Harder to find employment

It is no secret, it is very hard to find employment. With the bankruptcy of General Motors and Chrysler here in the USA, we expect another 20,000 people to be unemployed. What is even more of a tragedy, is that many of these employees are going to lose many of the accrued retirement benefits that [...]

Wall Street gave $18 Billion to executives

President Obama is ticked off today, big time. The latest news came down about how the bailout money is being spent.
So today, we know that out of the billions of dollars that our US Government gave out to bail out the Wall Street and financial institutions, these institutions in turn gave out over $18 billion [...]

50,000 more laid off from Citicorp

So more news of layoffs. The news media paints a broad brush on how “down in the dumps” we are as a country.
Yeah, we are facing some tough times but we’ve faced tough times before — even tougher. The business owners who survive are always the ones who believe in and seek out the [...]

Getting a job in a down economy – part 2

One of my good friends found an ad in the news paper about a job fair that was held in a large arena in my hometown. It seems, since the economic “crunch” that we are in and the massive layoffs of over a million people, the job fairs across our country (USA) are getting slammed [...]

More layoffs = more work to be done

Think our government will get the “job” done? Will we be able to make more of a living when the new President takes office? Will the cost of gasoline go down anytime soon? We all live in a constantly changing world that does now wait for anyone.
Only a “21st Century” man/woman will survive and [...]

Federal Labor Dept. reports lost of 63,000 job layoffs in February

The continued “apocolypse” is approaching! That is what all the political “doomsayers” are saying. Funny, I live by going against the grain of what information is being fed to me. It seems like the news media and our government are working very hard together, hand in hand, to spread this black cloud of bad news [...]

More layoffs mean more opportunity

Breaking news – Honeywell to lay off 420 people. This was the story in the headlines in the Phoenix Arizona newspaper, business section. So what else is new? And the topper, the reason for the layoff is to replace them with cheaper labor in Asia. So it goes, more jobs leaving the shores of the [...]

New year – time for new job

As mentioned in my recent posts, layoffs are climbing at a record rate. Hundreds of thousands of people are being laid off. Just in January 2008, our Fed Government has stated that over 17,000 people lost their jobs, nation wide.
You find yourself at the “fork” in the road and finally are open to the possibilities….or [...]

Work at home – your possibility

For those of you who were laid off from the nations largest corporations, you may have been lucky enough to be offered a “golden parachute” that will keep you financially comfortable for several months. Figuring out what to do with your new cash windfall, you might consider starting your own home based business. There are [...]

More layoffs and more reason to work smarter

It seems like the norm nowdays to read in the local newspaper across the USA, that more layoffs are reported. In the last quarter of 2007, AOL laid off over 2,000 people, Motorola cut 7,000, and Boeing cut a whopping 48,000! The field of work has been attacked, big time!
Now, this month January 2008, it [...]