I know I am straying from the subject of making money online. But this is also a blog about unemployment and all that it encompasses. While I wait patiently for my few websites to make any money at all, and learning as I go, I am, you, perhaps, trying to survive in this rapidly declining environment.
Yesterday, While the United states government fought over a 789 billion dollar stimulus bill, I sat in a make shift Employment agency office filling out a application that at least two hundred others did in this very offce.
Next to me sat a one armed man.
Next to him sat another man. He had both his limbs. I have no doubt that both men had what I never really did. A higher education. And has that happened to you? A dud walks into a Employment Agency and there you are struggling with yet another application while this guy talks to an agency associate and tells them he is a electronic engineer.
"And what kind of job are you looking for?" the associate asked the well educated man.
"Anything." he says.
Sad. Not for him. But guys like me. I have been living on the fringes of this country, relying on the minor blue collar jobs that come along. What luck do I have when the well educated are looking for my jobs?
But more importantly, what am I to Employment Agencies? Not much, when they got so many unemployed rolling in. The newly laid off. The long-termed unemployed. I use to love Employment agencies. Some use to just get me a job with out even a interview with the company. Just plug me in! Some were excellent opportunities, so not now. But because of the climate, the unemployment, the economic nose-dive, I have to stand in line. It is the Client that the Employment Agency will gravitate to. We are just packaged meat. Raw hamburger to be shipped out.
Some of us smell fresher then the others.
But it is not for us to decide where we can be employed. It is the client that now holds the winning hand.
My best,
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