Can't get hired by McDonald's = Fail?

momof2inca
Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:03:53 +0000

D is home for the summer and has applied to at least a dozen places… no call backs except for one, a catering company which signed her up two weeks ago but has yet to call for any real work. She’s sent email information to employers advertising on Craigslist, met with managers in person at restaurants and other shops and nothing. I’ve called in favors from friends who “know people” who might be hiring. I’ve been keeping an eye out around town for help wanted signs and there aren’t any.

It’s a bad, bad time to try to find a job. It doesn’t help that she returns to college out of state at the end of September and she got home in mid-June, a full month after other college kids returned home and scooped up any temporary work. Sigh.

I also read recently that only 19% of the Class of 2009 (college class) were employed at graduation!