Rural US IT Jobs on the Rise

[Monster]

Slashdot ran a story today from Infoworld about how there's new IT jobs on the countryside in the US.

Struggling to find a job in IT in and around your home city or suburb? Consider a move to Jonesboro, Ark., Sebeka, Minn., or Macon, Mo. These locales might not jump out as being hotbeds of technology development or home to a large number of businesses or government agencies. But they are places where a growing number of technology workers are settling in order to find jobs in their field.

What I find weird about the whole thing is, they act as if only cities existed and the countryside would be some kind of curious place that they sometimes heard about, but never seen with their own eyes. That's outlandish to me, lol, but here in Germany, cities and countryside are often pretty close, so there's few city people here that haven't been to the countryside and vice versa.

 

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I dont know about those areas but Florida is steadily getting worse daily with our governments horrible policies. I mean I dont see a day where there isn't another business or warehouse out of business. I think its something like 18 days until the elections to start slowly turning around the horrible current policies of this government. Maybe then private industry and not government can start creating jobs in this country. I mean when there is more government jobs being created then private jobs their something horribly going wrong. Specially when it takes a average of four tax payers to pay for one government employer. And when we have a real unemployment rate at 19%. And its even higher when you count people who have part time jobs who used to have full time jobs because they cant find them and the ones who cant find jobs at all aren't counted anymore because there unemployment benefits have run out. So how are we supposed to pay for all the new government employees when its the private sector that creates the wealth? The bigger government gets the stupider it gets!

 

[Monster]

I dont know about those areas but Florida is steadily getting worse daily with our governments horrible policies. I mean I dont see a day where there isn't another business or warehouse out of business.

I've been to coastal Florida once, it's a nice place, sorry to hear it's going downhill.

And when we have a real unemployment rate at 19%. And its even higher when you count people who have part time jobs who used to have full time jobs because they cant find them and the ones who cant find jobs at all aren't counted anymore because there unemployment benefits have run out.

The situation in Europe is or has been similar after the banking crisis, and also, before (after the 2001 dot-com crash).

Here in Germany, the actual unemployment rate is estimated between 20-30%, offical numbers are pretty low, but that's creative bookkeeping, many people think.

But I don't think the government is responsible for unemployment; It's always businesses. It's often hiring policies, funding problems, mismanagement that's the cause of these problems. But the government cannot create jobs, only businesses can.

Often companies complain "there ain't any qualified people on the job market", but in fact, the people they're looking for are unemployed. Often, it's only the fault of some dumb recruiter who cannot tell apples from bulldozers.