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September 30, 2005
Looking for work
Nathalie's looking for work now. It's keeping her busy. It's curious to watch and to try to help someone who is clearly competent to do lots of things, but who has been out of the paid work force for so long.
It reminds me of what Joanne said about her fears of starting to work again after her boys grew up enough to go to school. Once she got back in, she realized there's not much to it. But when you're not working it seems so daunting.
At some point I'll be looking actively again. Not that I'd like to leave the team I work with now, but that thorough documentation is going to become a luxury people won't want to pay for. At least not while the people paying are CIOs and folks at that level. Our folks at that level and their folks at that level will figure most useful info can be gleaned either with Google, or somehow through support. It could be made to work, especially the second one. Though I don't know if it'll be easy to make money from that and to slam IBM for doing so at the same time.
Hope Nathalie finds something she likes.
This evening I took the car home because I had to be here in time for Nathalie to go to school for a parent-teacher meeting. France Inter was broadcasting a program of interviews with social workers and employment agents who made it sound like their jobs were mainly to get people off the unemployment lists one way or another. More than one of them claimed the oft-repeated idea that France has plenty of jobs, people just don't want to work, is false, or at least misleading. There may technically be employers who're willing to take people in if they'll work hard under rough conditions in a precarious position far from home at bad hours for a pittance. But those positions are going unfilled.
Most of the interviewees thought the criteria would eventually push more and more people off the unemployment lists one way or another, usually leaving them in dire straits. Hard to see how that might turn around.
Posted by Mark at September 30, 2005 09:01 PM
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