Saturday, March 25, 2006

GM Set to Implode......"Black Tuesday"

WOW, the job market is getting to really suck here in SE Michigan. GM is giving the pink slips to 500-1200 salaried engineers and white collar workers today! Marching them right out the door. Uh huh.

The TV interviews with the potential "layoffers"....all run the same......Surprise, shock (who me?), anxiety over how to pay for all the expensive crap they just bought, etc.

The Real Estate market should be even more of a glut soon! Already there are tons of houses, some of which, have been for sale for over two years!

Words of advice for all you children in school........Don't go into the Auto Industry!

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Job Creation Myth

Wow, I have been looking for work. It sucks. It sucks big time.

I have about 75 graduate credits in Education and MBA courses. I have a BA and enough other undergraduate credits for two more degrees! (Yeah OK, I was kind of a "professional" student!)

Anyway..the job environment is highly competitive.....I mean 200 qualified applicants apply for the same $25,000/yr job. Does that mean 1000's apply for $75,000+ per jobs? Crap!

They claim there is a booming economy......to me that means every qualified person should be able to get a job with pay according to their skills and education! NOT! It means that the few jobs out ther epay more, but there are thousands who apply. That's just bullcrap!

In my reality, statistics say that 25% of people have a bachelors degree.......10% have a Masters, and 5% have a PhD. All that education should translate into multiple job offers, not multiple job appliers!

Saturday, March 18, 2006

Nature? What the hell?

OK, I started hiking out in mother nature......Michigan's version that is. I bought an annual Metro Parks Pass ($20). The nearby Stoney Creek Metro Park is a good size, a big lake, tails, boat rental, a golf course, etc. It evidently also has a nearby offsite shooting range. On my last hike, I thought I was in Bosnia or Iraq. These two idiots a shotgun and .22 must have fired 1000 rounds during my hike. It was highly annoying.

Today I went to a small nature center. No guns, but traffic noise was clearly heard. Then just after spotting two white tail deer, parents with screaming kids showed up, closely followed by a couple with two dogs......dogs in a nature area? What the hell?

I can see now that quiet is not something I'll see (unlike in Colorado, where you can be miles from other humans), until I go up north perhaps to the UP?