Times are tough all around.  We've had economic crashes like this before, but they've all left us railroad networks, robust military weapons, or even the 'internetz.'

This crash has left America jack and shit, and jack left town.  So time to write up the resume, finish your AA degree at the local community college, and apply to every job you can.  And God help you if you are in a specialized archaic line of work like real estate or human resources management.

So, with that all said why is this on a World of Warcraft guild page?  Check out the tail end of this article from May's Time magazine:

The Gen X managers who will be holding all this together will need to be adept at a few things that earlier generations, with their more hierarchical management styles and relative geographical insularity, never really had to learn. One of those is collaborative decision-making that might involve team members scattered around the world, from Beijing to Barcelona to Boston, whom the nominal leader of a given project may never have met in person. "By 2019, every leader will have to be culturally dexterous on a global scale," says Reid. "A big part of that is knowing how to motivate and reward people who are very different from yourself."

They don't teach that in B school — at least not yet. In fact, Rob Carter, chief information officer at FedEx, thinks the best training for anyone who wants to succeed in 10 years is the online game World of Warcraft. Carter says WoW, as its 10 million devotees worldwide call it, offers a peek into the workplace of the future. Each team faces a fast-paced, complicated series of obstacles called quests, and each player, via his online avatar, must contribute to resolving them or else lose his place on the team. The player who contributes most gets to lead the team — until someone else contributes more. The game, which many Gen Yers learned as teens, is intensely collaborative, constantly demanding and often surprising. "It takes exactly the same skill set people will need more of in the future to collaborate on work projects," says Carter. "The kids are already doing it." ~Anne Fisher

So that time you've logged into Warcraft may not be a miss.  I mean, you might not have the certificate to show your ability to manage a team of international professionals, but when you lead a raid of various classes, specs, and personalities you are doing just that.  Merl is a young man, but he runs 24 other able adults through complicated team excercises.  As does Hoje, Speddie, Moetle, Fabs, and many others in the guild.  Many of us have the skills to acquire excellent jobs that are complicated and responsible ...

So how the hell do you put 'raid leader' on a resume?