🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1177520340.303409.73630@u32g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
 Richard Fangnail <richardfangnail@excite.com> wrote:

> I had a good job as a tech writer but got laid off in 2001.  Foolishly
> I did very little to find employment until 2005.  I basically took
> classes and lived off savings and my folks.  I went to work as a temp
> in 2005-6 but that has dried up.
> 
> You know the main problem?  When asked for references, I have nothing
> recent.  And on my resume, people always ask why I haven't worked for
> so long.  I should have started working as a temp right away, in 2001.

No, the main problem is that you appear to be shiftless.  No person
of character or quality mooches off of their parents for 5 years.

> What can I do?  I don't know very many people because that's my
> nature.  My tech skills are way behind the times and I can only do so
> much to catch up.  Plus, learning the skills isn't the same as having
> a job using the skills.

I'd suggest lying, but you seem to shiftless to even do that.

If you need a job, take something that is well under what you
are shooting for, stay a while, and use that to build up your
resume.  There has to be someone out there desparate enough
to hire you over some recent college grad.

> Very depressing - and I have enough money to live but just barely.

Then why work?  Move some place that is far cheaper to live,
and live life off the grid and under the radar.

-john-

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