Getting a job is hard but why?

Sunday, July 4th, 2010 at 9:31 am

We are continuing to get news that there is a decline in the amount of the jobs created. The temporary census jobs created by the government were really a bad idea. Already quite a lot of them have to leave the job. The private sectors are also not able to create more jobs for the U.S. citizens as well. So what do the people? Is migration a choice? Becoming self employed a choice? Who are we to blame? Is the government responsible? The big corporate that are controlling the flow of currency? Or is it really the people? So many questions and yet none can be answered without pointing fingers at each other. The important question will be whether the job economy will improve or not.

We have to look at the factors that are causing job employment in the private sectors to decline. We certainly cannot live our lives with temporary or contract jobs. One of the major reasons why companies do not employ more people is because of cost reasons. Recently, Obama announced that US$2 billion is going to spend on creating green energy jobs. The money is given to companies that produce solar panels allowing them to employ more people. What is the point when the government is indirectly paying the newly employed? What if the money is used up? The companies will surely let go of its workers to reduce their cost overhead.

All of the companies want to reduce cost and are sensible about employment. The government has coaxed many of them to employ more people. Practically why would a company that is making money and has enough employees that can satisfy its needs to employ more people? So what about the bigger companies? Are they employing more people? The bigger companies tend to move their manufacturing line to other countries where it is cheaper. Just by opening a production line in China, they can greatly reduce their cost overhead. For every American being employed and paid, they can employ 5 Chinese with low pay. So now the question is why the bigger companies should open up factories in the U.S. when they can make more money by moving to China.

The people also are looking for good paying jobs, especially those who are well educated with good qualifications. So what happens? The employer has to pay more. Alternatively, the employer can get a foreigner to work for him at a lowered cost. The U.S. is known as the land of opportunity but at whose expense? Every day we are having more and more immigrants coming here to work. In a country like China, it is the capacity to produce more than 2 million graduates a year. Likewise for India as well, who has many people who compete with the Americans for IT jobs. A few months back I read an article about Microsoft stating that Indian programmers do not possess the quality for IT. We have to understand that they are simply here to work and earn not help you to profit. They can easily jump the boat while you sink.

This is not about demonizing the foreigners. It is a fact that there are Americans who do the same. It is globalization on unprecedented levels. At the same time, we have to figure on how to survive with what we have. The key is to be diversified and look for opportunities and niches. We cannot depend on the government or companies to get us jobs or improve our lives. Frankly, they are more interested in their well being. Problems cannot be solved by having more and more money put into it. That is the type of thinking that got us into this mess. Have a debt problem, no problem “here, have some more money”. Be diversified and look for other means of survival. One of the ways is to do outsourcing. It is possible to do it from within your own home. It could be even something related to IT or even baking. There are even people who make things that are even cheaper and its quality surpasses factory made products. Outsourcing is a good way to cut cost for companies. That does not mean they need to look for foreign resources to outsource. It can be done even on the home ground.

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