Tough times out there for job hunters and I am more than sympathetic. Ted told me yesterday that the economy is really driven on consumer purchasing. When people are not afraid, they spend, whether they have the money or not. This is because they believe that tomorrow will be a better day. Today, most people are wondering about that one and many are worried that things will be so different that they won’t be able to survive.
As a caveat, I personally believe that the US government should allow people to collect a paycheck in a job and augment that with partial unemployment payments to yield a higher, livable wage, to encourage people to get working again. Most of the entrepreneurs in the job market have taken a couple of part-time or full time minimum wage jobs to yield the same results. To my mind, I would rather see 2 people working, rather than one person trying to make ends meet by working a 16-hour day. Read more…
