Meet the pope? Free money? Better: A job

Mark Scarp, Tribune reporter, attended the Scottsdale Job Network Meeting this week, spoke to many job seekers and volunteers and wrote a very good story.

Scarp: Meet the pope? Free money? Better: A job
Mark Scarp, Tribune

How often lately have you sat with dozens of others listening to a 90-minute presentation and not one cell phone rang? Or, no one even got up to go to the restroom?

Maybe if the speaker was the pope, or was drawing names at random and handing those people free $1,000 bills.

Neither was going on as about 125 people seeking a “landing” – unemployed-speak for getting a new job – were at Tuesday’s semimonthly meeting of the Scottsdale Job Network. The 10-year-old nonprofit unemployed workers’ group met at a northeast Phoenix synagogue.

Those in attendance treated what they were hearing like extras in an old E.F. Hutton commercial: ears bent and leaning forward.

Pope? Free money? Nope. When you’re out of work, you want to get work as soon as possible, but need to learn how to accomplish that the best way.

Being out of a job in Scottsdale isn’t much different than anywhere else: More people are lately.

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Scarp: Meet the pope? Free money? Better: A job

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