I am not really sure why i still watch the news, I mean it all pisses me off and I am constantly telling people to stop watching the news because the shit will make you crazy. Week after week and Day after Day for the past two months I have listened to every news channel scream and kick about the growing unemployment rate in this country. It’s sheer panic, I mean holy shit a million people without jobs in the United States holy crap the Country is going to go to shit, everyone should panic…. Give me a fucking a break.
Help Wanted Sign
I was going to snap a few pictures while I was out but I hate taking pictures with my Cell phone and than transfering them to my Mac so I didn’t take any pictures. Not that it matters because you can find a billion pictures on the web anyway my picture wouldn’t have been ny more special than anyone else’s. I was out with my son and we had to hit up a few stores for a couple of School supplies that he needed for a project. While we were out every single store I went into had a Help Wanted sign in the front window, some places like Office Depot had a sign that said “Now Hiring” which basically screams, “Get in here and fill out an application!” The list goes on and on of the many places I have seen signs for Help wanted or Now Hiring, Wal Mart, Target, Books a Million, Office Depot, Staples, Circuit City, Extreme Tan and Smoothies, Home Depot and so many others are hiring and have been hiring.
I am a realist so I will be the first to say that there are unfortunate people that have lost their jobs with major firms and companies paying major dollars in a field much different than any of the places above, and that is sad. I will also say there are some shitty situations out there that put people in a bad position that can seem almost impossible to get out of. Now with that said I also have to question is it really our entire Economy that sucks ass or is some of the many things I have bitched about in the past just coming to light? Seriously I constantly bitch and complain about people that have jobs, or positions that can offer growth and instead of being self motivated and making the best out of the oppratunity people decide to be lazy and get complaicent. Again I am not saying that this happends to everyone, im just saying it happends to some and I am saying that maybe just maybe the “Economy” is doing what it is suppose to be doing when you have so many lazy complaicent people in the work force.
I can remember bitching about Contractor after Contractor and Tree Trimmer after Tree Trimmer that I scheduled appointments with that never showed up. I am still waiting on an estimate from Freestyle Pools and Spa’s from a year ago on a job that would have easily earned them an easy $10,000, I wonder if I called them now to schedule another appointment for an estimate if someone would actually show up and get me an estimate this time. It’s just like the landscaping company I used to do my house the first time around, I called them back to get an estimate done for the backyard and some Mulch as well… I called Cornerstone Tree Farm and “Chet” Five times and still have yet to get a return call from them, no biggie I went with someone else.
My thought is maybe if people stopped being so god damn lazy and stopped being so damn proud maybe applying for a job at one of the many places that ARE Hiring outside of your field might actually help you get by and get through some tough times. It never ceases to amaze me how people will bitch and piss and moan about work but when they don’t have a job it’s a whole different story. I remember when we were getting ready to get married, we lived in this little shit hole dump of a place in Sound Beach out on Long Island. I was working Full Time at Home Depot and working unlimited overtime doing a reset at the Westbury store whih was an hour from my house. Not only did I work their I also worked at Office Depot part time to make extra money to help pay for the wedding, bottom line I worked. I didn’t give a flying fuck where I worked as long as I could earn the money we were going to need for our wedding, sure I could have sat at home on my ass barely working my 40 hours at Home Depot than bitched and cried and hoped someone helped me, or I could bust my ass and do the best I could with what we had. Plain and simple, sitting on my ass never occured to me.
Hopefully in time things will change, I don;t think the economy is as bad as everyone thinks it is, I think there’s a ton of hype on the news and I think there’s a lot of people out there walking right past solid job oppratunities every single day all because “It’s not what they want to do”. Hopefully people will get off their ass and get back to work doing something before the Economy does take a complete shit. Just my 2 cents.
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I find your blog interesting. And I do agree. My problem is finding a job that pays enough to make it worth my time after the day care is paid. Anyways……I find it interesting that you even think about this issue and felt strongly enough to write something about it. Most people wouldn’t even think about it, and if they did (like you said) they would be to lazy to write about it!
The News (The Daily Negativity) is like cancer-it spreads and effects every one in the house which then effects every one the people in the house come in contact with. Yes, I’m a fellow HUGE news hater. Oh and BTW, can’t you give a girl a holla back? I’m still waiting on the a reply from the email I sent you weeks ago!!!????
Emily, I understand 100% and I hope this post didn’t come out in any way that said “Get a job” because that’s not at all what I am saying. I think more or less the news is old and now that Obama made his little, “It will get worse before it gets better.” comment the media and all of the other dooms dayers can be satisfied knowing that whatever funk the country was in will stick around even longer. Bunch of fucking morons.
Thank you for the comments in regards to the blog and actually I wrote you a very detailed email about 2 days after you wrote me, I will see if I still have it in the cabinet and resend it. I don’t ignore emails
Worry wastes its time thinking thoughts in all that we cannot control. Arise in compatibility with evalution through the swing of change. Our only thing which is forvever constant, change. Wise men lay deaf to the worry. When the the boat rocks, the bottle rolls. I say this world needs to do whats necessary, ride the wave.
Wow.