I was as usual surfing the internet when I came upon an article with videos showing the most expensive houses in the United States and it just took my breath away. There was a house listed for nearly 70 Million Dollars with enough bathrooms to go into one every other day of the month. It was an extremely huge house. I just got to wonder who will invest so much money and live there if they have a small or a decent size family (like maybe six people in the house). The maintenance and property taxes are enough and well into six figures. Unless you have an extended family, you cannot live in these houses with 10 or more bedrooms; you may just become lonely or go crazy.
Although the name beautiful is hardly a good better for these amazing houses, it is just such an extravagance that it just makes you wonder, why spent so much money for just a house. If you really have that much money, I would rather buy land in several states rather than in one. But that is just me, although they look beautiful and envious for people to look at, it is just a shameful way to show off in these economic times.
Monday, October 4, 2010
The YouTube Phenomenon
When I was young, I use to listen to music and wondered what it was like to see it on television, then MTV came and it changed this perspective. But then MTV changed its tune and started showing reality shows and I lost track of the music videos. But the Phenomenon called YouTube has changed this. With the internet being a big part of my life (and I hope it is for everybody), I am able to see every music video and my favorite ones on the internet without waiting for MTV to show and at any time.
Old songs, new songs and even some funny videos and any thing that a common person with a video can put up on then internet and the biggest player of them all YouTube and you can watch instantly and even your loved ones and friends can watch your homemade movies. I also watch upcoming trailers of movies and also literally some movies which are uploaded by people. Although YouTube has created a sensation but it can and have been used for purposes to hurt people so it is a double edged sword. But as the power of the mouse can be used to see and hear whatever you want to, YouTube have revolutionized the way we see short movies and music and all that is in between.
Old songs, new songs and even some funny videos and any thing that a common person with a video can put up on then internet and the biggest player of them all YouTube and you can watch instantly and even your loved ones and friends can watch your homemade movies. I also watch upcoming trailers of movies and also literally some movies which are uploaded by people. Although YouTube has created a sensation but it can and have been used for purposes to hurt people so it is a double edged sword. But as the power of the mouse can be used to see and hear whatever you want to, YouTube have revolutionized the way we see short movies and music and all that is in between.
Friday, October 1, 2010
More of the same on Jobs-2
There are just too many applicants for fewer jobs and that is the reality that has not been dawned on many so called advisers on jobs. How much more can you compete when there are more than four applicants to a job? It is obvious with the relevant statistics that there will be always people who will lose out to the next best applicant and then they will be forced to take jobs which is below their qualifications and end up dissatisfied. Sometimes it happens that the employers just reject you before even calling you in since you are overqualified (It has happened to me recently). It is really sad that due to this economic recession, the U.S. is losing a lot of productivity due to the high unemployment rate among the college educated people.
One more thing I want to emphasize that due to the large pool of unemployed applicants, the employers are simply not interested in training people who are not qualified experience wise even if they have the theoretical knowledge. That is why you are seeing the entrepreneurial spirit developing among the unemployed to go it alone rather than hope for a corporate job which may not happen faster than the bills become due. Due to my experience, I have seen that even when I am hired to do a job which I am qualified to do, I had to learn the new employers systems and the style of doing business, so there is no such thing as experienced persons (although I admit that some jobs will have the relevant experience required) but even then if the employers are willing to invest in training people then the unemployment rate will go down.
One more thing I want to emphasize that due to the large pool of unemployed applicants, the employers are simply not interested in training people who are not qualified experience wise even if they have the theoretical knowledge. That is why you are seeing the entrepreneurial spirit developing among the unemployed to go it alone rather than hope for a corporate job which may not happen faster than the bills become due. Due to my experience, I have seen that even when I am hired to do a job which I am qualified to do, I had to learn the new employers systems and the style of doing business, so there is no such thing as experienced persons (although I admit that some jobs will have the relevant experience required) but even then if the employers are willing to invest in training people then the unemployment rate will go down.
More of the same on Jobs
Every day there is news about the jobs or the jobless and everybody has an opinion about how to get a job (as I have an opinion also since I am one of the Jobless) but sometimes I feel like the people who are advising don’t know how hard it is to jump hoops to even get an interview. If you have happened to apply to thousands of jobs and not even get an interview, how would you know how to approach one? Even stating the obvious regarding the resume seems to be lost on some people as the HR guys report seeing hundreds of resumes which are a joke or which does not cut it and head straight to the garbage can.
Another thing is if somebody has not found a job, should he or she be not applying to every job there is. It is easy to say that you should not apply to every job even which you are not qualified for but tell that to the person who has to pay the bills. The questions on the interview are another story since it assumes that you should be able to impress the interviewer since you are competing with more applicants. Even with the best credentials and you being their top candidate, any last minute hitch like a hiring freeze or some internal situation can derail a candidate chances of getting hired and it does discourage that person for a while even if somebody says otherwise ( I have been in that situation before so I know how it feels).
Another thing is if somebody has not found a job, should he or she be not applying to every job there is. It is easy to say that you should not apply to every job even which you are not qualified for but tell that to the person who has to pay the bills. The questions on the interview are another story since it assumes that you should be able to impress the interviewer since you are competing with more applicants. Even with the best credentials and you being their top candidate, any last minute hitch like a hiring freeze or some internal situation can derail a candidate chances of getting hired and it does discourage that person for a while even if somebody says otherwise ( I have been in that situation before so I know how it feels).
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