Sunday, February 27, 2011

Reinventing Ourselves For The Good New Jobs

Programmers are bending themselves into grocery clerks going forward
So-called financial engineers should be snatching at secure jobs driving school buses
Web designers are strutting in their natty fast food uniforms
Physics graduates optimize sweeping patterns in their work as custodians

Shy mathematicians are re-inventing themselves as stockers down to Wal*Mart
Unneeded chemists are scheming to open up their own new brew pubs
Moping, unemployed newspaper writers futilely send their signal into the blogospheric void
Graying, downsized middle managers pass out identical resumes on every corner

Washed up autoworkers line up for full-time positions driving garbage trucks
Former roofers and framers look to re-invent themselves installing solar panels
Downcast Teamster container ship unloaders will become produce clerks, someday
With straight faces, liberal arts grads try to get hired on to redneck road-building crews

Quality assurance experts audit their own work cleaning toilets in convenience stores
Unemployed statisticians calculate their odds for success at professional blackjack
Burnt out, washed up teachers with no alternate careers shut down, but stay on
All those 45 and older are quickly cast aside and wordlessly encouraged just to die

Financial planners are now without the income streams needed to smother their own debt
Database administrators finally try to use their hands while studying to be paramedics
Laid off PR goddesses become consultants to other useless baggage trying to reinvent itself
Overextended real estate profiteers look for big scores in pyramid fat-burning scams

Unread resumes clog vast networks of pathetically over-eager former executives
Hapless retail attempts by entrepreneurial laid-off accountants die in record time
Ex-project leaders learn to live with being laughed at by fellow Home Depot stockers
Run down car salesmen start peddling reverse equity home scams to seniors

Cast off nannies make the long trek back to Guatemala without a dime of severance pay
Mestizo vaqueros in dusty baseball caps find no more labor and shuffle back towards home
Merged and downsized bankers cynically scheme to make it as credit counselors
Environmental activists try to get on with coal companies as public spokesmen

Moving firms reinvent themselves emptying abandoned, foreclosed McMansions
300 pencil-necked ex-loan originators apply for a single firefighting position
100000 returning war vets are laid off just as soon as permitted by federal law
Cute former cosmetic sales girls learn to turn a few tricks for rent and food

Stock brokers feverishly search the internet for another golden egg of greed
Soccer moms are forced to morph into gas clerks in oversized checkered shirts
Off-shored Customer Support personnel enjoy painting houses and mowing lawns
But, at last, those bottom-feeding military and priesthood recruiters gin up a few new bodies

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