Jean Shepherd - "Jobless Skills (restored)"

Sneaky ways to get a new job and Jean's first job. This is a WBJC syndicated replay from May 15, 1975. Special thanks to Jim Clavin of FlickLives.com for preserving this program. [Audio is public domain. Photo © by Fred W. McDarrah, used with permission.]

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In today's post-9/11 world, the first way of getting a job wouldn't work anymore, since all big companies now have greater security and you have to show ID at the front desk and tell who you're there to see and at what time.

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

Thanks. I was about to take half-century old advice from Shep.

[@dank6852]

What's it like to have zero sense of the absurd?

[@erin19030]

I was on that track in my uncles mom and pop supermarket. In 25 years I could work my way up to manager and an 80 hour week. In the last few months of my senior year I would answer an add in Popular Electronics Magazine. The add was for the RCA Technical as a prospective student, it changed my life. The school got me a job at Stouffers to pay my tuition and room and board in NYC. The course was 18 months long , earning an associate degree in Electronics Technology. RCA placed me in my first position with the company as a Color Tv Field service Tech. To make a long story short I progressed in the company to Instructor and later on as a Color Tv research technician at the labs in Princeton. Upon retirement I took a position with Swarthmore College teaching basic electronics to Sophomore Physics Majors. I had a good run and retired for good when I was 70. In. Y retirement years I traveled the world with my wife of 39 years. We settled down in a little town in Donegal, Ireland called Ballyshanon.