Wednesday, March 3, 2010
What Have You Learned?
On an optimistic note I think that the economic roller coaster that the US has been on has taught people a lot about themselves. People learn what they are willing to do to keep their pay, and keep their hours. You notice which friends are truly friends and which friends have other priorities. It also teaches people about how they deal with not getting what they want. Like I mentioned in my earlier post a lot of the jobs that are available right now are jobs that most people are not correctly qualified for either that be over qualified or under qualified. People are being forced to make decision whether to keep what they see as their pride by declining jobs under their ability and qualifications and risk financial ruins. People also face the problem of being under qualified and must struggle with the choice of whether to go back to school. Peoples patience and creativity are and have been tested the question is what have you learned?
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I really like the observation about how our economic crisis is teaching people about themselves; one could argue that one of the by-products of the bubble-based "good times" we were experiencing up until late 2008 was to prevent people from reflecting upon themselves, what the "good life" really means, what our value really is within the scheme of a consumer capitalist system that evaluates everything and everyone in terms of money.
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