In my email today I found a job offering from a head-hunter company who found my email address god-knows-where:
Excavation Manager
Roto Rooter Plumbing & Drain Service
Marlborough, MA
As a 10-years-retired English teacher with earlier professional years in television production, not to mention an even earlier small stint in the CIA’s training department, I haven’t decided whether I’d be under or over qualified.
I keep being offered jobs on call centres. And as a librarian's assistant. And as a shelf stacker. I would certainly be underqualified to undertake a plumbing job. Any plumbing job.
ReplyDeleteHa! I don't think there is much danger of you taking this position. Is there? Please say no. :-)
ReplyDeleteBack in my teaching days, there were moments when cleaning drains seemed preferable to what I was dealing with, but no.
DeleteI'm two months short of seventy nine and still have accounting job offers dangled. Far, far more money than I earned, thirty years ago.
ReplyDeleteBut we have to have good plumbers as well as good writers, or neither our ideas nor our pipes will hold water.
ReplyDeleteFull disclosure, it's not mine! I think it was the man who founded Common Cause.
DeleteI get weird e-mails like that too sometimes. I think, "HOW on earth did I wind up on this mailing list?"
ReplyDeleteThat is so weird. I don’t get emails offering me jobs. They probably know how incompetent I am.
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