09.08.10
Job Story Funnies
Since DD blog is on Yahoo, I get a daily dose of the sites “news department.”
Everyday there’s stuff on “hot jobs,” or “how to get a job,” or how you probably f—– up your resume, your interview and life. And after being out of work so long you’re hardcore unemployable, so pay someone for ersatz reintegration and skills training now.
It’s part of an industry of parasitism, one designed to make money from those who have little but who also happen to be looking fruitlessly for work in a wrecked economy.
One facet, for example, is the current job fair.
“Job fairs” are now places where you go to find an opportunity to give your money to an assortment of lampreys and hagfish. Five hundred dollars down and we’ll train you to be able to work in an insurance office, no guarantee of work or placement though, buddy.
What years ago started out as a way to launch people into work is simply turned over to parasite businesses which thrive on unemployment and desperation, psychologically and financially chiseling the afflicted.
Believe it or not, there are even state government training courses to teach the unemployed how to be unemployment counselors.
But back to Yahoo. Today’s topic is hot jobs — the story is here.
However, even the readers know it’s a joke. In the broke economy, the jobless are not actually able to run out and invest in a four-year college degree for Yahoo’s hottest jobs. Over the weekend, the hot jobs were financial analysts (you know, the bankster industry) and teachers.
Today, it’s nurses, accountants and software engineers.
Tomorrow it will be bedpan technicians or windmill repairmen. Do you like mucous and/or great heights?
The best quotes are in the comments, where nobody is really buying the horseshit as practical or even good.
The fastest growing market in the recession is in the market of buying lots of goods at bargain basement prices. I have a 6 month leave from my employer, and had the means to move and just shop for the time being. This guy at the table next to [me] bought a T-shirt at OLD NAVY for 49 cents. For the consumer with means the recession [is] like a permanent sale.
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Americans do not appreciate their industrial heritage. Their shrinking industrial base. We have invented massive numbers of products and inventions now taken for granted. What happened?
What our kids see on TV is models, lawyers, cooks, entertainment elite, sports rich. They do not see reality.
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We now have a government that is closer to the labor unions than any government in the last 50 years. You show me one industry other than government employees that is heavily unionized and survives and grows jobs. It dont happen.
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If you buy foreign cars and foreign refrigs and other high ticket items you are part of the problem. You are not the greedy corporation sending jobs overseas.
If you want prosperity for your children – then understand that we need a industrial base. Right here in the USA
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Well that is great for a young person…What Jobs are avilable for people between 50 and 62 ( before the Republicans raise the retirement age ) supposed to be avilable???
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My grandfather worked in the mines. My father was a life long dairy farmer. What happened to these jobs?
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I do not know where they got the information. I do not see any hiring for accountants and auditors. I have been looking work as an accountant for two years, and I have not heard the word, you are hired. Companies have been shipping work to overseas.
And here, another fitting musical one-minute interlude from US of Fail:
It’s the live intro to China Toilet Blooz — which you should click up for me on YouTube. Pretty please with sugar on top?