Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/21

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Subject: [Leica] Economics off topic?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:38:33 -0400

It seems things are looking up.

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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:33:51 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Economics off topic?
> 
> As a small software company, we had a couple really terrible years, but
> things definitely improved in the last 6 months. I see similar general
> improving with a lot of our long term customers who are engineering
> contractors.
> 
> Over here in the Silicon Valley, it's funny weird: we know people who can
> easily command $100K+ job any moment they choose to leave their current 
> job,
> but we also know a number of long term unemployed and are rapidly becoming
> unemployable. These are the same people that would have commanded $100K+
> jobs easily 6 years ago.
> 
> I hope your economic situation will improve as well.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Economics and image making go together like love and marriage.
>> Sebasti?o Salgato and Erwin Puts both huge influences on my highlight
>> separation both got their start as in the Economics racket.
>> 
>> The headlines in the past two days is:
>> "The recession is over" big news you would think if people are buying it.
>> - the press is buying it as they are plugging it.
>> Though its not adding up to me as I think people have to be back in the
>> stores buying and people have to have jobs to do it. Is that really
>> happening? If so great but I'm doubting it.
>> 
>> I'm just glad they have the press behind them. Mind over matter.
>> 
>> 
> 
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