Guys ...
Please.
Someone out there please tell me that I am not crazy.
I don't need more training.
I don't need a better resume.
All of the training in the world and the best resume on the planet makes no difference if no jobs are being offered.
I'm reminded of tales from the Soviet Union in the 1980s when the country was training all of these brilliant computer software programmers -- but there was little equipment for them to use and few jobs for them to perform. Yes, the USSR had lots of amazing highly-trained workers, but who cares if society did not have a use for them?
U.S. society under the current jobs-export program imposed top-down by government simply does not produce enough employment to go around.
America does not need better resumes.
It needs jobs.
America does not need better-trained workers. Better trained workers for what? The jobs that aren't being created?
In another thread, a kind commenter mentioned that jobs are out there, but you just have to be well-placed to take advantage of the opportunities.
It ain't so.
The jobs are not out there.
That is what this crisis is about.
Unemployed people cannot simply will themselves into employment without some second party that is willing to hire them.
Both private industry and government are unwilling to hire at the levels necessary to keep working families in this country afloat.
Of course citizens cannot compel private businesses to hire.
And the tax breaks for business-owners have not resulted in a satisfactory change in the unemployment rate.
So -- what is to be done?
Only Congress can do it and it is a serious and utterly depressing thing that they refuse to do so.