Sadly…a lot of corporations who have open positions are stating that there are not enough qualified canidates.

This is a complete load of crap.

These companies are looking for people who’s skills don’t exist and want them to do it for next to nothing.

I have several degrees and certifications but am finding it next to impossible to find anything…not because of the pay.

Take Information Technology for instance. They are looking for a canidate who can program in multiple languages, is familar with Solaris, Oracle, Microsoft (all server versions) Cisco experience with certification, has a BS or Masters in Computer Science with 5 to 10 years experience and is willing to do “whatever it takes” for $50,000 a year!

A position like that, years ago would have paid two to three times as much.

I was paid $60,000 a year in 1997 in a desktop support role before moving into system administration and then network engineering.

The whole economy sucks. I don’t want to flip burgers – but damnit, if I have to, I have to.

Yes, I did click on your link. I think I can trust you. Plus, I wanted to know what you were referring to. Then when I saw your link, I wanted to google to see where it would take me. It’s a book called, “WHAT ARE THESE STRAWBERRIES DOING ON MY N¡PPLES, I NEED THEM FOR MY FRUIT SALAD”

I suggest we do the following:
*Ignore*

According to an article I remember reading in Forbes.

They had disastrous investments in the Blackstone Group and Morgan Stanley which has lost them billions of dollars. They have accumulated huge U.S. dollar reserves to keep the value of its own currency down.

Every time we print more money we weaken the U.S. dollar, thus making China’s dollar-based investments worthless.

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So I don’t see how they’ll be able to “buy us out”. Most of the large U.S. corporations are already globally owned. One that impacted us recently was the purchase of our St. Louis based Anheuser-Busch by InBev. Thousands have lost their jobs, including my wife’s director position in Human Resources. She was with the company for just over 31 years.

The economy sucks and it’s just going to keep getting worse. We have off-shored so many jobs to foreign countries because it can be done for less. This leaves a widening gap in the American economy that can’t recover unless we bring the jobs back. Wages and product prices never seem to meet in the middle. If it’s made in America, it is too expensive to purchase – people can’t buy products because they are too expensive then that doesn’t inject cash back into the system.

The company has to downsize because they aren’t selling enough which leaves people out of work – who can’t buy products, which forces companies to downsize, which leaves people out of work….etc…etc… It’s a cycle that must be stopped.

Since I covered my whole body in strawberries, I suppose they were also in that part of my body. But like I said, that is in the past.

(Hey, did you see there’s a new girl called Naked Sara? Go get her)