Jenny Liles: Edison: Econonmy inspiring innovation?

3. September 2010 by student.

In a society where lay-offs are at an all time high, and jobs are hard to come by, people are looking for other means to pay the bills.  According to an article from, www.Mlive.com, a Michigan news sight, they state, “The bad economy is driving more workers in Michigan to start their own companies.”  I started looking around our local areas, and began noticing more little self-set-up shops.  People selling smoked mullet under a tent in San Carlos Park, or watermelons out of truck beds in Lehigh Acres. There are people, like my sister, attempting to start up their own business. After being laid off from her previous job, she started her own P.R. and Marketing company. It made me smile to see people who weren’t going to go down without giving it everything they had.  We tend to be so quick to just blame our external circumstances for getting us down; but it is those people who stand up, despite their situation, and decide to overcome it, that really make a difference. I also began to think that perhaps our current economic state is helping inspire people to be innovated and not rely so heavily on our big corporations. Indeed, resources are hard to come, especially for the little guy, however, I can’t help but to think that it might be a step in the right direction.  One thing is for certain, I’ll be attempting to support those little local businesses before I jump to the big superstores.  

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