Welcome to another blog entry and another topic I believe is extremely hot these days. I would like to talk about our economy, but particularly on the subject of employment.
Now it’s all over the news, we hear it everyday or read about it everyday…yah ok…the media is pulling away from the subject of unemployment, but its still there lurking in the back…ready to pounce hard one day…soon. You see…I wanted to talk about what’s really going on, well, what I think is going. You see, after the real estate bubble burst in 2007-2008 …every aspect of every ones life changed. You see, not only did we see a drop in housing prices, but we also saw a huge up in gas prices…come on…oil commodity shot up to nearly 114 a barrel…and of course when gas prices go up…everything else goes…you know it, such as all foods, goods and well business costs.
Now as with many companies, lay offs was the beginning of things to come. You see unemployment up…high…and some states awfully high and well you see what I am talking about...its happening to everyone. Now, I wanted to touch on the job situation, you see at my job, I have seen three or four waves of layoffs and just recently a reduction in working hours…now that doesn’t mean the work load went down as well…you see…the people that are working now…have to take on many roles and do many more things in order to keep working and of course keep the company from laying off more people…so those few that are left has had to kick it up a notch…anyhow…the reduction in work hours as well as a freeze on raises…yah…you see…many of us…well….many of those that make a certain amount…had no raise in 2009…and now everyone this year 2010 gets no raise and a reduction in hours....so as I said I am not trying to jinks our way of lives…but I thinks that things will get worst before the get better.
Now, I have been lucky to have kept my job…the thing is I not only have a 8-5 job or wait a minute a 8-4.30 job, but I also am a license Real Estate agent and believe me there are only a hand full that are still keeping a float…I have seeing hundreds of agents just through up their hands and quit. I also have my Notary and I am running a website business…of course all those things…have gotten hit hard and well…many talk about hanging in there, but really how much longer can we hang in there before it becomes to much.
I am not trying to sound negative, but since 2007..its been a drive down hill and well…its not all fun when you are only headed in one direction, but yes I do keep my chin up for my family…kids…they don’t have a clue…they hear, but really don’t understand and I will keep it that way. Any how… wanted to share this, to let you know that you are not alone, there are many…many others like us out there trying to make it, some have it worst than others and we can only hope for the best. I certainly appreciate the time you took to read this and please feel free to share your story, you know I feel a bit better now that I got that off my chest.
Till next time, thanks for reading…Latino Man signing off
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