I'll Survive. Will You?

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In the last two years, our economy has shed over 7.2 million jobs. Many of these jobs are being lost PERMANENTLY - not permanently in the sense that Job X just isn't available, but PERMANENTLY because Job X no longer exists. New jobs will arise, but as The Wall Street Journal points out, it is anyone's guess what those jobs will be. The only guess The Labor Department has is that perhaps health care will be a bright spot in the future accounting for the millions of baby boomers that will flood the medical system. A guess, at best. Who's to say how the botched attempts at heatlh care reform will influence our economy via jobs and employment for the next 20 years.

So what? We're all supposed to become nurses?

Too, there is something different with this recession. We're forced into a very sudden job adjustment rather than the gradual reactionary period we've faced in the past. So what? We were all supposed to have received our nurses training 4 years ago - before the 2007 great economic guillotine drop?

Despite your thoughts about how that might sound facetious, the answer is actually YES.

When in doubt, learn something new. Something, anything! Subscribe for free podcasts or free online courses. Go back to school. Read new books. Investing in human capital - YOU'RE capital - will float you to the top of the pile when new, never before seen jobs arise on the scene.

Don't have time, you say? Sorry to hear that. The reality is you can spend a few extra hours a week investing in your own education, or you can spend a few more months on the bread lines. Pick one.

I personally want to be in the front of the line when the next, brand new job opportunities are created. In fact, I want to be so well informed that I can create my own damn job.  Even British newspapers refer to the American Economy as Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. 

The only standard rule of this current economy is Darwinian Theory.

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