Comment 37540

By d.knox (registered) | Posted January 28, 2010 at 13:14:42

You didn't mention it specifically in your article, but I think we all understand that the "best place to raise a child" ballyhoo is just another outcome of the poverty industry in Hamilton and really applies more to people who barely eke out a living et still decide to have children. I recognize that you are using it as a rhetorical seque into a question about employment, so I'll respond to that point instead.

Asking if there are any opportunities in Hamilton versus asking if there any good jobs are somewhat different questions.

Opportunities implies a lack of impediment. I think we have that. God, if anyone actually shows up with a great idea, we are pretty quick to line up in support. Opportunities imply that you've got an idea you'd like to develop and wonder if we have the resources as a city to support you. Yup.

Jobs imply that you've got some credentials and you'd like some money for them. A fair enough expectation, but not an opportunity. Jobs imply that someone else had the idea and took a risk and developed it and are now able to expand and provide employment (or we just got another social services transfer and need some administrative staff).

If you are just looking for a job, Hamilton might not be the best place for you right now, even though it's a great place to live and raise kids. It seems to me that the legal profession almost requires other people to seize the opportunities and create the jobs. Are you different?

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