Hundreds of applicants lined up early Monday morning at the Target store in Clairemont for a chance to land a seasonal job.

Simon Judge, a laid-off engineer, said he is trying to make a tough transition.

“Well, you can swallow your pride … people would probably call it working for pennies, but I consider taking care of my family the most important thing,” Judge told 10News.

Thousands line up for jobs at Plainfield water bottler

Thousands of job seekers waited in long lines in the rain since this morning for a chance to work for one of the newest companies to settle in Plainfield's industrial and business parks.

Niagara Bottling Co. has been advertising a job fair to fill 37 openings for work in a new plant that will make plastic bottles and fill them with purified and specially formulated water.

And the DOW closing at above 10,000, the Cheap Labor Conservatives must think they have died and gone to heaven…

For the first time in more than 35 years, the U.S. military has met all of its annual recruiting goals, as hundreds of thousands of young people have enlisted despite the near-certainty that they will go to war.

The Pentagon, which made the announcement Tuesday, said the economic downturn and rising joblessness, as well as bonuses and other factors, had led more qualified youths to enlist.

The military has not seen such across-the-board successes since the all-volunteer force was established in 1973, after Congress ended the draft following the Vietnam War. In recent years, the military has often fallen short of some of its recruiting targets. The Army, in particular, has struggled to fill its ranks, admitting more high school dropouts, overweight youths and even felons.

Yet during the current budget year, which ended Sept. 30, recruiters met their targets in both numbers and quality for all components of active-duty and reserve forces.

“We delivered beyond anything the framers of the all-volunteer force would have anticipated,” Bill Carr, deputy undersecretary of defense for military personnel policy, said at a Pentagon news conference.

We must be having a surge of patriotism the likes we haven't seen since WWII…
Or the quality health care at a reasonable price …
Or else the real economy is truly in the crapper…

a) We could have the current stupid obscession with Twitter, Facebook, etc, during the earlier bubble.

b) Regarding that earlier bubble (I joked at the time to a friend that we ought to start a new mutual fund, called the “Icarus Fund”), back then, while many weren't necessarily preoccupied with working on, or for, Wall Street, there were plenty of people enamored of day trading. I guess there's a more glamorous and more remunerative role for some day traders, still as “real” traders on Wall Street itself.