Comments on: The Do-It-Yourself Recovery. Is self-employment propping up the economy?

By: JC

JC — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:23:41 +0000

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buy load balancing router — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:58:51 +0000

Small businesses are the growth engine in any economy, even though huge corporations receive much more media attention when they announce new jobs. With that said, it really shouldn’t be surprising that self-employed people are propping up the economy.

However, as has been seen in the past, when government spending is pulled back on major programs and departments are scaled down in order to address national debt, self-employed service providers (such as construction contractors) are often hit hardest, which means the economic engines splutters to a halt.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:02:24 +0000

It is the same in the UK, 100s of thousands have lost thier jobs and become self employed, so how many will fail over the next couple of years? This is a great place for job in human resources HR Jobs, vacancies and positions in the UK, Part of the One Job Group

By: Russell Davison

Russell Davison — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:46:09 +0000

Hello ffn,

Thanks for the thought-provoking article. I’m also impressed with the quality and quantity of comments. My own thought is that, over the last 15 years, we should all consider ourselves to be either ‘self-employed’ or NOT self-employed. This is opposed to being ‘employed’ or NOT employed by a corporation.

My reason for this subtle new way of thinking is that the main reason why anybody resorts to working for someone else is for job security. And that doesn’t exist anymore. Why else would any human endure many of their waking hours in an 8 foot by 8 foot confined area?

So, as there is no corporate job security, then we should only consider corporate non self-employment as a transient between self-employment gigs. Maybe if this new way of thinking caught on then corporations would start to be more respectful of the contribution made by effective employees.

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Its about time people started to take matters into there own hands, having a job now leaves you with such an uncerten futur.

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By: Matthias Wayland

Matthias Wayland — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:09:57 +0000

I wonder if the Unemployment Office is hiring? I’ve already tried everywhere else.

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henrylow — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:31:00 +0000

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By: Hello Kitty store

Hello Kitty store — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:06:45 +0000

It means they won in the end by having taken the money and run – and keeping it from those doing real work.