Another magazine bites the dust, sadly one that I enjoyed quite a bit and have an active subscription to. Companies are pulling back, some are scaling down, some are outright changing their business models.
Yes, the economy sucks. Some of the largest and most respected companies will not see 2009. There is a good statistical probability that you won’t have a job in 2009.
However, this is a natural progression of business and life. Out with the old, in with the new. If you can’t make money doing what you used to, you find something new to make money at.
Look at it this way: Most of us were lucky to have been able to learn how to run a business at a benefit of our technical skills that kept the demand pent up – and we took that advantage to grow and scale and do more – and that is why so many are now thriving while the rest of the population is struggling at best or outright dying at worst. If you have the time to sit around and think “I wish someone could help me figure out how to run my business during the downturn” then it’s probably too late already.
That’s business folks, survival of the fittest. You can’t get angry at the market demand, all you can do is be savvy enough (and opportunistic enough) to seize the opportunity and make something out of it.
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