Sometimes we feel all we do is work, work, work. And to what end? Today’s Thursday Thought gives a glimpse into the future.
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Kids who Hide in Plain Sight
Over four million KIDS are on the streets, unaccompanied by an adult, in the U.S. each year. At least a million kids either couch-surf at friends’ homes or sleep on the streets every night. Why don’t we see them? We see the adults loitering, sleeping, or asking for hand-outs, but why not the kids?
Because they try to melt into the population. They hide in plain sight, maybe attending school regularly and/or working at low-paying jobs. They try hard to be invisible. They want to be invisible so they can avoid the shame and stigma associated with homelessness.
We must recognize that the homeless are not just the drunks, the dirty scavengers, the beggars on the street corners. The problem is much larger than that. It’s the adults hiding in plain sight. And it’s the kids. The kids.
Today’s Salaries for College Grads
Do you have someone in their early 20s graduating or recently graduated from college? Do you wonder how much that diploma will pay off in the job market? I do, which is why I found this chart interesting.
Help for the Weary Caregiver
Many of us find ourselves in the position of being a primary caregiver, whether to a child, a spouse, a parent, or a grandparent. Yet, we need to keep our jobs, too. This makes for a very full–and tiring–life. But we do it out of love.
There are ways to ease our burden of love, though. AARP has a few tips to do just that. Learn about those tips at their Balancing Work & Caregiving.
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What are Your Chances of Being Hired?
We’ve come a long way in banishing discrimination in hiring. Or have we? This video presents an interesting–and disturbing–picture.
Help for Job-Seekers
You’re on your way! Several companies liked your resume enough to ask you in for an interview. You’ve picked out your businesslike outfit to wear, gotten a haircut, shaved extra carefully, reviewed what you said in your resume, and thought about the highlights of your work life so far and your personal strengths that you want to get across.
Now, review what you should NOT say during that interview.
Click on “8 Things to Never Tell an Interviewer — Even If They’re True” to make sure you don’t say any of these job-prospect killing statements.
BEFORE You Donate to Good Will…
Put yourself in this position: You are given a job that doesn’t fit your abilities, then criticized and have your pay lowered when you don’t perform well. You may get 58 cents an hour while the executives are paid $48,000 and up a year. The “company” grosses $56 million a year while getting hundreds of millions of dollars in government support, yet none of that money is passed on to you, the worker.
This is Good Will Industries. Their mission is to help the disabled by giving them work, but, in many cases, they hold back people who, properly trained and given the opportunity, could earn their own way into a satisfying, non-poverty-level life.
There are so may other organizations out there that we can give our goods to– Catholic Charities, Salvation Army, charity-supporting thrift stores, etc.–that have low administrative costs and do a huge amount of good work that actually build up people’s lives.
Before you give anything to Good Will, take a look at this eye-opening video: http://www.upworthy.com/words-like-good-and-will-dont-belong-together-if-this-is-the-kind-of-thing-they-do-5?c=bl3.
[Full disclosure: I am a person with a disability.]