Things are getting desperate

How do we know things are getting desperate?

• $12.50 for lunch at the Sunrise Cafe.
• Snooty comments like "Some people think they own the whole world." from people who work at the Bean Counter.
• Asking for a ten megapixel camera at Circuit City and getting sold a six instead, and with the wrong type of memory card. Now they can't sell my mother a digital camera because they don't have it in stock, nor do they have it at the warehouse.
• Ridiculously overpriced green bell peppers at County Market that are now rotting.
• Schnooks doesn't even have space on their shelves for #1 small coffee filters.

Now with the city paying up on it's civil rights violations, things are really going to get stinky. But apparently not stinky enough to prevent the creation of a brand new job at the Lincoln Library on 7Th and Capitol.

The librarians were so suddenly surprised by the brand new job that they didn't have time to apply for it. The position was already filled!

The risk assessment for the position is that there appears to be a potential for Repetitive Motion Injury due to computer mouse clicking at Solitaire.

Microsoft Access Database

I'm getting ready to upload the employment database for Microsoft Access. It will be rough because I'm teaching myself how to use Access, but I thought you might like to have a look at it. It will be at www.spfld.net

Job hunting.

I’ve been looking for work. Any work. I’m a college graduate. It should be easy, right? I keep my eyes and ears to the media, hoping to find something. Then I see statistics that show more high school graduates are working than college graduates.

How is that? That's easy! College graduates are not supposed to be looking for jobs. They are supposed to be making jobs. So, why are college students complaining about not finding work?

Evidently, it’s a symptom of a bigger problem, the General Requirements Curriculum. The big picture was completely missed. A plan was never formulated. In my case it’s easy because I got an Associate degree somewhere else and transferred credits, so I couldn’t even declare a minor.

My education was fractured by circumstances engineered by a capitalist society with no vision of long-term consequences, only greed at the top.

So now we have a large number of college graduates who don’t know entrepreneurship. They just try to look for work. This has been going on for a long time in the U.S. And guess what.

We have been creating our own terrorists. We have sent far too many foreign-exchange students out into the world without the crucial information needed to actually make work instead of complaining about not finding a job.

It's far too easy for zealots with money to take advantage of so many people who know just enough to make a bomb, but not enough to start a company making better mousetraps.

Here in the U.S. it's manageable because we have such a powerful and intrusive law enforcement system, and the culture is so homogeneous that volatile social cohesion is limited to urban street gangs.

Some high school teachers have caught on to this and are teaching entrepreneurship in the K-12 levels. It's too little too late because of one major obstacle, tenure.

Gee, it took me this long to figure it out? I'm in really bad shape. But at least I can see the candle in the distant window. Now I just have to find my way around the dark fjord of capitalist influence.