Not offering a job is bate for the competition

This is not what I'm searching for. Written on 11-09-2011 by Emma_Barker

Where I live four people have started their own business. And that's 38% of the residents, since I live in position. For everybody starting just starting out, all of us are between the ages of 35 and 55 years old, this initial phase is very exciting.

Everything will work out fine

Everyone wonders if 'it will all work out' and if we will be capable of supporting ourselves and our families. Luckily the signs are not unfavourable. According to the biased reports of the Chamber of Commerce in the national newspapers, the economy is looking up. Their motivation in various articles being "because there are more new small businesses". Believe me, I am not making this up!

Diversification

One of us has started in carpentry. Another one is in the process of starting a temporary employment agency. Yet another went into cosmetics and I am starting a communication agency. Oh, that's right, a former interim manager is teaching all over the country; he wants to make enough money in order to keep driving his American convertible.

In my circle of friends there's a multitude of new businesses: a hairdresser, a beautician, a few artists, a wedding planner, a manufacturer of synthetic material, a design agency and a small company in imagineering. That is a new discipline in PR, but the market is already saturated.

Unwilling employers

None of these people are able to find an interested employer. But none of these new businesses are willing to let themselves be scared off by the unwillingness of employers to take in this new draft of 'passionates'. So for the time being all current employers can keep their money in their pockets, dismiss their personnel and stay out of harm's way. Preferably after collecting parttime unemployment premiums and the likes. That's just the way they are.

Away with the cliche

How often don't you hear somebody say that "if you want to work in this country, you can". This is bollocks. In this day and age that doesn't apply when you're 45+, an immigrant, female, live too far away or ask for reasonable wages.