Web Directions

And now we play the waiting game

• In: Blog
• By:Maxine
• January 14, 2009
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Interesting arti­cle over at Web Worker Daily talk­ing about the impact of the reces­sion, at least from the US point of view.

Got me think­ing about how we might get a han­dle on what is hap­pen­ing here. I drag myself out of bed every morn­ing to the depress­ing news from Radio National, to a world that in real­ity seems to be mark­ing time and wait­ing for some­thing to hap­pen. I’m doing this myself: when­ever some­one asks me whether Web Directions has been affected, I can only really say that we won’t know until we start try­ing to sell tick­ets for upcom­ing Australian events.

I’ve heard of the odd redun­dancy among the wide cir­cle of “peo­ple I know”, but most of us would still appear to be liv­ing the good life, plan­ning over­seas trips and so on. Business as usual. The obvi­ous sec­tors not to be work­ing in at the moment are bank­ing, min­ing and tourism, but, even within these, I won­der who the peo­ple are who are actu­ally being laid off.

At least accord­ing to some research, online isn’t a bad place to be at the moment. Fingers crossed I guess.

What’s hap­pen­ing in your lit­tle part of the world?

Ah, the wait­ing game sucks. Let’s play Hungry-​​Hungry-​​Hippos!

5 responses to “And now we play the waiting game”:

1. • By:Cameron Adams
   • January 14th, 2009
   

   Buzz the blue hippo!

2. • By:Ben Boyle
   • January 14th, 2009
   

   This January seems quite a bit busier than past years. Not a bad time to be a pub­lic ser­vant web peep maybe.

3. • By:Elton Lester
   • January 15th, 2009
   

   Agree with Ben. Work in infra­struc­ture area and the Aust govt is throw­ing money into it as part of it’s reces­sion dodg­ing strategies.

   All we need in Queensland right now is for an elec­tion to be called to bring every­thing to a scream­ing halt.

4. • By:Gary Barber
   • January 15th, 2009
   

   WA econ­omy is min­ing and tourism + govt.., humm that doesn’t sound good does it.

5. • By:john Allsopp
   • January 20th, 2009
   

   Interestingly, we seem to be get­ting a rea­son­ably steady stream of jobs posted at our jobs site, here and else­where in the world.

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