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12,000 jobs slashed at Chrysler, as automotive sales fall

If you live in the Metro Detroit area, you saw this one coming for a while, but it always hurts harder when it arrives.

After a 16 year Chrysler career, I left Daimler Chrysler in 2000, not because I didn't like it. I loved the automobile company, loved the people and loved my job. I had four small children at home and could no longer keep everything together.

When there is news about Chrysler, I read it with a magnifying glass. Chrysler is like an old, kind uncle to me.

12,000 jobs are a lot of jobs. The new "privately held" Chrysler, LLC will be a smaller, leaner and more selective automaker than it was i n the past. Smaller and leaner correlate to more unemployment in Michigan.

If you are the entrepreneur type person - the layoff's and buyout's around here can look like golden opportunities. Here are a few that we heard good things about:

• Freelance Opportunities at GoFreelance
• Home Based Travel Business Startups at Global Travel
• Get a Doba Free Trial - Doba is particularily interesting to me and I have actually signed up for a free trial. It seems too good to be true. You sell items on eBay or your own eCommerce system (Yahoo! eCommerce is one of the best I've seen) and they drop-ship it for you.

Not really an entrepreneur - here are some places on the net to start posting your resume (just in case)

• Free Job Seeker Tools at Beyond
• Jobs at Monster - IT, Engineering... etc

And here is my plug: http://michiganbusiness.jobamatic.com/a/jbb/find-jobs Check out the absolutely free employment board - right here at the Michigan Business Directory. Yes, we said FREE employment board.

Best of luck to everyone - if you know of something that can help our displaced visitors with finding new jobs, please post a comment!

Labels: Chrysler Downsizes, Michigan Jobs