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I think my post was taken the wrong way. I took the article to say "look at this person, he can't find a job for 14 years, despite all these amazing qualificat
by justin_vanw 15y ago
I think my post was taken the wrong way.
I took the article to say "look at this person, he can't find a job for 14 years, despite all these amazing qualifications".
I have a suspicion that there is more to the story, because I find it implausible that a hardworking competent person would could go that long without finding any work. Add to that the description of him as 'homeless and living at a shelter'. So he can't even find work that he is overqualified for? An office 'tech guy' will get somewhere around $50k in Boston, to install printers and do basic desktop support. People just out of highschool get that job all the time.
So, how did he end up homeless? There is obviously much more to the story that the article completely omits. And that is my criticism, it's misleading to only mention all his good points and use his story as a vehicle to indict our whole economic system.
I don't feel avarice for this gentleman, but I don't feel appalled that he can't find a job, because I believe the story is making several lies of omission.
- michaelchisari 15y agoSo he can't even find work that he is overqualified for? I hear this a lot, but it's not that simple. McDonalds hiring day got an order of magnitude more job applicants than it's available positions. Whenever unskilled or semi-skilled positions are open, they get flooded with applications, and someone with three degrees is simply not going to be hired, for plenty of reasons. From the article, though, he's only been out of work since November. Any number of economic factors could have led to his becoming homeless since then.