What are your thoughts on this?

[One on One]

I found this link on craigslist:

http://www.gonewiththeworld.com/blog.php?sublist=(49)(0

I haven't entered the corporate world yet so I'm curious how accurate you think it is.

[SunDevil]

As someone who just graduated, it took me 11 months to find a job. Finding your first job is hard enough, trying to compete with all of the laid-off people who have families to support and will work at any price just to keep food on the table is even harder. I won't even touch the immigrant issue here.*

The thing you should keep in mind is to do something different. Have some sort of specialty that you can do well. And if you have some examples of your work, it can't hurt. If everybody is doing something today, in 4-8 years there will be an over supply of them, and wages will drop.

I am still adjusting to being a corporate wage slave. And I'm counting the days until I can retire.

As to that web site, free trade is all a theory. It may hurt in the short term, but if it raises a few third world countries like India and China to where they have money to buy American products, it would be a good thing. But it hasn't worked out that way. Programmers and tech support workers in India are getting paid large salaries(for India). But they live in a world were if you make $5.15/hr you would be better off than half the country. They aren't bringing the entire country up to the standard US model of living. It is just artificially boosting the number of low income workers since the middle class in America got too expensive to hire. It is the CEOs and stockholders of these large companies that are making the most on this deal. (And a lot of them want to retire on their investments in the next few years.)




*(In a fair/free market, farmers would have to pay ~10-15/hr to get Americans out harvesting crops, but then prices would go up in the grocery store, and we would just import all of the food at lower cost, and the expensive American food would go bad, so farms would go bankrupt...)

[Ederratic]

The article appears to be written by a nerd who wishes he majored in business and partied rather than pursuing a field he was genuinely interested in. He is right by suggesting you can survive off social ability in corporate america however it's not the responsibilty of a University to teach you how to be social. I learned the hard way that it's not what you know but who you know however some lessons are best learned the hard way.

For what it's worth I have met several people who had the same job function as me and loved it while I openly dispised the work. It is possible to be a corporate wage slave and still love what you do.