Posted: 8/10/2014 8:18:07 AM EDT
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That's how many Help Wanted ads were in my paper this morning.
Everything from Medical, to a job at Nightforce. If you don't have a job in my area, it's because you're lazy. |
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Of those jobs, how many are likely to be in any particular person's field?
I've got a PhD, but I'm not certified to be a dental assistant, I don't have a year of experience as a receptionist, and I have no training in using a forklift or CNC. I might be qualified to fill maybe 5% of those positions in your help wanted section. But how many of those are temporary, or "jobs" rather than "careers?" I'm underemployed, underpaid, and overworked. Taking a part-time job isn't going to help me, or most of the underemployed workforce out there. I get what you're saying, that there's too many people on welfare who don't want a job, so they don't apply. But just because there's one hundred twenty-two help wanted ads (in an unspecified city with probably ten times that many unemployed) doesn't mean that "anybody who wants a job can have one." |