Replies

Lets get something clear - any job is a good job.

When I first came to this country, having left a well-paid executive position at home (with human secretary !) my first job was waiting tables and cleaning the bathrooms. There is something to learn doing anything, and boy, did I learn a lot. This was no dead end, better things came my way, but anything useful you can do isn't something you should despise. Whenever I was looking for work I made sure to be employed somehow, however menial it was - once in assembly, several times as a contract technician - twice it turned out to be a step to exactly what I was looking for. Not for nothing did my grandmother recommend I learn carpentry, to have something to fall back on, no matter how high you rise, you can still fall. I didn't take her advice, but it seems wiser and wiser as the years pass.

Second point - I am proud of never having taken unemployment payments. I would rather clean bathrooms first.

Third point - There is lying and there is marketing. Learn to sell yourself with a simple, humble style, and write the resume without appearing to boast. It is no lie to leave out details. Answer honestly when asked, but you are not honor bound to volunteer information. If you don't want to scare employers off by saying you were director of xxx, don't say it.

Second point - I am proud of never having taken unemployment payments. I would rather clean bathrooms first.

Maybe you should sign a waver that you do not want to participate in the unemployment insurance program. Why to pay for the benefit you do not need? When you get sick without having the health insurance, remember not to come to the emergency room - better die.

Lets get something clear - any job is a good job.

While true in a general sense, not everything is right for everyone at every time. I too, when I was in college and high school, worked at jobs like you describe. But for me, at 47 and after a long and successful career and much education, those same jobs are not right...certainly not for anything but the shortest duration imaginable. For me, it would be better to plug away and find something reasonably appropriate than to just take anything. I've had weak moments when I've submitted applications for much lesser positions, but I think I've been fortunate that the people have simply considered me over-qualified -- I would never have survived in those jobs, it wouldn't have been successful.