TheJobBored

I’ve written before that I’m worried people chained to underwater mortgages will upset the supply and demand balance in the job market.
One of the unique things about the American job landscape is the ability of workers to easily go to where the jobs are. If you can’t find decent work in New Jersey, you can […]

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As we all know, even in a recession, not all areas of the economy suffer equally… or at all. As I said before, 2002 would have been a bad year to work in computer programming, but would have been a great year to be hired as a programmer at Google.
And this is true for geography […]

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This week’s BusinessWeek has the first solid statistics I’ve seen that prove that health care is the new plastics. (The Graduate reference) By that I mean, health care is finally fulfilling its promise as THE growth industry of the next 50 years.
For about 15 years now, prognosticators have sworn up and down that, for population […]

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Back in January I pointed out some data that seemed to suggest where in the country the job market was still holding up.
In this weekend’s New York Times, there was the usual hand wringing article suggesting that maybe the job market has turned nasty.
But right next to the article (if you follow the link, scroll […]

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It looks like the tough times are spreading to the retail sector as we started to fear last week.
First there was the bad news from Best Buy.
Now there is widespread expectation that the major retails will be reporting sluggish sales this week.
As always, I’m not an economist. But part of what I want to do […]

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Ok, I can explain the odd title and the unusual picture. Stick with me. (Tip for younger readers, that’s Laverne and Shirley)
Once again Cheezhead led me to some interesting job search statistics.
This report by the Conference Board samples and outlines the volume of online help-wanted classified postings nationwide. It shows some interesting data pointing to […]

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