← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · jay
Thread ID: 7719 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2003-06-30
2003-06-30 16:18 | User Profile
This article was from April 2002. It has some good info, such as the factoid there are 76M baby boomers - and only 46M Gen X'ers. Lots of open jobs in the next dozen years. Of course, they may all be in Shanghai or Bombay by then....One more thing: maybe when white boomers are retired and not working 60 hours a week, THEN they may wake up and see what's going on - Jay
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The Coming Job Boom The help-wanted ads may look thin ââ¬â but thanks to aging baby boomers, that's about to change By DANIEL EISENBERG At a time when the job market still seems bleak, the outlook for Alex and Cindi Ignatovsky, both 33, could not be much brighter. After trying out a number of different careers, the Aptos, Calif., couple have recently discovered their true callings. Alex, who had been a paralegal and had also done a brief stint as an insurance salesman, has just started working as a juvenile-probation officer, helping kids wend their way through the crowded criminal-justice system. Cindi, who previously was an editor and a graphic designer, is now busy finishing up an intensive, multiyear program to become an acupuncturist. In her view, as she puts it, "there's as much opportunity as I make of it."
She's right, about both her and her husband's prospects--but not just because they're passionate and adept at what they do. They have also, as it turns out, each chosen fields--in his case, law enforcement and social services, in hers, health care--that are feeling the first effects of the coming job boom. That's right. Even as thousands of Americans are still getting pink slips, powerful help is on the way. And it has more to do with demographics than economics. The oldest members of the huge baby-boom generation are now 56, and as they start retiring, job candidates with the right skills will be in hot demand. As Mitch Potter of human-resources consultant William M. Mercer says, "The dotcom bubble created a false talent crunch. The real one is coming."
2003-06-30 17:06 | User Profile
Originally posted by jay@Jun 30 2003, 11:18 * ** > This article was from April 2002.ÃÂ It has some good info, such as the factoid there are 76M baby boomers - and only 46M Gen X'ers.ÃÂ Lots of open jobs in the next dozen years.ÃÂ Of course, they may all be in Shanghai or Bombay by then....One more thing: maybe when white boomers are retired and not working 60 hours a week, THEN they may wake up and see what's going on - Jay*
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The Coming Job Boom The help-wanted ads may look thin ââ¬â but thanks to aging baby boomers, that's about to change By DANIEL EISENBERG At a time when the job market still seems bleak, the outlook for Alex and Cindi Ignatovsky, both 33, could not be much brighter. After trying out a number of different careers, the Aptos, Calif., couple have recently discovered their true callings. Alex, who had been a paralegal and had also done a brief stint as an insurance salesman, has just started working as a juvenile-probation officer, helping kids wend their way through the crowded criminal-justice system. Cindi, who previously was an editor and a graphic designer, is now busy finishing up an intensive, multiyear program to become an acupuncturist. In her view, as she puts it, "there's as much opportunity as I make of it."
She's right, about both her and her husband's prospects--but not just because they're passionate and adept at what they do. They have also, as it turns out, each chosen fields--in his case, law enforcement and social services, in hers, health care--that are feeling the first effects of the coming job boom. That's right. Even as thousands of Americans are still getting pink slips, powerful help is on the way. And it has more to do with demographics than economics. The oldest members of the huge baby-boom generation are now 56, and as they start retiring, job candidates with the right skills will be in hot demand. As Mitch Potter of human-resources consultant William M. Mercer says, "The dotcom bubble created a false talent crunch. The real one is coming."
Jay, interesting article....interesting in that Mr Eisenberg seems to really be saying that we will have a serious, serious shortage of American workers therefore reinforcing his cousin Lazarus' statement, " send us your refuse, send us your hudled masses, etc" to fill the rest of these jobs!! China, c'mon! India, c'mon! South America, c'mon!
2003-06-30 17:43 | User Profile
xmetalhead:
My first thoughts too. For twenty years, off and on, we've been getting the "worker shortage/job boom" chatter from the newsroom toffs. For the same period of time wages have stagnated and opportunities have dried up. What's it take to notice this scam? Hard to say. Only this time there's no twenty years left, hombres.
2003-06-30 17:53 | User Profile
*Originally posted by Ragnar@Jun 30 2003, 12:43 * ** xmetalhead:
My first thoughts too. For twenty years, off and on, we've been getting the "worker shortage/job boom" chatter from the newsroom toffs. For the same period of time wages have stagnated and opportunities have dried up. What's it take to notice this scam? Hard to say. Only this time there's no twenty years left, hombres. **
Agreed Ragnar, well said. It's all yew-know-who bullshit that there is going to be a boom, when it's the Cabal that controls the market anyway. They're giving the signal to the rest of the world that White America is done and over and we will be looking for a few good muds....oopps men. American factories and industry will simply bring in billions of 3rd worlders instead of sending the whole company overseas.
You're right also, there's not twenty years left. There's not even 5 left.
2003-07-01 03:59 | User Profile
Yes, this article is no surprise. It marks the death of "White" control of this nation. Once the baby boomers bust this country is gone. Not that it's in great shape today, but unbeknownst to these "baby boomers", they are White America's last vestige in the workforce. The last foothold this nation has. Look for productivity to decline, quality to plummet, and the diversity to skyrocket. God bless America. :thd:
2003-07-01 14:37 | User Profile
Well, at least they'll be able to have cheap labor doing their lawn work at their "assisted living" homes in their dying years.
And they'll feel really safe when everytime they see a plumber come in, it's a greasy mexican looking at them with an evil grin. On my wedding cruise, it was all old, white people w/money.
All serviced by nonwhites without it. I wonder what they all thought.
-Jay
2003-07-03 04:20 | User Profile
I grew up in a rich white family. Rich white people think that the nonwhites who serve them are their friends. They don't understand that the landscaper/waiter/security guard etc. who smiles at them and laughes at their dumb jokes really hates their guts. They are so guileless and full of good will towards their fellow featherless bipeds that it is inconceivable to them that other people might not be the same way.
2003-07-03 04:24 | User Profile
*Originally posted by jay@Jul 1 2003, 07:37 * ** Well, at least they'll be able to have cheap labor doing their lawn work at their "assisted living" homes in their dying years.
And they'll feel really safe when everytime they see a plumber come in, it's a greasy mexican looking at them with an evil grin. On my wedding cruise, it was all old, white people w/money.
All serviced by nonwhites without it. I wonder what they all thought.
-Jay **
The funny part about mexican plumbers, is that they steal stuff when no one is looking. It seems mexicans in general can't resist the urge to steal when they can, or perhaps they view it as just "borrowing".
2003-07-03 07:06 | User Profile
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How else do you think they make their living? They're just bringing old habits from Mexico into America.
2003-07-03 14:39 | User Profile
One argument I never understand is when fellow whites tell me that "I wouldn't want to do those jobs, either"
To which I respond, "How did they get done 50 years ago? Did people not eat at restaurants, have their lawn mowed, or cut meat?" Plus, you have to consider the social costs of immigration. Higher police costs, medical, over-crowding, etc.
If you wiped out the ghetto of every large city of the USA, the GDP of the country would decrease by a blip at MOST. They take in more of services than they pay into.
-Jay