Back on the unemployment line

Hey folks,

Just a quick update to my (3) loyal followers. I think I may now have the shortest career in multi-media history! My gig with H3B Media has not worked out. Chalk it up to tough times in the economy. Businesses looking to expand right now absolutely need a plan, something we lacked on both sides of the Atlantic.

Publishing a Trade Magazine isn't a science and so Thinking Highways found it easy, if hard work, to survive in the thriving, pre-meltdown economy. With shrinking advertising budgets and government funding now being directed to 'shovel-ready' projects, many transportation firms have not seen traditional advertising as a necessary expenditure. I'm sure, well, I know having talked to a number of them, that they are also nervous about the length of time that it may take for us to recover from the current economic crisis. Who can blame them either.

President Obama is being quite bleak about the future right now and to be sure, there are significant fundamental problems in the American economy that cannot be fixed overnight. With a health-care cost driven bankruptcy every 30 seconds in the US, these are not easy problems, nor is there consensus on how to best operate on the patient. Economists like Paul Krugman are urging more action while Republicans seem to want only to further deplete government resources with Tax Cuts and to allow natural market corrections by letting banks fail.

I do have two great opportunities right now and will hopefully have my pick of them by week's end.

So keep posted. I will not promise to blog more but will say that since I'm not being paid to work for anyone right now and have two good possibilities, I'm going to be spending quite a bit of time in front of my computer in the short-term.