Comments on: Job Hunting is Expensive by Ed Tsyitee Jr. (Twitter @GreenChileAdict)

By: Virginia Nicols

Virginia Nicols — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:54:36 +0000

Dear Michele,

I’d been a month since I saw your last post. Have things improved? If not, I have a couple of questions. You mentioned your “job of 22 years that you loved.” What was it that you loved? How can you turn that into a book or a service to help someone else? At 62, the outlook for another job may not be great, but YOU are likely filled with ideas and valuable experience that many people would love to get access to! How to reinvent yourself as “expert consultant?”

By: Virginia Nicols

Virginia Nicols — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 05:43:05 +0000

I don’t want to make it even worse, but you haven’t mentioned the costs of training to get new or updated skills, the cost of networking luncheons (or even a networking-over-coffee meeting), and, of course, gas to get to these places. Yes, looking for work IS expensive. The best job search plan would lay out costs with a timeline so you could see how to prioritize, share, eliminate, etc.

By: Michele Paynter

Michele Paynter — Tue, 27 May 2014 18:56:52 +0000

Hi Ed,

Your recent post on the costliness of unemployed was so spot-on! I regrettably, at age (62), fall into the category of “long-term unemployed”. I was laid off, unexpectedly, from a job I loved for twenty two years. Within a short time, I received an adjunct teaching post at an area community college for one semester. I have been in constant search for re-employed for a little over a year.

I have survived, using practically all of my savings, and those monies are almost depleted. I have a college-bound daughter in another year, and I’m frantic with concern about keeping my head above water. Where might extra monies come from for those of us who are still in search for employment? What are our realistic options out there in a society, whose primary focus appears to be on youthfulness?

By: Carmen Neutral

Carmen Neutral — Thu, 22 May 2014 01:23:03 +0000

Great post. In Australia, it’s the same situation. We too are told – ad nauseum – how we can get free advice on applying for jobs at our nominated government job seeker service. It’s all terrific, however, there’s no such thing as a free lunch – so expecting to get expert advice from the employees running such places, can be like banging your head against a brick wall. However, at least we justify such persons holding onto their jobs – even if they appear clueless.