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Originally Posted by campbellcj

FWIW I am buried in business (nearly doubled revs over last year) and having trouble filling positions I've had open for more than year. These are $75-100K IT sector desk jobs and there is nobody qualified on the market, it seems. My wife's business in a completely different industry -- heavily reliant upon discretionary consumer spending -- is also holding up just fine. Clearly there are some people hurting out there, but that is ALWAYS the case, and I think 80% of this latest wave is pure liberal media hype and election-year dirty pool.

I'm qualified . I just choose to try and make IT on my own. This year is better than last, y about 1.5x for me.