Barbara Ehnrenreich is still on the hunt for a job. She has enlisted yet another job coach and has attended a few job fairs and conventions. Some of the people she has encountered have been looking for jobs for over nine months! This makes Barbara feel a little defeated because she expected to have a job within two to three months, but it has already been four months. One of her coaches is mad at her because she has only networked with unemployed people. So she gave Barbara an assignment to network with everyone: relatives, the secretary at the doctor's office, etc. Both Barbara Ehnrenreich and her alias Barbara Alexander are exhausted from all of these job searches and revisions of resumes. She has already spent a couple thousand dollars but yet has ssen any results of her getting a job. At this point she is very desperate for a job and is not willing to quit.
Tone: Determined
Allusion: " For a moment I reeled, feeling like a character in an early Pynchon novel who has just been handed a major clue in a plot that will never be resolved..." page 123
Imagery: "Larry's choices: a mound of lettuce, covred with canned fruit salad, topped by a desiccated gray hamburger patty and dripping with Thousand Island dressing." page 125
Question: Why is networking a good strategy for finding a job?
Thursday, March 6, 2008
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