[mitigatedchaos]

@poipoipoi-2016

In response to that last, I’ve heard enough stories about my paternal grandparents to really want divorce to be a thing that happens more often, but at the same time, I heard enough stories about Grandma and her six husbands to be deeply suspect of divorce.

I realized that something related showed up in my life. There was a guy I knew online. Black guy living in a city. His step dad had him working at his small business, and it interfered with his ability to complete school. Then he was of age, and the step dad tried to kick him out, but he didn’t have a job, so he was sneaking into the house to avoid ending up homeless. His resume was terrible, just a few cobbled-together, unformatted paragraphs. I would say “shouldn’t they teach resume writing in school?” but even if they did, the terrible step dad might have had him working or something so that he wasn’t able to attend or complete that! But he was a decent guy, and had a good work ethic, so I went through carefully building a resume with him, and he got a job soon enough after and was able to move out. It’s no wonder he had been depressed earlier! And, like, in between then, we got advice from my ex-girlfriend’s partner, who has lived the low-class life, on how to try to keep him out of the street at night until he could move out.

But how many guys like him are out there, even in this country, you know? Who don’t have a hand-me-down laptop and a connection to a bunch of random nerds who know how to write a resume for him so he can get a stable income?

So I can’t really be a true GOPper, but also the risk with the step parents stuff is real.

[mitigatedchaos]

@neoliberalismnightly

still though, aren’t libraries a thing?

1. Is the library going to let him stay overnight?
   
2. Is the library going to tell him what he doesn’t know that he doesn’t know?
3. Is the library going to think to ask him to look at his resume to try and find out why he’s having so much trouble getting a job?
4. Is the library going to carefully go over his first draft at a new resume according to an intuition on writing these things by someone who can speak a bit of corporatese?
5. How fast can the library improve his professional (not casual, which in this case was fine due to his communicating on the internet a lot before) writing skills?  Is it fast enough?
6. Is the library going to help him filter the information he does receive in case some of it is junk?

Having libraries is good in part for these reasons, but it isn’t really enough.

[neoliberalism-nightly]

I just don’t really know besides having school teach resume building, personal finance and household ed like they do in Asia.

I don’t really think those are partisan issues, and I expect on balance social conservatism actually help with this regard because of church provides outside mentors.

[mitigatedchaos]

I just don’t really know besides having school teach resume building, personal finance and household ed like they do in Asia.

I do think schools teaching that would be good.  It might not have helped in this case, but fewer people falling through the net is good.

Also, it isn’t like this blog is against “let’s do this one thing they do in Asia,” heh.

I don’t really think those are partisan issues, and I expect on balance social conservatism actually help with this regard because of church provides outside mentors.

See, there’s a reason I’m not all hyped about getting rid of the churches.  I mean, multiple reasons really, but you get the idea.

Maybe the answer here is in a kind of community action, of organizations to mentor people at this stuff… but I suspect that’s also going to trend a bit communitarian.