Wow. You’re so right, Borat. What am I thinking? Hey, exactly which ACTUAL INDUSTRIES are still hiring those who produce things of value? Why don’t you post a sampling of machine shops or plumbing businesses in your local classifieds that are hiring right now.
Yeah, I’ll give you a few months or years to come up with that list.
When anyone loses a job in this depression — be it a lawyer, an equity trader, a teacher or a maid — it’s bad for everyone. Including you. But you probably won’t understand that until you lose your job.
And by the way, that’s a brilliant idea: send all the unemployed lawyers to mortuary school. They’re losing their homes – which means MORE foreclosures – and student loan funding is drying up. Just keep coming up with these gems, Borat. Maybe there’s a job for you on Obama’s economic team of clowns.
Wow there is some rich stuff here. I just did a google for “san diego machine shop jobs” and all kinds of listings came up. At least I am suggesting something positive — we have more than 20 times per capita lawyers than Japan (see my earlier post, with a reference to that stat from law.com) so all I am saying is that some of them need to be retrained. We don’t need so damn many of them. I would like to see Alberto Gonzalez retrained as a roto-rooter technician, for example. What are you suggesting? That we magically find some way to keep all of our lawyers employed? Or that we pee our pants and run down the street because “economic armageddon” is coming? Puh-leeze.
BTW I have lost my job before and while it’s not fun it ain’t the end of the world either. As long as you have some $ in the bank and you’re willing to relocate and maybe retrain yourself that is. Oh and of course you must be willing to step down a rung on the ladder from time to time and I’ve done that too.
Good luck to you man, I hope we don’t have any armageddon either but sometimes it seems like that’s what you’re hoping for! I have more faith in people I guess to do what’s right and move on to something else when they need to.
