WSJ-New Generation of Exported Occupation

So, here I am looking through my email as I do everyday and decide to stop and look through my Wall Street Journal college weekly. Every student should be worried about how they will be getting their next job if they are graduating within the next year. With the fears of recession on the the rise and every sign pointing toward it, jobs will be hard to find.

I remember watching a movie by Michael Moore when he addressed the CEO of Nike about jobs they have overseas. His logic, like most others have I heard, was that those jobs are jobs that “Americans don’t want.” First, I find that to be an insult to all foreigners that made up and now makes up this America. Secondly, what makes us so much better than those others nations that our jobs are being shipped to that we give our crap jobs to other countries for even less than what we would have done it for? And as this logic faults, what makes someone think that jobs such as Engineering aren’t wanted by Americans?

My newly added link has an article written by the Wall Street Journal that mentions some of the latest news concerning American transitions to the foreign labor force. Ironically I am a Business Finance major graduating in December so, I am very concerned about careers that are now being sent over seas. The WSJ just reminds us that its not jobs we don’t want that are leaving the US and employing many, but careers that we all hope to have in the future leaving our nation. Maybe I should get a passport fly to Singapore and apply with MSNBC? I’m thinking I’ll have a better shot.