Last time I tried to get a job through a state employment agency I had one of those long-continued beaurocratic experiences. My last job had been as a bookkeeper, and they told me they'd call me if they had any bookkeeping openings. I said I can do other things, look at my job history. They said yes, but we still have no jobs.

I went back later. Repeatedly. Each time they said there weren't any bookkeeping jobs, & each time I said I can do other things, and they'd say Mm.

They were doing what the regulations required & had no interest in actually fnding me a job.

I finally found a job on my own before my savings ran out, but if I hadn't I'd have been on the street with people advising me to go to the unemployment office.

There were times later in my life when I had a wife and kids and no savings and was probably less than four paychecks from the street...

There are more kinds of beggars than addicts and wealthy frauds.

clint