How the US economic downturn is affecting me
I just got back from schooling this semester and I am now about to get back to freelance work again, after not working for almost 5 months. Before I went back to school I told my clients that I’d be open for any jobs and projects after the semester. I needed to recoup my resources.
Of course, that was BEFORE we actually felt the impact of the recession here. 5 months later, it’s as if somebody dropped a nuke and dead silence reigned in its wake. Suddenly emails weren’t getting replied to, job offers stopped coming in, and noticeably some US contacts on my YM list have gone gray and often offline. Understandably the crisis has gotten everyone in America on their toes and scrambling. Being based here in the Philippines, I can tell the outsourcing industry is facing a tough problem right now, especially if your clients are based in the US.
Read more about the US recession from a regular person’s point of view here.
