While there is no doubt the supply of jobs is at an all time low, there are still jobs out there. If you are more accustomed to a white collar role than it will be a challenge for you, to say the least. Why? A great deal of the available jobs in job pool are blue collar jobs or even more so - green collar jobs. Some say the rise of blue/green collar jobs is due to the economic stimulus package out of Washington. Others say the blue/green collar job rise is due to what jobs can and can't be outsourced. Hummh. Most likely both elements are contributing to the rise. On the other hand, there seems to be little mention of the fact that the middle class is an endangered species, considering so many white collar jobs have been wiped out. While there are quite a few blue and green collar jobs that can offset the white collar job losses with decent salaries ranging from $35,000 - $75,000, there just aren't enough job openings - white, green or blue - to go around. Also, one other thing to keep in mind - what about the student loan debt for those that went the white collar track. Just how do you repay $50K, $75K, $100K in student loans on a $35K annual salary or a salary even less than that. The math just doesn't compute. Looks like the little guy get the - shaft, with white collar jobs turing to blue collar jobs.

For many job seekers around the country, the job market situation is looking more and more like dire straits. So just where are the jobs? Well relatively speaking there aren't that many. With approximately 2.5 million job openings and well over 10 million job seekers, that doesn't fair well if you are the job seeker. On the other hand, if you are willing to accept 20 below freezing winters and all the snow ball fun, North Dakota has job openings right now. The jest of it is -

• North Dakota has an economic surplus whereas most states have a deficit
• North Dakota's unemployment rate is under 5%
• North Dakota has about 9,000 job openings available now with heavy coverage in telecommunications and energy
• It's cold as Christmas every day of the winter but it beats sleeping in the car in Miami

So if you are open to relocation, beat the mad rush - check out North Dakota jobs now. Sure it's not Miami, but it beats sleeping in the car waiting for a turnaround in your area.

As you know, the buzz continues about -  rebound this, rebound that. Well if you like reading and believing propaganda than you probably are reading that stuff and not reading this blog. As for everyone else...just what evidence is there of a turnaround? All but 4 out of 52 states have either posted an increase in job losses or job cuts combined with higher than average unemployment rates. If you live on the west coast, then you know - many of those states including California, Nevada and Oregon have double digit unemployment rates.

As for the south, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Arkansas to name a few, are at their highest unemployment rates seen in well over two and a half decades - 25 years folks. So just how exactly does this translate to a turnaround? Wake up people. Its called deflection - deflecting your attention elsewhere versus looking at the facts. You can thank your mainstream news source for that. The fact of the matter is that, it is still a while to go before any significant improvement is made with job growth. This of course doesn't short circuit the "onesies" and "twosies" along the way. The problem is when nearly 350,000 people loose their jobs, in a single month, and that is reported as "good". At the same time those 350,000 people who lost their jobs are added to the labor pool of over 6.7 million folks who already don't have a job. So job market rebound or wishful thinking? Sounds like wishful thinging to me...