My friend Austin Chu and his brother have made a documentary based on their six-month journey throughout the United States looking to find the human face of the Great Recession. That’s the same recession, by the way, that led to Austin being laid off in 2008, prompting him to hit the road with his camera.
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Two-hundred and ninety-seven long days after he lost his aviation-tech job at San Jose’s airport, Kris Rowberry is finally finding salvation.
When he starts his new job on Monday moving and tracking supplies throughout Stanford University’s medical school, hospitals and clinics, the 25-year-old San Jose resident will be
the first of the three Pink Slip 2.0 participants followed by the Mercury News the past year to have escaped the jaws of joblessness.
And all it took, besides those never-ending days, was two reams of resume paper, lots of cold-calling, numerous dead-ends, and way too many sleepless nights.
“”I don’t think it’s hit me yet,” Rowberry said Tuesday. “”After nine-and-a-half months of looking, I’m a little dazed. It’s like, is this really happening?” Read the rest of this entry »
Kris updated me this morning on the first of his two interviews. Still up in the air: Read the rest of this entry »
It has been more than a year, and oru three Pink Slip folks are still hanging out there - jobless, pretty much interviewless, trying to network and work the online job boards, but growing tired and frustrated. This Sunday in the Merc, you can catch up with Kris, Roopa and Elise, see how they’re faring, each in his/her own way, and then read about the larger problem of long-term unemployment now impacting millions of jobless Americans. We hope you find the installment, and Dai Sugano’s powerful photos, of interest.
I was bored with my time after the long cold call out to Walnut Creek for Wing and a Prayer, Inc. (Mr. Ellison) and coming home on BART, so I whipped out the ol’ notebook and started writing down some notes. To put it all in perspective… Read the rest of this entry »
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Apparently, my second Pink Slip 2.0 installment generated a bit of heat among our participants. Here’s a bit of their provocative exchange, which I think shows the different styles different job-hunters are taking out there: Read the rest of this entry »
Musings from our Pink Slip 2.0 guy, laid-off aviation worker Kris Rowberry: Read the rest of this entry »
I’ll be away from the office - and the blog - starting Thursday, April 2, and returning Monday, April 20. Feel free to leave your thoughts in my absence. And if you’d like to reach any of our three participants, they’ll be happy to get your emails: Read the rest of this entry »
Roopa is tapping into the outlacement service provided by her old company. Elise had another promising job interview today. And Kris has been contacted by a jet-charter company interested in seeing his resume. Read the rest of this entry »
My, but we have some angry people out there. In response to our debut in Sunday’s paper, dozens of folks weighed in on the plight of our three laid-off workers. Some were sympathetic. But not all. Read the rest of this entry »
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