| There is a strange connection between | | | | I would not go as far as deducing that visitors to |
| unemployment in California and the new found | | | | my blog site are because of the surge in |
| interest in self employment. I have noticed, of | | | | unemployment. But there sure is an element of |
| late, to my blog site, that a good 50% of visitors | | | | interest sparked by those lay-offs however |
| are Californians which fact evoked interest in me | | | | resignations are altogether a different chapter |
| to go to the root of this all. Not surprisingly my | | | | which I think could also have partly contributed to |
| attention turned towards employment and | | | | my web traffic. |
| unemployment figures before anything else. You | | | | Being on ones own self, earning as ones own |
| may not be surprised, the Employment | | | | boss has always been the passion for humans. If |
| Development Department of California | | | | someone gets into business out of passion it is |
| government has released its unemployment | | | | compulsion for some others. Although there is no |
| survey for the year 2007 but the surprising thing | | | | conclusive barometer which measures which is |
| in it is there is not a rise in the figure for this year | | | | more and why a whole community has got into |
| in comparison to last year in percentage terms. It | | | | either form of earning livelihood but times such as |
| used to be around 5% but this time round the | | | | these stand testimony for this. |
| figure has climbed down to 4.8%. But does it | | | | Taking up business, small or tiny, out of |
| really mean that more people in the earning age | | | | compulsion requires a lot of pre-training which |
| are now happily employed? Unfortunately not so. | | | | these people may have missed through their |
| As I dug deeper, it more or less became explicit | | | | careers. The daily chores, the burden of paying |
| that the governmental figures in percentage are | | | | monthly bills and keeping the earning wheel |
| more of an eye wash than anything else. There | | | | moving may further complicate matters for at |
| were employees who left their jobs on their own | | | | least a few of them. Internet is a huge source of |
| at a whopping 87,100 and the number of those | | | | information for such desperate seekers. |
| who were laid off by employers stood at 1/3 of | | | | Unfortunately there are vulgarly huge numbers of |
| above figure. It is implicit that the rest were | | | | fraud websites than there are genuine ones. Let's |
| either new entrants or re-entrants to the job | | | | make online earning, the catch word a reasonable |
| market out of the total 877,000 unemployed | | | | source for the desolate souls. |
| persons. | | | | |