I've started to shop at stores commonly visited to those in the community. I'm not pleased to what I hear, more and more are people talking about their rough life during these times. I must admit I've been partially oblivious to others around me since I always have jobs lined up, even when I expect the job to last for at least a year, and am disturbed at the ratio of people who I hear have money troubles.

Here's some thought to the economy and the average person in the community.


Here's what I commonly hear:

- Person has job
- Person buys widgets with credit cards
- Person loses job as economy gets worse through the company making cutbacks(employees)
- Person defaults on their financial obligations, including the possibility of losing their house
- Person falls behind, becoming another one of the individuals who make the economy even worse
- Person gets job at a lesser wage than currently obtained, in worse position
- Person takes a long time paying off bills at a high interest rate, not buying with money
- Economy gets worse since people don't buy as much since the US is a consumer based economy


As a person who makes anywhere from 90-110k per year, I feel helpless to not being able to do anything in order to improve my own community. I also feel like a bastard in sort of a way, always hearing people not being able to find work for months, sometimes up to a year, while I make a phone call and I've immediate employment.

I've thought about the job crisis and come to some conclusions:
1) there are jobs
2) Unfortunate the available jobs are too senior for the majority of the jobless
3) Companies would rather outsource their jobs or get a visa for a foreigner in order to fill said job

Regarding above, people have watched me grow irritated because of my own history. I don't have any degree, I don't have any certs and the truth is... I'm a high school dropout. I just turned 27 and am making 100+k a year. How? I said, "Fuck it" to games and hit the books ever since I was little. While at times I do have communication issues with others while I'm, "I'm the zone," I do know how to communicate and complete my work in a timely manner.

I don't understand why others can't be like me, people are given choices to study, work and play. Yet when the choice comes to them, they'd rather spend their time playing and jacking off instead of earning cash.

When I was your age... I mean... When I was 8, I was going door to door using those existing sales catalogs from the back of Boy's Life magazines. I learned to talk to people, I learned how to pitch a sale... ON MY OWN! Neither of my parents were/are intelligent on the scale of being a go-getter. They are/were the type of people to be apart of the corporate cog like in Joe Versus the Volcano.

You want work, study hard(even if it's in college) and pursue what you need to pursue. You don't have to obtain your dream job right away like how I did in becoming a programmer/systems admin/ network admin, but go out there and get a job which helps improve a company or the community.

I've been all over the states, I've done my own travels, I've lived in the wild for 5 years while still performing my important duties related to technology. If you want to explore, then explore. If you want to relocate, then relocate. Don't piss time away as if you know, "There's plenty of time," there is not. Study hard, become successful, stop wasting time playing video games.