A few weeks back, one of my favorite writers and bloggers lost his job. I asked him to write about his jobseeking efforts–this is his first post:
GL: I’ve been spending most of my time job hunting rather than writing about job hunting. But now that my first big push has come and gone without a job offer and I become immobilized by hopelessness and despair, I may find more time to write. There’s always a bright side!
5 Sep 2007 / PE
The California Employment Development Department — aka the unemployment office — scheduled a meeting for me this morning at the Orange County One-Stop job center.I thought it was going to be a one-on-one meeting to discuss appropriate employment opportunities for someone with my outstanding qualifications as a technologist.Instead, I found myself placed in a room full of misfits and losers, none in professional attire, and many of them dressed for a day at the beach — shorts, sandals, Hooters T-shirts — while we listened to a presentation on how to make $50,000 a year selling cars.(â€Sounds pretty good,†my son says, and for someone with a junior high school education like him, it probably is.)
In the course of the meeting, three people asked to borrow my pen because they didn’t think to bring one.
Of course, I was wearing a shirt and tie, so I could very easily carry a pen in my shirt pocket. If I’d been wearing a Hooters T-shirt, I wouldn’t have been able to do that . . .
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I am not much of a betting man, and I don’t sell used cars—-but I have $10 that says this guy will be a winner before the years end.
Mike, I agree. If you want to read some good writing, check out his blog.
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