The Changing Jobscape

I read the most interesting, if not somewhat frightening, article just a few days ago, about how the “great recession” as this recession we’re still in, has been termed, may permanently affect the landscape of jobs here in America. Most notably and perhaps the most troubling to me personally is the fact that employers are forecast to keep on hiring from outside the US because the labor is much cheaper, and this trend had already started long before the recession began. Sorry to say that this will just put Americans in an even deeper hole when it comes to looking for good paying jobs that aren’t going outside of our borders.

I have a family member who just had to take a job out of state – far out of state, because he couldn’t find any jobs that he would be getting paid almost equivalent to what he was making before, which just covered things like the mortgage, car payment and helping his kids out with college. This is nothing compared to the millions of Americans who still can’t find anything, or who are simply packing up and moving out of the US and abroad simply to find a job that they can do which pays them what they are worth.

It’s hard when you are qualified and no one can hire you because there are literally about ten times the candidates than there are positions open at the moment, and since people are taking it on themselves to further their education even more in hopes of finding a better job, there are all that many more candidates who have an equal or better qualification than you. This is obviously frustrating to someone who’s a hard worker and who also happens to have tons of qualifications and keeps getting turned down for positions.

It’s heartbreaking actually that a lot of our jobs are going overseas. In this great country, shouldn’t there be some sort of incentives to stop this from happening? Maybe some sort of tax credit to companies that hire within the US and promote US made products? It seems to me that we are going the opposite way of what is needed on this issue, and the current administration isn’t doing much to counter the mass exodus of US companies to areas outside to get their employees, and to set up shop. We need change, real change right now before these things permanently change this great capitalist system we have.