And not only that, they tried to turn it into a POSITIVE!!! Sigh!
"Worried workers race to retool; Adults head to school in droves, fretting over layoffs, a lack of skills" by Peter Schworm, Globe Staff | January 24, 2009
Workers who have lost their jobs, or are worried that they will, are returning to the classroom in increasing numbers to bolster their resumes and pick up new skills to become more marketable to employers.
From recent immigrants improving their English, in hopes of landing better jobs, to laid-off financial analysts looking to start new careers, more adults are enrolling in career-oriented courses at colleges, workforce development programs, and vocational schools, according to college officials, employers, and labor specialists....
Yeah, they never forget who is really important!
"They know they often need that piece of paper to get ahead," said Joan Dolamore, dean of lifelong learning at Wentworth Institute of Technology....
It hasn't helped me -- nor has it stopped the outsourcing of jobs from this country!!!
Popular pursuits include legal studies, healthcare occupations, and business administration, educators say. Cooking and bartending schools also say they have drawn more interest from people looking to start a new career or for a backup plan in case their current one falters....
Monica Tosches, a 44-year-old law librarian from Malden who lost her job to downsizing last year, said her layoff made her realize that she had to stand out from the crowd. She is now enrolled at Bunker Hill's paralegal certificate program, hoping to land a more lucrative job.
"There's a saying in law firms, 'If you're not billable, you're expendable,' " said Tosches. "I'm hoping that this really pays off." With jobs scarce, people like Tosches are flocking to certificate programs, courses designed to provide specific job skills, to save the time and money necessary to pursue a degree....
Yeah, I did the STOO-PID THING by PAYING for a HISTORY DEGREE!!!
With many employers scaling back tuition reimbursement programs, more adults are paying for their studies, increasing the appeal of short-term programs with a practical focus. Since few students can afford to be without a paycheck, many are taking classes at night or on weekends, or online, where they can make their own schedule....
Massachusetts has lagged behind other states during the past decade in the number of students earning two-year degrees and undergraduate certificates, raising questions about the adult education system and concerns about the overall skill level of the workforce....
Translation: We are NOT as SMART as wees thinks wees ares!!!
And yet we are still a bunch of N.E. snobs about ejerkashun!
"I'm not sure what my next step is," said Vladimir Yeliseyev, 30, a native of Belarus who works as a lab technician at Brigham and Women's Hospital. "But I'm sure I need to learn English and continue my education."
WTF?
Not that all workers are returning to school for necessity's sake. Jeff Dudley of New Hampshire found himself with the freedom and financial flexibility to attend culinary school after the startup data storage company he worked for was purchased by Dell. Now he attends Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts to become an executive caterer.
"For a long time, I did what I had to do," said Dudley, 43. "Now I am hoping to do what I want to do."No one is paying me for what I want to do -- blog!
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Update: Talk about INSULTS!!
After running the AMERICAN WORKERS on a SLOW SATURDAY, the FRONT-PAGE, ABOVE-the-FOLD story gracing today's agenda-pushing Metro setion!
"Lost in transition; Many immigrants find it difficult to rebuild careers in US" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | January 25, 2009
Talk about PUSHING an AGENDA!!! Good-frikkin'-Christ!!!!!!!!!
A doctor from Afghanistan runs a cash register at the Walmart in Lynn. A former two-star general from the same country works as an $11-an-hour security guard in Somerville. And a onetime high-powered lawyer from Albania labored in a Worcester factory before being laid off.
I'd take it -- if there were jobs like that around here!
For them, America was a path to safety, even while it was a huge step down in status.
In Afghanistan, Ahmad Darvesh wore a crisp, white coat and a stethoscope as he diagnosed emergency room patients suffering from bullet wounds or pneumonia. In Lynn, with a Walmart badge clipped to his shirt collar, he strikes up brief conversations with customers as he scans their purchases. The customers do not know it, but he chats because he misses talking to his patients.
"I'm tired," the soft-spoken 50-year-old said in an interview in his Chelsea apartment, with his diplomas and photographs arrayed on a folding table in the kitchen. "I'm tired of working in a job that is only for the money. I'm a doctor. . . . I could be more useful."
Across Massachusetts and the nation, 1 in 5 college-educated immigrants and refugees are unemployed or toiling in low-level jobs because they cannot easily adapt their skills in the United States - a phenomenon the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute called "brain waste" in a recent study.
Yeah, you SHIT-EATING Amurkns aren't worthy of those jobs!!
Yeah, this blatant, in-your-face, bullshit from the Globe bothers me, yeah!!!!!!!!!!!
It is an age-old quandary for immigrants who hold doctoral degrees and speak multiple languages, but aren't fluent in English and lack professional networks to steer them to jobs.
Yeah, but DON'T WORRY about that AMERICAN, Globe!
We are all cooking and bartending and the lay-offs are a GREAT OPPORTUNITY!!!!
Now, the problem is getting newfound attention from state officials who are considering expanding programs as immigrants in Massachusetts clamor for more training and assistance.
You gotta be fucking shitting me? As the GUV HACKS AWAY at the BUDGET and FUCKS TAXPAYERS?
Many immigrants are able to rebuild their careers here, while some return home, frustrated. But others do neither; they lack the ability to find work in their chosen fields and are fearful of returning to their native countries because of violence or economic crises.
Yeah, too bad Americans can't REBUILD!!! As for the violence and economic crises where they are from -- CAUSED by AMERIKA!!!!!
"This is a gaping hole of waste for the United States," said Jane Leu, executive director of Upwardly Global, a nonprofit founded in San Francisco in 2003 to guide foreign-born professionals, from real estate agents to professors, back into their fields. "These are people who have every ability to contribute and want to."
And as long as they are IMMIGRANTS, the GLOBALIST GLOBE APPROVES!!!!
For the college-educated immigrants - some 1.3 million nationwide - the plunge in prestige may come as no surprise, but it is still overwhelming for many.
Yeah, FORGET ABOUT COLLEGE-EDUCATED AMERICANS!!!
Faced with an urgent need to earn a paycheck, immigrants often take what advocates call "survival jobs."
WHO ISN'T?
Often, they suffer from depression, culture shock, and abrupt downward mobility, while less-educated immigrants typically experience an increase in pay.
AWWWW, the POOR, POOR IMMIGRANTS who are driving down wages and stealing jobs!!!!
Yup, GOOD THING that AMERICANS don't get depresssed, etc, etc.
Fuck you, BG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many immigrants lack the American-style experience of aggressively seeking jobs, Leu said. In Afghanistan, for instance, the government picked the best students, told them where to study, and assigned them a career.
What are you saying, Globe? They are lazy?
In Albania, Robert Gjoni was a young, high-powered lawyer who worked his way up to judge, then legal counsel to the deputy prime minister. But since 1996, when he came to America to avoid turmoil in his country, he has been a dishwasher, temporary worker, valve assembler, and security guard. He went to trade school, taught himself English, and became a quality-control supervisor at a factory, but was just laid off. Now he is 45, and struggling to figure out what to do next....
You know what? I REALLY DON'T GIVE a FUCK about HIS PROBLEMS!!!! I have MY OWN, you agenda-pushing puss-pails!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Underemployed immigrants cost the United States money, according to the Migration Policy Institute, because they earn less than their potential and therefore pay lower taxes.
I'm sick of the shit, folks!! Just damn sick of it!
Ghulam Farooq, a former general in Afghanistan whose job was to strengthen the army, felt fleetingly useful to the United States after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He had come here fleeing the Taliban regime in 2000. After the attacks, federal officials and diplomats sought his advice on the war in Afghanistan.
But they have all moved on. Now the 64-year-old security guard and US citizen is stationed at the door of a medical office building, with a space heater to ward off the winter chill. He carries a folder with news clippings about the war, and in hushed tones outlines strategies to win the conflict. But almost nobody listens....
Yeah, I KNOW the FEELING!!!!!!!
Many immigrants endure the loss of prestige in silence....
Good thing Americans don't, huh?
Jacques Kitembo, a 50-year-old French professor who fled political persecution in Congo and Rwanda, bites his tongue when customers argue with him over the cost of the parking garage, where he works weekends as a cashier. "Sometimes I want to tell them, 'Do you know who I am?' " he said.
Kitembo, born in Congo, said he realized several years after arriving in the United States in 2004 that he had to ask for help. He became a job-hunting dynamo: He joined the American Association of Teachers of French, which sent him e-mails on job opportunities, he asked the nonprofit Jewish Vocational Service in Boston for help finding a job, and scoured the Internet for leads.
(Blog author just shaking his head at the AmeriKan jewsmedia and its shamelessness)
He has found work teaching classes at four public and private schools and colleges, but he still needs the parking garage job to earn extra money to bring his family to the United States.
Hey, how about GIVING UP one of the FIVE JOBS so WE CAN HAVE ONE?
And he's BRINGING HIS FAMILY HERE, too!
Hey, look, readers, I am far from a racist: read my Africa posts; however, I AM OPPOSE to this CELEBRATION of the GLOBALIST AGENDA and its IN-YOUR-FACE PROMOTION!!!!!!!!!!
Unlike Kitembo, many immigrants do not know where to begin.
Neither do I!
Richard Chacón, executive director of the state's Office for Refugees and Immigrants, said the agency is working to better coordinate programs for immigrants and refugees statewide - and to expand existing programs for healthcare professionals.
While OUR SERVICES are HACKED to the BONE!!!! Un-fucking-real!!!!!!!!!
"There's a real need for both some assistance but also some shepherding through the process," he said. State officials say it is possible for immigrants to return to their careers. Physicians, for instance, must pass two medical-licensing exams in English and complete a two-year paid residency program in a hospital to get their licenses, according to the state's Board of Registration in Medicine. Community colleges, the state, and nonprofits all run programs to help job-seekers.
Yeah, if they are IMMIGRANTS, not Americans!!!!
But for the most part in Massachusetts, it is up to immigrants to find the help on their own.
Pfffft! I'm tired of commenting on their shit-shoveling buullshit, folks!
In San Francisco, New York, and Chicago, Leu said, immigrants are flocking to Upwardly Global, which helps them six months to a year after their arrival.
Where is MY HELP?
I've been a PRODUCTIVE CITIZEN my WHOLE LIFE and have gotten NOTHING BACK!!!!
The nonprofit assigns immigrants a mentor and six weeks of classes on how to find jobs in their fields in the United States. The program cost about $1.4 million last year to serve 500 people, up from 40 people in 2003.
That's YOUR TAX MONEY, folks!!!!!!!
Taking a step toward returning to a job in a hospital, Darvesh completed a biomedical course in May at Bunker Hill Community College through a program called Just a Start. All his life, he has been assigned to his job, and he hopes the program will find him a new job soon.
"In the US you have a lot of opportunity," he said. "But everything is up to you."You know, I'm sick of the LAND of OPPORTUNITY and BOOTSTRAP shit when the JOBS are being OFFSHORED and OUTSOURCED!!!!
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