Living in a bubble? Your house isn’t!

If you live in America, and pay attention to any domestic news, you know the economy is in a wreck. Tonight, my cardio entertainment at the gym was a news report showing lines of unemployed professionals with hopes at a career field in NY City. The reality of the housing market, retail industry, and jobs is crushing. Yet, there are bubbles of hope still available.

Social Media
Social media is an enormous bubble of hope and dreams yet to be filled. There is an enormous opportunity for people to invent, develop, and deploy web based networks and social media consulting. It’s a growing field and very much left open for bids. Social media today is the California Gold Rush. Many pour hopes and dreams to make it big, the smart ones will build infrastructures around the crowd of people.

Expatriates
Another bubble to immerse yourself in, is to leave the US completely. Take a job overseas and ignore everything going on back home. Focus on international news or career development, but forget the housing crisis or skyrocketing unemployment rates…it doesn’t effect you a million miles away.

I am a huge believer in bubbles. One, especially entrepreneurs, need to have bubble of reinforcement, belief, and creativity to foster the energy to move forward. I don’t believe in LIVING in a bubble. The bubble serves as an fuel replacement when you are beat down and want to give up. It is not a place to discard reality completely.

I have found there are people who are living 24/7 in bubbles. The are ignoring the housing market, unemployment rates, bank failures, rising interest rates, and skyrocketing cost of groceries. They are living outside of reality. These people are most likely secure in their job, for now. Living in the soft bubble of hope and dreams, with no concern of others can lead to devastation. Choosing to ignore the housing crisis to transfer locations, leaving a house. Spending more then you make on gas guzzling vehicles, recreation, and cutting back retirement savings to pay for it.

Its the people who live in the bubbles 24/7 that scare me. For its the same people who thought variable interest rate loan would benefit RIGHT NOW, and never think about the future. Where are they now? Foreclosed, unemployed, and hurting. Americans, broad and home, need to get back to living to the basics. Get out of the bubble at the end of the day and wake up to reality. Life will not bend to you, YOU have to bend to it.