Thanks for your help. I mean I'm doing that, I've prepped my
'elevator talk' as they say. It's better in person. On a corporate
online form, all the blank fields have to be filled in before it will accept
the application. I do run an eBay business for more than 12 years.
It's had trouble growing, but it's been every month, and I built it from
nothing.
I really don't ever expect to work for someone else again. That's not a
statement of defiance or choice, it's just the way things are breaking down.
I guess I have to see what verbage I can shake out to fill all the fields in the
forms. But employers are not pleased if consistent, monthly, yearly independent
documentation of employment is absent. There are no supervisors, no references.
I have a reference from an elder support group. When i go to apply to that specific
job, one of the stay at home care businesses, they want ... work, references,
etc.
As the years went by, I didn't think about it. I was busy, with no time for a career.
When I got back to it, it would all fall into place.
People tell me to focus on a worthwhile career. Ok, I do have sales in mind. It's better
than an occupation like office work where the jobs have been squeezed out by computers.
Though I do have the sense that what office workers remain sometimes double as impromptu
salespeople.
But mostly I just try to land a job, any job within 35 miles. A stepping stone, and from the few
interviews I've had the employers are very sensitive to someone over-educated - they fear
you'll leave, or stay and tell everyone what to do. So they move on to someone else. Very
few applications receive any reply at all. I got 2 in the last 8 months.
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