With more than 30 years on the front line of daily American journalism, I'm currently a staff writer with the San Jose Mercury News, covering Apple and writing people-centric business stories from Silicon Valley.
What job-hunters do when they’re not job-hunting
This just in from Kris, poor increasingly hopeless Kris:
Got this in the ‘ol inbox – figured it was an interesting take into what I”m working with right now. So I’ve been on a few dates as of late, I was hoping it would give me something to distract me from the pain of job hunting, which at this point has moved to the “hopelessness” stage
Here’s the tale of the tape -
“I want to be honest, and the fact that you still live with you’re parents was a little bit of a turn off, despite the fact that I know it can be a necessity in these economic times without a job, sorry.”
Better off without, right?
With more than 30 years on the front line of daily American journalism, I'm currently a staff writer with the San Jose Mercury News, covering Apple and writing people-centric business stories from Silicon Valley.
3 comments
Daniel
The New York Public Library has many good seminars for Job Hunting. I also happened to know that this guys is doing one of their programs this summer. He has a couple interesting YouTube clips on his channel. Very interesting… “I Just Got Laid Off.” – Self Recruiter® Tip: Suffering After a Layoff
Jun 8, 2009
Netizen
Make sacrifices now, like living with your parents, to build a solid foundation for your future life with your own home. Reaching your life’s dreams starts by surviving this economic catastrophe. If you were on a plane that crashed in a remote wilderness area, as an analogy, you might think about dating, your dream home, travel… but these dreams propel you to survive now, and make it out of this remote wilderness alive. You’re too busy surviving so as to be alive for the future to commiserate about lacking the ability to socialize with others, live in a comfortable home, travel, and so forth. You are in a life threatening disaster and your one goal must be to make it out alive, so as to live all the sunny days for the rest of your life.
Jun 10, 2009
Ann
What goes around comes around, that girl may get laidoff one day too and let’s see how she feels when men dump her b/c she has no job. Not every man believes in rescue the damsel in distress!
Jun 10, 2009