So Why Are So Many Quitting?

 The real reason is the fact that record numbers of baby boomers retired during the pandemic and feel it is too dangerous to return.  I think this is the most important reason:

NOT Good News

None of this is good news as much as the article tries to spin it as such. The economy is worse here now than it was 30 years ago when I had to relocate to another state. That is the end result of shortsighted policies and beliefs since the late 1960s that said the Rogue Valley should be nothing but a retirement destination for wealthy Californians and their doctors, hence all of the mobile home parks that sprouted up during that era. The medical field is not a good option for most people in terms of jobs because only a certain personality type can stand that type of work being around sick or dying people or people who need operations or routine medical help. For the better paying jobs, it takes YEARS of education to do the work. Clerical work in this field is hardly better, and many people are forced to work odd shifts in order to make a living. Nurse's aides jobs are absolutely horrible and have high turnover. Furthermore, the medical field is even more incestuous than even public education in trying to get a job.

The Rogue Valley needs a major change in direction to expand its economy beyond one or two fields. It's long overdue.

We're in the Money

Life is as rotten as can be if you are in the bottom of the income spectrum.

It's change we can all believe in, even when we have utterly no change in our pockets:

The survey revealed that many people at the lowest rung in the workplace view their jobs as a dead end. Half were “not too” or “not at all” confident that their jobs would help them achieve long-term career goals. And only 41 percent of workers at the same place for more than a decade reported ever receiving a promotion.

Yet 44 percent of employers surveyed said it’s hard to recruit people with appropriate skills or experiences to do lower-wage jobs, particularly in manufacturing (54 percent). While 88 percent of employers said they were investing in training and education for employee advancement, awareness and use of such programs among the lower-wage workers was only modest.

Employers are so full of shit. They want people to have all of these "skills," but they want to pay people 10 bucks an hour, part-time, with no benefits.

You pay trash, you will get trash or very desperate people who will quit at the first opportunity to better themselves.

And for those who have ambitions to make poverty-level pay for the rest of their lives, here are the eight lowest-paying jobs in the country:

1. Food preparation and serving workers, including fast food

2. Dishwashers

3. Cashiers

4. Hosts and hostesses

5. Amusement park attendants

6. Movie theater ushers, ticket takers

7. Farm workers

8. Personal and home care aides


These are some of the hardest jobs in the economy and necessary jobs, but they pay absolute shit.

Welcome to What is Now Known as the "Kleenex Workforce"

Use them, abuse them, and then throw them away:

The notion that the nature of work is changing — becoming more temporary and project-based, with workers increasingly functioning as free agents and no longer being governed by traditional long-term employer-employee relationships — first gained momentum in the 1990s. But it has acquired new currency in this recession, especially among white-collar job seekers, as they cast about for work of any kind and companies remain cautious about permanent hiring.

No benefits, no nothing. Really cute.

News and Commentary Briefs

A judge has dismissed charges against Nevada Lt. Governor Brian Krolicki.
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Tiger Woods' popularity continues to go south.
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Are liberals useless.

Well, if you call Obama a "liberal," then of course they would be useless, but Obama has never been one. I don't see much being accomplished by the so-called "progressives" or "leftists."
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If you have committed a crime decades ago and have long since paid your dues, it doesn't matter to the employer how good you might be now--more and more employers are telling ex-cons to take a hike.
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I Really, Truly Despise

articles like this one which tout all of these "fastest-growing" jobs, the total of which are only a couple of hundred thousand positions in the next decade.

It's meaningless to write about the "fastest-growing" jobs when these jobs will be greatly outnumbered by the demand for nurses aides, clerical workers, janitors, food servers, and sales clerks. All these articles do is encourage people to flood schools to be trained for jobs that may not even exist when they graduate.

I think it is downright misleading and cruel to write such garbage.

More Personal Stuff

Since I am without transportation and may be for a long time if not permanently, any ideas for home-based employment would be appreciated.

I know there are a lot of scams, but I would like to know about legitimate jobs.

The Booming Economy

Women belong in the damned kitchen anyway.

I Just

returned from a 560-mile round trip to Portland, Oregon, to attend a professional educator job fair. The jobs sound promising, especially in special education, and I am hoping to pass the state test in order to get certified in the state.

I am ready for a move.

The Booming Economy.

The WSWS takes a look at the latest horrid job figures, the largest number of job losses in five years.

The Booming Economy.

The Fortunate 400 is about right.
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The economy is doing so well employers slashed 63,000 jobs last month.
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The Booming Economy Casualty List for 10/25-11/1.

Chrysler--Up to 12,000 jobs lost

Last Month's Jobs Figures

prove the economy is weakening by the day.

I hear jobs are going up all over the place in India.

The Booming Economy Casualty List for 9/1-9/8.

Here is yet another instance of massive income inequality.
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Consol Energy---110 jobs lost

Countrywide--12,000 jobs lost
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Employers cut jobs by 4,000 last month.
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The Booming Economy for 6/28-7/6.

Allegedly, the economy is doing better than expected, which means the unemployed are doing worse than expected.
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Paul Craig Roberts

hits it on the head about our worsening economic situation:

Except for Lou Dobbs on CNN, the US TV and print media have so far ignored the astounding story. Where are the headlines: “US Jobs: No American Need Apply”?

Chances are high that economists will ignore the story also. Economists have made fools of themselves with their hyped claims that jobs offshoring is a great benefit to America and that any attempt to stop it would bring hardship, failed companies, and lost American jobs. When a profession gets egg all over its face, it closes ranks and goes into denial.

Unlike the post-depression generation of US economists, recent generations of economists have been indoctrinated with confidence in business. They believe that business knows best and that the free market will prevent or correct any mistakes. Many economists today are well-paid shills for special interests. Others, simply careless, have assumed that statistical measures of high rates of US productivity and GDP growth were indications of the benefits that offshoring was bringing to Americans.

Only a few economists, such as myself and Charles McMillion, noticed the inconsistency between alleged high rates of productivity and GDP growth on one hand and stagnant real median incomes and rising income inequality on the other. Somehow the US economy was having GDP and productivity growth that was not showing up in growth in the incomes of Americans.

Thanks to economist Susan N. Houseman and the March 22 issue of Business Week, we now know, as I reported in the print edition of CounterPunch (June 1-15, 2007) and online at VDARE.com and Online Journal, that much of the growth in US productivity and GDP was an illusion created by statistics that mistakenly attributed productivity gains achieved abroad to the US economy.

With the ladders of upward mobility for Americans dismantled by offshoring and work visas, with the very real problems in mortgage and housing markets, with the very real stress put on the US dollar’s reserve currency role by Bush’s trillion dollar war that is financed by foreigners, with the downward revisions in US GDP and productivity growth that are now mandatory, and with a variety of other problems that I haven’t the space to deal with, the fabled US economy is a thing of the past.

John Edwards needs to hammer on this theme and hammer it hard. The powers-that-be will try to silence him, but the truth needs to be told.

The Booming Economy Casualty List for 5/24-5/31.

The majority of the USSC once again proves it is not on the side of working people.

Because Few People

can afford to retire, many people continue to work until they literally can't work anymore.

Naturally there are some who "choose" to work, but most can't.