Funny you mention the medical field. I was talking with one of my cousins this morning, she is a RN, and the subject came up that I had heard the medical field was booming or was the next great boom, etc. She told me no way. She explained the medical field has so many graduates out of work, and I said basically that I thought with all the baby boomers, that they were predicting such a need for medical staff.
She said that for years, many many women in the medical field worked part time, nurses, nurses aids, medical records, hospice, elderly care, etc, but with this economy, their husbands have been laid off, so they have been going full time, and the companies that employ them are taking advantage of those wanting to go full time to cut part timers, but this also means that those recently graduating have no jobs, because there is a glut of experienced people in the medical field.
She also said that many doctors offices have closed over the last year. I told her that I keep reading that is a myth, and she said “no way”, many many of the older practitioners have retired this last year, especially where she is at in Arizona, and that has also contributed to medical personnel being out of work.
Also, she said it really really helps to be bi-lingual, Mexican or Filipino, and those folks are coming from both countries with certificates in hand (that they get from Mexico and the Philippines) and are willing to work with no benefits, and at half the pay of the union counterparts who are American.
This is her report from Arizona, I’m in the Midwest, and I really don’t know much about our area, or the rest of the nation, just what she has related to me about her geographical location.
I read this on nursing blogs too. However, here in SE Pa., there are many nursing jobs listed just in my small local paper-The Delco Times.
I work in the medical field...And around here you can get a job. Might not be the job you wanted, might not be the pay you wanted, and might be a long way from your home. But you can get a job.
Way back when..I was in school...Hospitals were recruiting us, left and right. Then about a year or two after I got hired...they were having lay-offs..and people were worried.
Of course with ObamaCare staring us down...no one knows what's going to happen.
Yes, I'm believing there is a glut of experienced workers in many fields and our youth is suffering. Two nephews who graduated college have not found gainful work yet either.
So much for the Stimulus.
Exactly...major hospitals in New Hampshire are talking about HUNDREDS of layoffs...trouble with getting Medicaid funds from the state...
How ironic is it that the more cushy the libs make benefits and rules (like minimum wage, health insurance, mandatory perks), the more employers turn to basically slave labor (abusing illegals or new legal immigrants)??
All this socialist Focus on the Rights of the Worker has hurt every single worker!!!!
It hurts the good American worker (who can't get a job) and the illegal abused worker (who is treated very poorly) BOTH!