On "My family is eating stir-fried dandelions out of yards to keep from starving."
@Moff Hover your pointer over the image at the top of the article. The question is in all caps and showed up in my RSS feed.
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@Niko Bellic Dude, last post before I bail. You don't know anything about my politics, intellectual interests or emotional maturity. I only say this because you are missing the boat.
Like I said before: I feel bad for the dude. There is a lot of stuff the government, business and society could be doing differently to make it easier for more people to work.
But that has little to do with what individuals should be doing to increase their chances of getting hired. Being fat, whining about unemployment online and artificially limiting employment options is counter productive.
Being more agressive, applying to more jobs, getting in shape and learning new skills is productive.
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@Riff Randell Strong point. Looks like this guy is not a total bum.
Still seems like he's saying the same thing as me:
"My tips to other people are to take a long, hard look at what you’ve been doing and if it is in a declining career path, study what careers are up and coming and do what you can to retrain into them."
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@Niko Bellic Yeah, because there are 50 million Americans competing for one job right now. Good point.
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@Moff and others-
9.2% unemployment sucks and hurts lots of people. Obviously, there is room for the government, business and society to make changes to reduce that rate.
Maybe it's important politically for people to publish stories about how hard unemployment is. But it's my impression that everyone already gets that. Or at least, these stories are not going to change anyone's mind.
As far as how tumblr and The Awl works. Sorry for playing along and responding to your blog's question: Would you hire him?
Still got to say - probably not. 99% of employers tossed his resume in the trash without calling him. He lacks the initiative or people skills required to follow up and get them to take a second look. He isn't looking in other fields. He only sends out two resumes a week knowing there is a 99% chance he won't even get a call back. He is fat and ugly.
Most important, he thinks that his bad feelings about being unemployed should be therapeutically dealt with by complaining about how hard his lot is in a public forum. That's classic self-obsessed and lazy behavior. Especially for a white man with degrees.
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@ontologicalpuppy Nah, I briefly mentioned it. The gym bit is what all of you are foucsing on. Including the bum, check the quotation above his picture.
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@Moff Yeah, duh. My privelege is inseperable from my economic success. I get that.
My problem is not that he is unemployed. It's that he decided that he should post a pic of himself with a story about how hard his life is on Yahoo! and the Awl.
"Might as well include "blames others," "wallows in failure" and "self-obsessed" under the skills section of his resume."
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@winchesterwolcott Thinking getting inshape is impossible for unemployed people almost certainly correlates with not being able to get a job.
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@Bettytron If only.
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