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Elsewhere

Thanks everyone! ((( Lee ))) I have also been turned down for several jobs due to over qualification... Good luck!

It seems like every time western civilization comes up with a new innovation, some cheep-ass third-world country comes along and sells a rip-off version for dirt cheep using borderline slave labor where it is illegal to unionize.

No job is safe now unless you MUST be physically present to do it... such as sweeping the floors. Of course, if all of the office jobs have been moved to India, then there is no need to keep a building which needs to be swept.

Accounting, Engineering, Management, Manufacturing, Computer Technology, Telecom, Graphics Design, and Writing... all of it can be shipped over seas. Network admins think they are safe, but they are not... if all of the office workers are in India, then there is obviously no need for a network admin in the US.

If things keep going like this, America and Europe will both end up at the level of the third world countries.

Those countries rely on us Americans to buy their cheep products... but once enough Americans are out of work, there will be no one left to buy the cheep products. Then what will they do?

Flip, unfortunately it does not work like that in this field... the company sets a pay range and then interviews people, and then calls the "winner". There is no haggling.

**** Venting Mode ****

Lutece

It's the same thing here in Michigan. I've been looking for a fulltime job for a year. I'm struggling with web design jobs and freelance writing, but I need good insurance and more stability. Seems employers want you to do the work of three people for the price of one and everybody and his brother is trying to get the same job you apply for. I hate it, never been so frustrated trying to find work ever!

I'm still trying, but I've also been looking for a need to fill, create my own small business opportunities for now.

good luck everyone

sunshineToo

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I'm so sorry to hear that, elsewhere. My brother is a computer guy, too: a SAP and ORACLE expert. When he was laid off from Arthur Anderson ( yeah, that Anderson ), he still had a hope. Now he is working for a smaller company with less pay, and still feels that his job is threatened - his boss hired a guy with MBA from MIT when he (his boss) was complaining about not enough work in my brother's field.

My brother has BA from Boston University. He wants to go to either Harvard or MIT to get MBA. But I also read an article about shipping many hi-tech jobs to overseas. I think the U.S. government should make those companies extra taxes for doing it.

Double Edge

Damn the job market sucks.

You said it brother...in SPADES! I'm in the same boat, just keep bailing. btw, I came across and interesting website that you might be familiar with, if not...take a look... Elance.com .... there's a lot of web design jobs to bid on (fyi).... sorry that it's a bad day....

Maverick

I'm sorry to hear about your jod sit.rep. my friend. I have the same problem in reverse. I provide a highly skilled craft and have a very hard time getting the young guys to take up the trade. I believe in the next twenty years most of your skilled trade laborers will have accents! These people are willing to do brick, tile and marble, glass block type work. Most white kids want to sell computer games at Best Buy! My friends in the plumbing and electrical trades have the same complaint. There are good wages to be made in the trades. With a good business plan, a well educated person can pull down six figures. Some smart investments, in property, and by 50 you can work for yourself, or semi-retire. Just avoid the divorce tract if you can! I wish you the best! Maverick

Sadie5

My sympathies to both of you. I'm right there with you. DH's business is computer related and it has been so slow. July was a tough one.

I took the summer off from job hunting. But now that school has started, there might be some openings. I'm going to put some applications in, so wish me luck. At this point I'll take Wal-mart or something along those lines. Make enough to pay the basics like food and electricity.

Yes I hate it too when they keep saying the recession is over. Not in my area. We've lost several large companies or they have cut back alot. World-Com and American Airlines comes to mind. Whenever there is an advertised opening, tons of people show up.

I don't know if this will ever get turned back around.

Sadie

Winston Smith :>D

Sorry to here about the tough job market for you elsewhere and the rest of you. I've some friends in the IT field, it's tough for them too.

Porn and gambling always seem to be recession proof. Hey, those guys need websites too!

Winston.

run dont walk

aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh crap !!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry to hear elsewhere, hang in there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

maxwell

I hope I'm not taking this thread off topic, but I've seen a few mentions of jobs being taken to other countries that have cheaper labor costs. I saw a segment on Dateline a few nights ago about call centers being relocated to India and other countries. Even one local government had contracted a call center in India, but stopped after one politician brought attention to it with an unsuccessful attempt to pass a new law forbidding this practice for their local government contracts. I was unable to find a link for the story, but I put "call center India" into NBC's search and the washingtonpost.com's search engines and both popped up stories about jobs being shipped overseas. Obviously not a good thing for job seekers in the US.

Free trade and globalization seem to be highly debated topics. I'm not an economist so I'm not too keen on the difference between free trade and globalization, but I don't think globalization is something that can be stopped. We can control trade to some extent with taxes and customs/import control. However, technology is continually making our world smaller, and I think a more fluid world economy is inevitable. If lower labor costs in other countries allows you to pay less for the things you want like clothing at Walmart or electronics at Best Buy, are you really against it. That is an if. I tend to think that a lot of the savings goes into corporate pockets. Everytime there's a World Bank or IMF meeting here it draws a lot of globalization protesters. They seem to be protesting because they feel that globalization will hurt people in other countries, not because it will hurt people in the US. But I wonder will they ever join forces with those who would like to keep jobs from going to other countries. Or maybe these are really two very different issues. But they seem to be related as I see it now.

MegaDude

Perhaps is now the time for a career change?

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