http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/being-homeless-a-struggle-even-with-a-100000-job-offer/
By Danny Westneat
The Seattle Times
December 6, 2015
When I first meet James Simmons, he’s at the state welfare office trying
to get some more food stamps. He survives on those, along with some free
meals he gets at the homeless shelter, where he lives.
It’s a jarring background to what I’m there to talk to him about. Which is
that he just got offered a six-figure job as a security-systems analyst.
“The job only exists in there,” he says, pointing at a beat-up laptop
computer. “What exists in there doesn’t help me eat.”
Simmons, 55, lives at the Compass Center’s night shelter near Seattle
Center, beneath a church parking garage. He’s got a bunk in a room with 60
other men. He’s been homeless, off and on, for the past seven years.
Yet on his laptop he shows me the interviews and job leads he’s had only
in the past week. IBM. Wells Fargo. Frontier Airlines. T-Mobile. Experian.
Daimler Chrysler. All interested in tapping his decades of experience as a
certified information systems auditor, which he describes as “basically a
cyber-cop.”
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