The Beginings

I think that I can speak for everyone who has tried to get a job recently that it is almost impossible.

Before the recession I had a fairly good job, but I wasn't fully satisfied with my potential. I decided to return to college. To get that I took a large demotion and changed to part time. I decided to pursue an accounting degree (to me it just seemed like a really versatile business degree.) With one year to go, and the recession in full swing, the company I was working for decided to make the first round of layoffs. On the list for termination was every part-time employee. I had been with the company for 3 years but it was all gone in a day.

I used my savings to finish college. I refused to accept un-employment on the principal that it was for people who needed it. (I don't regret that decision.) I finished with a 3.5 something GPA, and proceeded to look for work. I looked everywhere, and for all sorts of jobs. Most of the time they wouldn't even email me to let me know that I wasn't hired.  From graduation, I looked for work for over a year. I finally got hired as a delivery driver for a home improvement warehouse. I stayed there for a year before I was offered a partnership in my parents house-rental business.

I took this new job with much joy. I could set my own hours and do the work that I find very fulfilling, Carpentry.

While this new job has been my haven in the storm that his enveloped this nation, I couldn't stop thinking about how bad it was for everyone else, because my wife was still looking for a good place to work. There is not a single cause that has brought us to our current state. There is not a single person to point at and blame. However, no one will argue that the system is not broken.

To this claim, I am calling out to my brothers, my fellow countrymen/women. Now more than ever we need to take pride in this nation. We need to support our neighbors and brothers and sisters. We need work; our nation needs work. More specifically, we need good jobs. We don't need to be telemarketers or fast food workers, we need high pay and benefits. We need manufacturing jobs. I've worked in manufacturing, to be honest I didn't like it when I worked there, but it was the best paying place to work in the region.

To be a great nation again, we have to make goods and sell them to the world. Brothers and sisters, we cannot compete with China on price, but dollar for dollar, we can make some of the best goods on the market here. We can compete on quality.

This blog will be a testament to either the right way to market the USA, or a failure to communicate my purpose.

My wife and I are designing shirts that are manufactured and printed here in the USA. They are going to be high-quality shirts at a reasonable price, that will help put Americans to work.

The theme will be patriotic, in a contemporary fashion. That is to say, we are going to try to make it "cool" to be American again. The hope is that people will once again take pride in this country.

In essence, I am declaring war on companies who claim to be patriotic but import everything from China.