Here is a contradiction of terms to consider – job security. The very phrase is a misnomer, a mutually exclusive play on words. If you have one, you cannot have the other. It’s as simple as that.
During the last week in April of 2009, more than 600,000 people filed unemployment claims in their state unemployment offices. The good news about that number is that it represents a reduction from prior weeks. But the implication is sobering – 600,000 people per week is almost 3,000,000 people per month who are losing their jobs. For the most part, these people probably all felt as recently as a year ago that their jobs were secure. The unfortunate reality however is this – if you work for company, or for another person, your job is not secure. The only true form of employment security is self-employment.
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Here is an interesting tidbit that was recently reported by the Wall Street Journal. The Internet uses a system of identifying every computer that connects to it. Each Internet access point is labeled with an Internet Protocol (IP) address that is a unique combination of four sets of numbers from 0 to 255. This scheme yields 4.3 billion possible combinations meaning that it contains 4.3 billion Internet addresses. The problem is that we’re running out. Experts predict that by the year 2012, there’ll be no more Internet addresses available under the current scheme. This means that a new scheme will be invented but these same experts are predicting potential problems with the crossover.
