners, Everywhere! Get it together. You’re an American and you live in the last place on EARTH where you can still do this.
Look at our President. For the love of all that’s holy, the guy has never worked a day in his LIFE - and he’s the freakin’ PRESIDENT of the United States of America! LOL!
*SOBBING*
Yes. And I’m very concerned that ROBOTS are going to take over my job. *Rolleyes*
I’m sticking by my initial ‘thots.’ Yours are defeatist in every sense of the word.