DirtCarshr wrote:

Anyone for persecuting strangers?

;-)


Tis the season to work retail... I've been looking for work since
June, apparently my career changed while I wasn't looking and now I
need to have an Engineering background writing C++ code, and also
Marketing qualifications... I now need a bachelor's degree in things
that didn't even exist when I was in school, in order to do the job I
used to have before they shut the company down.
They won't hire me at the carwash because I don't speak Spanish and
they say I won't stick around, that I'll leave as soon as a better
jobs shows up - so lack committment to their enterprise. Same thing
with the gardening. I've worked landscaping and gardening before, but
now it's no habla Espanol and no committment. The local McDonalds
says that I'm overqualified, the wrong demographic, and won't stick
around, (I think it's because I'm too middle-aged), and since I've
never worked Retail they don't trust me behind the cash-register at
Macy's. Well it's not so much the lack of experience as that more
17-20 year olds have much more retail experience and are the preferred
employees.
I think boats are neat but the guys running the training school at the
Harbor want me to pay for lessons first before I crew any of their
boats, and can't I just come up with the $1800 for a lesson-plan and
$1295 per year club-membership? I could have if I had a job. Besides
business is slow and they don't have any job-openings either.

:-)

-keith
mtn. view
^^^^^^^^^
Ask around over at Sequoia Yacht Club on the weekend
(http://www.sequoiayc.org/) -- really nice folks and always willing to
help someone get started. It's an all volunteer club, so when you do
get employment the annual fee won't break the bank :-)