ml>> welcome to the club... i'm going on 4 years, now ;(

 SD> I hate to say it, but McDonald's might be an option until I
 SD> can get my A+...

i can't get on at any of the FF places in this area... too many kids and
everyone says that i'm overqualified when they see my work history and/or
resume ;(  i can't help it if i've 30 years in the computer industry...
seems they think of me as a "brain" and that i'll get bored with
the job or something so they take the easy way out with that excuse...

they're not the only one's either... i was with terminix for 30 days and
got the same basic thing the day they let me go ;(

 SD> however, my wife just got hired yesterday at
 SD> Jo-ann Fabrics.  They were hiring for seasonal positions, but
 SD> she got hired as permanent! :)  I'm very proud of her.  The
 SD> pay isn't that great, but she works from 5 AM-11 AM Mon-Wed
 SD> and 5 AM-1:30 PM on Thurs-Fri.  She has weekends off.  The
 SD> store manager is going to Kennesaw State University (the local
 SD> college) herself, so she told Maura (my wife) that this job
 SD> would be great for her to keep while she was going to school.

 SD> I'm really proud of my wife-she finally found a job she'll
 SD> love.  Today's her orientation... in fact, have to be leaving
 SD> soon to get her there.

excellent! i hope she does enjoy it...

 SD> As for me, well... I'll keep looking. :)  Thankfully, I am
 SD> living rent-free and I own my own car, so I'm not doing
 SD> terrible.

hear that... i'm pretty much in the same way...

 SD> Why can't you find work there?  Just nothing there to find?

it's a redneck country area... farming and fabric mills and then there is
Static Control... i've heard some pretty rough horror stories about that
place... but heck, i might be able to get on there or one of the other
manufacturing places working in stock or loading trucks or something... as
long as i don't keep getting that "overqualified" garbage as i
have in the past... even radio shack and lowes hardware have given me that
line ;(

)\/(ark