It’s a well written piece – with the subheadings from page one alone telling a particularly torrid and alarming story (e.g. Quarter-million jobs, Self-worth, No Callbacks, Transaction bubble, Nobu’s Retreat).
According to my Tokyo headhunter contacts, most all the Foreign Banks are in lock down mode for IT hiring. Good people are being let go, sent overseas (Singapore is popular) or outsourced.
Here’s number 4 in the “Friday Kin” series of blog posts (the last one was back in October.)
Today’s theme is “Rebirth” – very appropriate for the Vernal Equinox that signifies Spring’s arrival in the N.Hemisphere (and the Tokyo cherry blossoms that are now blooming.)
Although Michael Stearns earned an MBA from Georgetown University in 2008, the recession’s dented his attempts to land a Bay Area marketing job.
To stand out from the crowd, he (and/or his wife) have turned to the online world – and put up the site, myhusbandneedsajob.com
For a while now, Dave Fowler’s ‘Work At Home Dad’ blog – teachmychildrenwell – has been on my personal blogroll list.
Here’s a guy that took leave of absence from a steady, secure job (law enforcement; he’s a UK policeman), in order to make a go of being a ‘work at home dad’.
When you are busy, tired and under a lot of stress, do you listen to what your body may be telling you?
For many years (in my teens and twenties) I was an active athlete and really enjoyed the sport (hurdling).
