Posted by
Jay Adler Comment on Sunday, November 14, 2010 12:39:28 AM
When should politicians announce the revival or creation of new jobs in this recession of just under 10% unemployment? For a few years now I have heard promises of exact numbers of jobs coming back and plenty of "we have the potential of................ In 1974 I worked for a year as an agent in a personnel agency on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Somethings never change and I will give you one of them. You do not have a job until you walk in to the plant or office and sign the starting papers and your new boss shakes your hand and says those silly but immortal words Welcome Aboard! (ship?). Anything before that scenario means you do not have anything. Therefore when your politicians exclaim that thousands of jobs are potentially coming, remember that you cannot pay your bill based on anything potential. We really need to stop spending on particulars that keep the unemployment rate high. If we can rent classrooms to teach Defensive Driving and how to lose weight to millions of people, then we can follow this model and teach people skills so they can land a job. How many unemployed people know how to run the gamut of the Microsoft Office Suite? I am more confident about laborers finding work. Where is there a plan for millions of unemployed young people? Companies don't like to pay for trainees like they used to. Jay R