Super (Unemployment) Bowl

Updated on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 12:22PM by Andrew G. Rosen

This weekend there will be about 20 people at Jobacle HQ watching the Super Bowl.  We'll all be chowing down on chicken wings and pulled pork sliders, shushing each other as the first commercials start to play.

At an average cost of $2.6M for 30 seconds, everyone from  Anheuser-Busch to Walt Disney will be jockeying for our attention.

We'll all muse over the cost of these ads, a figure, which quite honestly, is incomprehensible to me and my middle class friends.

The out-of-work construction worker will laugh; the unemployed teacher might chuckle.  And my friend's dad, who's worked in a union for 37 years, will be sipping beers for the first time as a member of the pink-slip brigade.

With 1 out of every 10 Americans unemployed, am I the only one sick over the Super Bowl ad orgy?

Let's do some quickie math.

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Apple iPad Trumps Obama

The world is more focused on the iPad, the latest gadget from Apple, then they are intent on watching President Barack Obama's State of the Union address tonight.

Perhaps that's part of the reason our economy is where it is.  Our heads are up our asses.

We need new jobs.  Better benefits.  Is there an app for that?

The president is expected to talk about his push for tax credits for new hiring, an incentive that will hopefully grab the attention of American employers.  Also on the agenda is a requirement that companies allow workers save automatically for retirement.

Watch the speech live at Whitehouse.gov and get your drink on!

P.S. - iPad is such a crummy name.  Sounds like a digital tampon.

America's 8 "Most-Demanding Jobs"

Our pals at CareerCast have released the following...

What do firefighters, surgeons and senior corporate executives have in common? More than you may think. They are among the nation’s most demanding jobs, according to a new CareerCast.com study.

While firefighter reigns supreme as the most all-around demanding job, surgeon and senior corporate executive rank second and third, followed by police officer. Considering that firefighters regularly work long hours in hazardous, life-threatening situations and have the most physical demands of any of our top jobs, their landslide first place finish is no surprise, but police officers often endure the same sort of demands yet they ranked fourth. What gives? While police officers ranked higher for the physical demands of their job, their average work week and stress scores were considerably lower than that of a surgeon or a senior corporate executive.

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