$15-20K/year FT position

There's lots better out there. I'm amazed how many of my former colleagues wound up with great jobs, be it teaching at a University or web design for a cruise ship company. One ex-colleague made a point to learn all he could about CCI when our company was making the pagination transformation 18 years ago. Went to Denmark on the company's dime to become a super user. Taught our employees how to use it. Started his own company helping other companies integrate CCI. And then sold his company to CCI. All from a former copy editor/page designer who worked the exact same job as me. He was just proactive about his career. I (and many others) weren't. That's on us and no one else.

 

Good for you, Coco.

Though I should point out that under some of the GOP candidates' tax proposals, you will have to declare the value of those sexual favors you perform for car dealers as miscellaneous income.

 

If you are really seriouos about another job, you need to network, meet people who are hiring or people who know people who are hiring or take some training for other skills.

And write a decent damn resume. People generally suck at resumes.

Focus on your skills and value, not the specifics of filing from a press box on deadline or paginating pages or editing that spelling-challenged columnist every day.

 

Actually, if I do labor for them, then they are under an obligation to compensate me. It's federal and state law.

 

That's about all it does. And that's all it's been, is beating the alternative at this point.

 

Then that's really all you can ask for until you can come up with another alternative.

 

Talk about a blinding glimpse of the obvious!

But I have to admit, I take a bit of pleasure in seeing someone else get the Baron treatment.

 

I did the training for other skills part. Got 2 interviews in total for entry-level jobs in that other skills field. Was told I had a tremendous background. Was also told I was one of several dozen being interviewed. Several dozen, whom, I would think, also had tremendous backgrounds.

 

I meant they're under no obligation to hire you in the first place.

And, you still haven't given an answer as to who is responsible for finding you a job you appreciate?

 

Just curious ... what were these "other skills"?

 

My responsibility to find the job. My responsibility to be productive enough for the company so they appreciate the profits. Company's responsibility to treat me well, both tangibly and intangibly, to make sure I appreciate the job.

Anything less, and it becomes a business relationship only. Like Draper in "Mad Men". That's what the money is for. That's how I treat it. Come in, do my work, leave. Get paid every two weeks. That's all.

 

A different field where I went back to school for a year.