Well, you know the news and how they make everything look like the end of the world. I blame them for a lot of the panic that has gone on and for things being the way they are. They certainly don't encourage anyone.
Unfortunately news is big business and has to make money to survive.. even more unfortunately most people thrive on "bad news" and "rumors".. it's what sells and drives the media agenda. The media tend to give people what they want, I think.. IMHO
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Originally Posted by Blue Baboon
Well, you know the news and how they make everything look like the end of the world. I blame them for a lot of the panic that has gone on and for things being the way they are. They certainly don't encourage anyone.
I keep hearing that jobs are opening back up but then I read something about temp jobs for Christmas help that one can usually find around this time isn't as plentiful.
Another thing, jobs may be opening up some but they are all minimum or close to it wages. One can't live off that. My daughter is now juggling 4 jobs just to make ends meet. If she could just find one that paid good she wouldn't have to get up at 3:00 a.m. and work until the evening each day.
It's pathetic what some places offer as pay and expect experience and a degree. That should be worth something with all the hard work of college and the expense. I even emailed one place to tell them that offering $8-10 an hour for an experienced designer was not a great wage. This place wasn't within driving distance of my house, so it didn't matter to me, but they did email me back. They said they paid the last 4 designers $20 an hour, but none of them worked out so they thought they'd offer the next person less. I'm sure that will increase quality, right? LOL The email was also written by someone that claimed they had a Master's or PhD and many words misspelled.
Wages haven't gone up much at all over the years, but the price of everything has.
Just moving the graph and seeing how much its changed just in the last 6 months is scary. No leveling out of jobs what so ever, yet they claim that the worst is over. I believe the media hypes it up, but the fact is there is not really a demand for anything out there.
I go into manufacturing companies every day, though they seem to have picked up a little in the past month or two. Most of there contracts expire at the end of the year. Not sure how there contracts really work, but it seems to have them scared. If there is anyone else that can shed some light on this that would be great! There is no backlog for anything.
I also know several people in the printing industry at Quad and its scary how many magazines and publications still go under month after month. That will take way to many years for that to ever recover if it ever does with the internet now.
One potential bright spot for manufacturing, CNCguy, with the 25+ percent slide in the dollar in the last couple of months we've got to start looking real good for exports.
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