The Job Market (Again)

Again one of those surveys which gives you insight to the minds of jobless and not jobless people. A very high majority of employed people have said that they are willing to take a pay cut in order to keep a job and an overwhelming majority of unemployed people said that they are willing to take a pay cut in order to land a job. Although right now anything will do but in the long run, these same people will get hurt in terms of lower standard of living (which has already started) and fewer increases in their pay.

Even with all the news coming out that the economy is gaining momentum, but in the area of jobs it is not that situation. People are still finding it hard to find a job.

The long term unemployed are gaining in numbers and even the so called highly educated are finding it hard to find a job even if they are willing to take a pay cut. The main problem here is that the employers are finding it hard to find employees which are the exact match for what they are looking for. Since the employers have a larger pool of experienced candidates to choose from, they take their own sweet time to find the best employee. No employer has the time to teach an in experienced but College educated guy how to work in their companies. They just want a guy with experience and college degree. There is a huge mismatch between what the employers want and what the employees can provide them. It is very frustrating and scary thought that you may be the one who will be the long term employed (unless you start your own business).

Finally a nice day to celebrate the weather.

Today was definitely one of the nicer days of the week when there was no rain and they weather was sunny enough for kids to play outside their homes and parks. It is as if everybody has come out of hibernation and enjoying whatever few days of spring and summer they have to enjoy to the fullest. Families were out in force with their kids for the first time in a long time. After the miserable record snow and record rain, it seems that the families were not in any mood to waste this perfect day of sunshine.
We in the northeast love the summer and spring season better than other parts in the country due to the fact that we have so few of them. So if you something few, you cherish is more than if you plenty. So hopefully we will be having lots of these days in the coming months before another bout of fall and winter season.

The Russian Bombing

So now the bombing in the Russian subway has awakened by the Russians of their believe that every thing was fine and safe in Russia and the Chechen rebels have been defeated. Well think again, as I said before it is a long and brutal battle that every body has to fight but we must also look on the other side of the prism that why did this happen. Was the Russian state and people became complacent about a silent war so far away from their borders or were they so arrogant to believe that the rebels have been defeated in a short time.

Well it has been almost ten years that the U.S. has been fighting the terrorist and they have certainly not been defeated so how come the Russian thought that their terrorists will be defeated in a few years time and they are far more sophisticated than the U.S. when it comes to fighting against terrorists. The fact is that in the U.S. the media is free to report terrorists act and the Russian have been having a complete blackout of news regarding what is happening in their own country. Now either they should recognize that they have a terror situation on their hands and deal with either with military or political means or they can just bury their head in the sand and wish it would go away by itself.

The coming age of air racial profiling

The President has just order a new set of rules to put into place for the safety of flights that come to the United States. Although it is too early to tell if it is just a simple case of profiling or not, but the changes will affect anybody who will fit the profile that the intelligence agencies have gathered based on a number of characteristics attributes like age, religion, ethic origin, origination of flights etc.

Although it will come to be also criticized by the some people but we don’t have any choice in this matter. It all started with 9/11 and now enhanced with the attempted Christmas day bombing. We are still in the process of refining our intelligence for the flight safety procedures and there will always be lapses but this is a one good step. You know unless we adopt the Israeli method of full fledged security clampdown, we will be vulnerable to terrorists’ threat and any kind of enhancement of security is done for our safety even if some people won’t believe it. Unless we live in utopia (whatever that means) where every thing is at peace, we would and should always be one step ahead of terrorists since they show no mercy.