As the holiday season ushers in, "finding a job is a job" takes on new meaning. Finding a job is a job is nothing short of an understatement these days considering a six to one job applicant to job opening ratio coupled with holiday season part time hiring down from traditional levels. Unfortunately that's the hard reality that job seekers face just after Turkey Day.

Perhaps one of the few bright spots for job seekers this holiday is that the Feds did extend unemployment benefits earlier in the month to those still struggling to find work. While extending unemployment benefits was certainly a much needed lifeline for many job seekers, the million dollar question is "where are the jobs?" that were supposedly created by the massive Federal Stimulus Bill? The 640,000 jobs on record as either created or saved is somewhat old news now, yet the national unemployment rate continues to rise. The argument, of course, is that job growth or at least the job growth statistics tend to follow actual cash infusion into the economy. In effect, that is essentially telling job seekers to take job growth projections on "faith" and wait for several months later to learn if those projections were on target.

To top off the job market hope ticket parade, job seekers and consumers alike, are given the guilt trip for not spending their cash on Black Friday. Talk about a snow job. On one end, the average guy that's been out of work for six months or more can't even land a part time holiday job at Target, now becomes the "bad guy" for not spending cash to support an economy that basically leaves job seekers "hoping on hope." Unfortunately, hope doesn't pay the rent or put food on the table. So needless to say finding a job is a job truly takes on new meaning this holiday season as part time holiday jobs look skimpy and the job seeker gets the guilt trip for not spending cash in a one sided economy. Guess the Turkey Day fun is over and its back to the job search grind reality for job seekers.