Dress for the job you want, not for the job you have. In many cases, this will mean showing up to the interview in a pirates suit.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Richard J. Williams <pundits...@gmail.com>wrote: > I've been giving a monthly donation to the United Way for about fifteen > years - it's too complicated to figure out who to give to - so I just trust > them to know what to do. I get approached almost every week for spare > change and I donate cash on a case-by-case basis. > > One time I saw an RV parked in the parking lot of a Burger King - the > owner stepped out and told me his water pump went out and he was stuck > there with his wife and kids. So, I took him to a nearby Auto Zone and > bought him a water pump, and when we got back I bought burgers for everyone > and gave them some cash for gas, so they could get back to Austin. > > Anther time a guy asked for some spare change saying he ran out of gas on > the highway to Poteet. So, I told him I would get some cash out of the ATM > and meet him on the highway to help him out. After shopping for about > fifteen minutes I got on the highway to Poteet but a broken down car was > nowhere to be seen. Go figure. > > I'm not real big on giving out cash so people can buy cigarettes, beer or > wine or drugs. We have a brand-new "Haven for Humanity" shelter on the east > side of town. It costs millions of dollars to build and operate. Anyone can > go there to get over night food and shelter in bad weather. And, they have > a program to help you get well, get training, write a resume, get > interviews for jobs, and they've even got low-rent apartments for people > for longer-term stays. Thousands of people have benefited from this program > in the last five years. > > I talked to one homeless guy one time recently - he was in a wheel chair > downtown with a duffel bag on the back of his chair. He said he liked to be > out doors, where he felt free, and could do what he wanted to do - he > didn't like rules and authority. He wasn't crazy either and I could see his > point. > > > > On 12/11/2013 9:58 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: > > > > Don't be hard on them - it is a sin to see homeless people in this country > - Here, in Silicon Valley, one of the wealthiest places on earth, we had > seven homeless people freeze to death, last week. We have the fifth largest > homeless population, of any county in the US. I recall helping out the > beggars who came to our door, in Indonesia, and I never, ever expected to > see such grinding poverty, here in the US - what a crime. > > > >
