CSotD: Gadzooks! I needeth ye job!
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The Knight Life is on Day Two of what I hope will be a week-long arc about a job fair that doesn't offer any jobs. Oh, sorry — "job faire."
It's over a year since I last walked into an office and sat at a desk, and I can't say I miss it a whole lot, but I am curious about the amount of energy I used to summon for mundane tasks that never paid very well. I used to regularly put in massive amounts of time at the office, so, considering that I was salaried and drew no overtime, there must have been something about the interaction that I enjoyed. And we didn't have turkey legs, so that wasn't it.
When I was first out of college and looking for work, I used to amuse myself by imagining a TV show called "Job Hunt" that would be based on Dragnet and would, in fact, star Jack Webb and Harry Morgan, but would be set at a diner instead of a police station. Each episode would feature them going through the want ads, going to apply for the jobs and then figuring out the phrases in the ads that should have tipped them off to what a scam it was.
But I have heard of real places that will let you rent a phone and a desk, complete with fax, copiers and someone to take messages for you while you look for work. They're kind of like a business incubator that allows small businesses to cut office expenses until they're up and running, only geared for white collar unemployed. Apparently, they provide a structure that helps people stay focused on the task of endlessly sending out resumes and trying to get interviews, which can be discouraging enough that some people need the familiar routine to stay focused.
I have a feeling Keith Knight's "Job Faire" is going to be less like that and a lot more like "Job Hunt."
Unless those job-search places hire people to purposely take the last cup of coffee without making a new pot, walk away from paper jams and prattle endlessly about their most recent dating debacles.
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