FastCompany.com has posted an article on how the current crisis might affect you career (seen on Yahoo! Finance). It’s a mostly useless article except for the Mitchell Feldman’s comment in the third paragraph: “the real answer is that all employees are vulnerable right now.”

Which is about like saying that they have no idea.
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I have sat on my remarks about the current financial crisis for several weeks now. I’m taking this week to address it as it pertains to your career.

I’m not an expert in some of the topics I will discuss. You need to correct me where I have facts wrong. Also, I will be speculating on what is likely to happen. That means that I am doing no more than making a guess. These guesses will focus on what you might need to do for your career.

Several of you have already contacted me. Because you have no debt and no depreciating assets, you are in a better condition than others who are held captive by their current financial position. Who knew that the years of underemployment that has prevented you from enjoying “the good life” would turn out to be useful?