If there is one thing I'd tell him, talk more about your comp sci skills than the pity angle which I understand reporters love but it doesn't result in a job as

If there is one thing I'd tell him, talk more about your comp sci skills than the pity angle which I understand reporters love but it doesn't result in a job as much. This also made me think about different family cultures. In my immediate as well as extended family, you are almost EXPECTED to help a family member in this position. The downside to it is you have leecher families that don't work. The upside is I have to go back several generations on my family tree to find a family that is homeless and struggling. Having grown up in the US(I was born in India) I struggle every now and then about this idea of distributed wealth. It often means fewer vacations even if you are making a killing because you always have someone in your extended family who isn't as well off and needs your help. Longterm though there is no doubt I prefer this shared wealth model. If this guy was in our family he would not be homeless. I know this because at any given time we have a family who is in his position. The larger family helps and in most cases they rebound again and no longer need help. In my immediate family, we all agreed a while ago that any individual venture by my brothers will be equally owned by all three of us. My uncles have a similar agreement.