It’s so hard to sit here and job hunt all day, finding little (if anything) to apply for. My back hurts, but that may be due to my week as an uber-female.
I applied for one great position at WB; but, even though John can send an e-recommendation for me, it’s still me against thousands of others. I hope to hear from them though. I’ve not heard back from more than 2 of the hundreds of other jobs I’ve applied for over the past few weeks. It’s very discouraging.
CNN has been my best friend and worst enemy – keeping me company all day long, but all-the-while reminding me that things are not getting better. I am really worried about our economy. I sincerely hope and wish and pray that we find a way to cap executive salaries. Imagine that each CEO of a large company makes about $1 million a year. That’s 20 $50K jobs! So, if you pay the CEO about what the President makes (~ $450K), then that still leaves 11 new jobs!!! That’s great! I know that there are many high-level executives, and if all of them get cut down to $450,000, that’s even more money for the company to grow and hire employees! I am sure that CEOs and Execs will be thoroughly pissed, but they can still invest money in the markets and make their millions that way. It’s just that I don’t think that any company should pay someone that much! No job is THAT tough! Firefighters don’t even make $100K per year!!! Anyhow, I really hope Congress doesn’t listen to corporate lobbyists here. They really need to make a law that limits executive salaries. I think it will do great things for the economy. Seriously, everyone can live off of $450K… so, there’s no reason to make more than that! Hell, I’d be ecstatic to make $100K one day!
As for the debate, I completely agree with Obama that our future President needs to be able to handle more than one thing at a time. McCain can take a few hours out of his day and debate Obama! The American people not only want it, but many of them NEED it! We need to hear from our future leader(s) to give us hope that we will make it through this. Dumbass Bush didn’t help last night by worrying everyone. He basically said ‘we’re screwed if we don’t give this money to Wall Street now,’ but what can we do? I’m sitting, jobless, in my apartment! I can write to my Congressional leaders all I want, but they aren’t going to listen to me. There’s a committee assigned to this crisis, and it’ll be up to them. So, what I need and what I want, is to hear McCain and Obama discuss this issue and more, tomorrow night! The sooner the better. I want hope that I will be employable in an economy that may one day rise again! I need some confidence thrown at me, NOW!
I’m going to go make some cookies! Bah!