Comments on: Reason to give thanks: There is no job shortage for young people

By: Jobs for Teenagers

Jobs for Teenagers — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:54:45 +0000

I think I should agree with the above statement. It seems that your observation last year was wrong. I even read how a man begged for an hourly job which are commonly done by teenagers because he got fired after working for more than five years as a restaurant manager. It seems that this situation is not getting better yet and many teenagers got frustrated already.

By: Recent grads are the silver lining | TalentEgg Career Incubator

Recent grads are the silver lining | TalentEgg Career Incubator — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:42:27 +0000

[...] Careerist founder Penelope Trunk recently posted some encouraging evidence that young workers are holding their own in the current [...]

By: Magnus Avery

Magnus Avery — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:10:39 +0000

I reside in the Inland Empire of California, and I don't know where in the hell you are getting these sources of information from, but they are entirely false. I have been seeking work for over two years now, since graduating from high school so that I might be able to afford and attend Pre-Med in college, but there, and I will emphasize this, are NO JOBS ANYWHERE FOR THE UNSKILLED AND THE SKILLED ALIKE – NONE.

I went to an In-N-Out interview at the local college last year, and THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE, I repeat, THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE were lined up for EIGHT POSITIONS! There were old people, middle aged people, teenagers and even people with COLLEGE DEGREES standing in that line FOR HOURS AND THE ENTIRE PROCESS WENT ON FOR THREE DAYS! Does this sound like there are jobs out there to you? I think not. And this situation is happening all over this state and many others (the Staples center had the same scenario unfold a month previous to this). There is no more work for the rightful, LEGAL citizens of America and our futures are being destroyed.

So please, do the honorable thing and STOP adding insult to injury with slapping us in the face with lies and false hopes like what you're spewing in this article – it is degrading to us all!

By the way, why don't you people write about something tangible – like how ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION is destroying this country – 1 MILLION PEOPLE A YEAR! These people are a HUGE part of the reason we are all in this mess to begin with, remember the housing markets crashing and people getting pissed off because 85% of those home buyers defaulted and basically destroyed wall street? That was them! HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT THOSE PEOPLE ARE THE *ONLY* ONES GETTING THE 0 YEARS EXPERIENCE JOBS LATELY? THE *ONLY* ONES THAT ARE ABLE TO RECEIVE HEALTH CARE? The *ONLY* ones able to buy that shiny new Escalade?!

WAKE UP, OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE WHAT THE REAL ISSUES ARE – AND FIX THEM! GET THOSE PEOPLE OUT OF HERE OR MAKE THEM PAY FOR THEIR NEEDS AND WANTS AND MAKE THEM SUPPORT "THE SYSTEM" LIKE THE REST OF US INSTEAD OF LETTING THEM BRING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE CRIPPLING DOWN ONTO IT'S KNEES BY MAKING *US* BREAK OUR BACKS TO SUPPORT THEM, LEAVING NOTHING LEFT FOR OURSELVES!

By: chris

chris — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:00:28 +0000

What is this guy smoking lol? There are nearly no jobs available for college students or graduates. It's even worse for graduate students right now. Several of my friends have just graduated with law degrees, and MBA's and they haven't found a job yet. I hope someone will impeach Barack Obama before he spends every last dollar the American people have earned.

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Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:15:07 +0000

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Tue, 19 May 2009 03:53:59 +0000

[...] Of course, don't get me started. The baby boomers had a great run spending tons of money they didn't have and then bitching that the economic rug is pulled out from under them. But there is no mention that Gen X never even had a good run. How about reporting that?" Penelope Trunk [...]

By: John Michael

John Michael — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:35:36 +0000

for example … a very visible AMERICAN company is AMERICAN no more … "Anheuser-Busch InBev was formed late last year when Belgium-based InBev, maker of Stella Artois, bought U.S.-based Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion."

and they're closing things down, guess where?

By: John Michael

John Michael — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:55:41 +0000

As long as we continue to buy stuff made elsewhere and receive 55,000 (YES FIFTY FIVE THOUSAND!) containers A DAY of things that could easily be made here in the US, the number of jobs will not be sufficient for you to get employed…

As long as companies rely upon labor in foreign countries to be your "customer service" (is there such a thing anymore?) then the number of jobs will be sufficient for you to get employed…

The Managers and executives of those above are NOT located in the United States.

As long as we continually "SELL AMERICA" (our buildings, our highways, our bridges, our parks, etc.) to the world, the Cash will go outside and fund the development of those countries.

Need I go on? We've drained our funding…

By: bob frank

bob frank — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:06:13 +0000

on the contrary, there is quite a shortage of jobs for young professionals in every industry i've researched. graduated top 20 school in top 5% of class with 4 years internship experience. no prospects. what do u recommend we do?

By: mike

mike — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:45:20 +0000

What are you smoking?

Go do your own independent research, and take a look at the lack of entry level jobs on all the electronic job boards. Open your local Newspaper's Job section, and attempt to conjure some makeshift opportunity. An entry level job is a myth, so I'm off to Asia. I'll be back in 10 or so years when things have improved.