i got my exam results yesterday. and i got them all. yippee. onwards and upwards to third year. now if i can just find a new job. dum de dum.

yesterday we had a lovely man come to visit us to tell us that come the end of the year we will have no jobs. in a few months time, i will be unemployed. the reason i am going to be unemployed is that labour is cheaper on the indian sub-continent. this is something everyone knows, but it is hard to swallow all the same. i am going to be a statistic. the statistic being “number of jobs lost in the U.S. and Europe to cheaper labour in India”.

at lunchtime, a colleague told me that there are 1,000,000 jobs lost every year in the states to india. that can’t be right surely. my sense of scale and proportion doesn’t work very well when talking about millions. for me a million is a third of ireland’s population. a third of ireland unemployed every year? gulp! not because the work doesn’t need to be done, rather because the work is cheaper somewhere else.

when i was in secondary school, i did the junior cert course. i was the frist year to do this course. the curriculum changed in all subjects. geography was a subject that switched from being about naming every mountain range, river, headland etc in ireland to learning about “social geography”. this is a tangent i know but the point of it was that in our new social geography class we were warned about the evils of multinational corporations. we were warned that multinationals up root and go where the labour is cheap. that they couldn’t be trusted no matter how much money the IDA or our government threw at them to get them to settle in ireland.

i should have listened to my geography teacher is the moral of my story!

i haven’t been very good at blogging lately. that is because after only three entries i grew a bit bored with it. what fantastic staying power and attention to detail i am possessed of.

this week, i am wondering what i will do regarding employment because we are all waiting to hear when we are going to be made redundant. everyone here is taking it for granted that we will be.

on a happier note, i am off to Jamie Knox’s this weekend for a WOWI trip. I plan to have fun, relax, enjoy myself and forget about the work situation.

i do think that it is incredible, that 100,000+ redundanices later my esteemed employer and the people in charge can’t figure out a way to get us back to profitablity. they blame market conditions. i am sure that when everyone bar the board are gone they will still not be back to profitability. so maybe they should just go now. rant rant rant.