Your Next Job

In Washington on Wednesday, September 8, 2010, in a speech given by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, she said, "mounting U.S. debt threatens the United States' ability to chart its own course in the world." In the last presidential election, voters, having fallen on hard times, elected an anti-business president who together with a self-indulgent congress is about to bankrupt the country. If you are amongst the 19 million job seekers in America, we have some tips you will not get anywhere else.


In the post 2008 crunch period, everything is going to change, and not all for the better, Competition will greatly increase. What we used to call “Third World” countries, China, India, for example are catching up with the western world. Obama’s world, ideally, would ensure a college degree to every high school graduate. President Obama’s desire to increase government interference in how business is taxed and regulated will shift economic growth from the US to venues that are more accommodating.

We don’t have to look back too many years to see how the advent of the personal computer has changed all of our lives. Sonny and I don’t read the newspaper much anymore, the internet, or TV is easier and more relevant. You can now read popular books without wasting paper.

Sonny says, the job you had may never come back and if you are collecting unemployment, now is an excellent time to dust off your crystal ball to see what is in your future.

Start with some self-evaluation. Ask yourself:
Is the company you worked for still in business?
Does somebody have your old job?
Are you approaching or over fifty?

If the answer to any of these questions is “yes,” you may have fallen victim to the Peter Principle, which states: "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." An example would be when the top salesman is rewarded by naming him Sales Manager. In this case, the company lost some sales and acquirers an unskilled manager.

Take the Triple A test to score your job potentiality:
ATTITUDE: a state of mind.
APTITUDE: inherent ability;
AMBITION: a strong desire to achieve.

Rank yourself high for a particular job in the triple A, and you probably have a job.

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Ms Nancy our congressional elective,

Has a memory quite defective.

The right says she lies,

And the left says she tries

With her lies to be more effective.


Words to live by:


Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Groucho Marx

Bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape.
Karl Marx