For those of us that have known that reality, wheather we built our business from the ground up, or work a corporate 9 to 5 while supporting our families, it is those first days of our endeavors that helped build strong work ethics within us. Now is the teachable moment for many in todays potential workforce. The only problem is, their is a sharp learning curve ahead.

You’re right it is a compilation of a number of reasons, though I’m not sure how to feel about that kind of dead weight in our government. If there are four of you with nothing to do getting paid while we’re dying for workers and getting gouged to offer them benefits and good salaries it makes me think there is an imbalance in the system. Although yes there are some startups and small businesses that pay crap and over no compensation we are not one of those. We offer flex time, paid vacations, remote work schedules, benefits, bonuses, incentives, continuing ed packages, and more. We don’t fire someone because the economy slows down, we work something out, get creative, do more marketing. We only let people go when they don’t do the work. There is no one size fits all and everyone’s situation is different, but we are paying and we are hiring we just can’t find people committed to doing the work. So yes there may be a few people who are really comfortable in a job who aren’t interested, but everyday in the news we hear about high unemployment rates. Those are people willing and actively searching for jobs. I think that the economy has shown that corporations aren’t the surefire thing they once were, and time and time again studies prove that small businesses are the job creators, yet with all this there is still a hiccup between supply and demand of labor. My husband and I have sacrificed our pay to make sure our employees are taken care of, then we just get taken advantage of instead while working twice as hard to compensate for what we can’t find employee wise. Its very frustrating.