Eighth week-Time to reach out

By the eighth week, you've listened to all the advice everyone has tried to give you. You weighed your options carefully and picked out what you wanted to act on. This week is a week of reassessment and research. Everyone tells you what has worked for them. No one, however, can tell you that it will work for you. I know this, but sometimes it's definitely hard to put into practice.

Last week I shared with you a poem I wrote back in 2002. I do feel that it's even more relevant today as it was then. Evidence is everywhere that more and more big corporations are using overseas talent and/or hiring foreign workers than ever before. I know I can't compete with this. Many people I've talked to have mentioned this as a reason why they are still unemployed. What I can't understand, even as it has been explained to me at least a dozen times, is why.

Maybe I am being old fashioned here, but it makes it even more difficult, if not impossible to find employment if you're not only completing with people in your own country, but with everyone around the world. From my research, I discovered that over half of the corporations presently in the United States hire or would hire overseas for positions rather than train their own countrymen. Something about that is wrong.

Yes, I know we're in a global economy now. There is no denying that any longer, yet it just feels like you are exploiting a person if you expect them to do a job and not get paid for doing it. This makes my stomach turn, especially when someone is struggling to find work to survive.

I have to ask myself how to do I reach out and find a solution. How do we stop these good paying jobs from going overseas? Do we start boycotting products and services from companies that practice what they call outsourcing? It's not possible, because as I mentioned earlier over half of the corporations in the United States outsource to one degree or another. I don't have the solution right now, and can sympathize with the 99% when they shout that this is one of the main reasons why they are protesting right now.