If There Are No Jobs, What Do You Do?
No Job? It has been many years since I worked for an employer and at the age of 51 I feel I am not in a good position as a candidate for employment.
I have worked for myself for over 15 years and since the economy has taken a dive my expertise in Consumer Electronics has dried up with little to no business Advertising doesn't seem to work unless I do it for nothing and people are getting by without my help anymore.
What is a poor guy to do? Going to work for hamburger wages just doesn't seem to be right and who in the heck will hire someone that will leave as soon as an opportunity arises? No one.
Oh and I am stuck in my ways and am not as trainable as someone that has no idea of what solving a problem is like.
I am a thinker, a troubleshooter and have a keen eye for seeing things that can be improved or where it is broken.
I have been a repairer of many things from cars to plumbing to changing out a micro chip.
My talents are vast and people use to pay me well for the things I could do.
Now I am over priced, an ancient artifact that will be dug up someday and honored for being a lost mammal that has fossilized.
I feel an Ice Age Coming, or is it here already? For the last ten years I have been seeing this trend coming but I never thought it would get to this point where we are all becoming consumers of China Goods.
We have become such consumers that we pay without questioning or shopping.
Cost beats quality and quality out lasts costs.
You get what you pay for and buying China is what you are going to get.
Our factories have moved, we have dollar stores and drive through budget menu's and our cell phones tied around our necks.
As the cost of living takes another hike I feel most of us will not know what that is until we buy milk and bread.
When the Hot Dog is Cheaper than the Bun I feel we have hit a weird world.
The price of bread is going up and you have to eat, so you buy the hot dog because it is cheaper, but you get no bun because it is to expensive.
We will go through life wondering how the rich can afford the hot dog and the bun.
Can you afford the condiments? No you get the Hot Dog, everything else has a price of luxury if you want to add to the hot dog.
So we are at that stage, you maybe able to afford the car but the insurance and gas will cost you dearly, possibly more than what the car is worth.
So where will the money come from if we are not making the hot dogs and all the stuff that can go with a hot dog comes from another country? If we are not making our own how will be able to afford to buy at all? Is this where we are really heading? We need jobs and we needed them yesterday.
As each day passes nothing is being done to rectify our countries situation.
I myself would like to see a 400 percent tax on imports.
I would think that businesses might move back to the US to sell their products at a fair market value.
But I wonder if that would work because we are such consumers and seem not to fear a large price, we seem to pay it and we don't care about the quality anymore.
I need it now attitude is killing us and supporting other counties.
Until we curb our enthusiasm as consumers we will not get those jobs.
I guess what really makes me think as the US has been buying and paying for everyone is if I am not making money how in the heck will I be able to contribute to all the money they are spending? If I am not earning then I am not paying taxes.
So where in the hell did the brain go that came up with this grand plan of letting business leave this country? Who in the hell said i think it is a good idea to put a pipe 5 miles deep in the ocean knowing how fragile the environment is? I believe the same people are making some stupid fundamental decisions that are costing you and me on a huge long term scale.
So, start a new career, and time is not on my side.
I could go to school and learn how to become a nurse so I can watch that industry fail ten years from now after all the baby boomer's move on.
How in the heck will that gap be filled ten years from now? So I predict that we are just at the beginning of this adjustment going into the Informational Age.
Those who grasp it will be further ahead and those who don't will have to decide, Do I get the Hot Dog or Do I get The Bun?
I have worked for myself for over 15 years and since the economy has taken a dive my expertise in Consumer Electronics has dried up with little to no business Advertising doesn't seem to work unless I do it for nothing and people are getting by without my help anymore.
What is a poor guy to do? Going to work for hamburger wages just doesn't seem to be right and who in the heck will hire someone that will leave as soon as an opportunity arises? No one.
Oh and I am stuck in my ways and am not as trainable as someone that has no idea of what solving a problem is like.
I am a thinker, a troubleshooter and have a keen eye for seeing things that can be improved or where it is broken.
I have been a repairer of many things from cars to plumbing to changing out a micro chip.
My talents are vast and people use to pay me well for the things I could do.
Now I am over priced, an ancient artifact that will be dug up someday and honored for being a lost mammal that has fossilized.
I feel an Ice Age Coming, or is it here already? For the last ten years I have been seeing this trend coming but I never thought it would get to this point where we are all becoming consumers of China Goods.
We have become such consumers that we pay without questioning or shopping.
Cost beats quality and quality out lasts costs.
You get what you pay for and buying China is what you are going to get.
Our factories have moved, we have dollar stores and drive through budget menu's and our cell phones tied around our necks.
As the cost of living takes another hike I feel most of us will not know what that is until we buy milk and bread.
When the Hot Dog is Cheaper than the Bun I feel we have hit a weird world.
The price of bread is going up and you have to eat, so you buy the hot dog because it is cheaper, but you get no bun because it is to expensive.
We will go through life wondering how the rich can afford the hot dog and the bun.
Can you afford the condiments? No you get the Hot Dog, everything else has a price of luxury if you want to add to the hot dog.
So we are at that stage, you maybe able to afford the car but the insurance and gas will cost you dearly, possibly more than what the car is worth.
So where will the money come from if we are not making the hot dogs and all the stuff that can go with a hot dog comes from another country? If we are not making our own how will be able to afford to buy at all? Is this where we are really heading? We need jobs and we needed them yesterday.
As each day passes nothing is being done to rectify our countries situation.
I myself would like to see a 400 percent tax on imports.
I would think that businesses might move back to the US to sell their products at a fair market value.
But I wonder if that would work because we are such consumers and seem not to fear a large price, we seem to pay it and we don't care about the quality anymore.
I need it now attitude is killing us and supporting other counties.
Until we curb our enthusiasm as consumers we will not get those jobs.
I guess what really makes me think as the US has been buying and paying for everyone is if I am not making money how in the heck will I be able to contribute to all the money they are spending? If I am not earning then I am not paying taxes.
So where in the hell did the brain go that came up with this grand plan of letting business leave this country? Who in the hell said i think it is a good idea to put a pipe 5 miles deep in the ocean knowing how fragile the environment is? I believe the same people are making some stupid fundamental decisions that are costing you and me on a huge long term scale.
So, start a new career, and time is not on my side.
I could go to school and learn how to become a nurse so I can watch that industry fail ten years from now after all the baby boomer's move on.
How in the heck will that gap be filled ten years from now? So I predict that we are just at the beginning of this adjustment going into the Informational Age.
Those who grasp it will be further ahead and those who don't will have to decide, Do I get the Hot Dog or Do I get The Bun?
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