“Millions of workers who have already been unemployed for months, if not years, will most likely remain that way even as the overall job market continues to improve, economists say. The occupations they worked in, and the skills they currently possess, are never coming back in style.”
The New Poor - The Economy Shifts, Leaving Some Behind - NYTimes.com
Record label/music PR is probably “never coming back in style”, huh?
(via gainfulunemployment)
I’m more struck by this line: “Or perhaps the paper her résumé is printed on is not nice enough”
I think sending a meatspace resume at all—let alone wondering whether the dead trees on which it’s printed have been processed using the appropriate methods—is a far worse indicator for one’s re-employment than an attachment to any particular industry.
