"We should just be happy we still have jobs."
That was what was said yesterday after a meeting in our building. Sure, looking on the rosy side of things we are very grateful that our jobs haven't simply vanished to be replaced with highly trained monkeys (do they have opposable thumbs?).
Looking realistically, we should demand better. While I am well aware that the economy currently sucks and anyone that thinks we aren't currently deep in a recession is too crazy for any hope but America is supposed to be this great land of hope and prosperity. Maybe it still is but our only hope as the world's supposed greatest (and at one time only) superpower is this November.
Our country is in desperate need of a change. A change for the better. A change where innovation is encouraged and rewarded in the marketplace. I am busting with innovative ideas pertaining to my job and my employer but with the latest changes, it has shown me that America is too concerned with the "now" and, more importantly, the bottom line to foster any sort of innovation that could lead to a better tomorrow.
That doesn't mean that I'm going to stop coming up with and finding new ways to draw in the masses and bring about my own form of hope. Heck, all you have to do is click here to see that there is still plenty of amazing talent in the way of photographers right in our own back yard. They haven't crawled into a cocoon and neither have I. When things are down, the only direction the future can go is up.
3 comments:
Sornie, but it's only a mental recession fueled by the media.
We're obviously just imagining all of this like the New Aged GOP are imagining that they aren't a bunch of fucking criminals.
sornie- I sell steel(less every day!) in Michigan. We are a picture of things to come. Service industries- we won't make crap, unless it's in the toilet... Unemployment percentages you haven't even imagined- Look at Great Britain and you have seen our future. Have a sparkling day!
I'm leading a one man crusade to go from "We should be happy to have jobs" to "You should be happy I'm working so hard to make you motherfuckers richer than God."
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