Subject:Re: Advice for someone re-entering the work force From:"Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:41:58 -0600
On Wednesday, August 20, 2008, Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> I can't speak on the Denver job market, but as a technical
> publications manager I would consider someone with a
> 20-year absence from the workplace who has not done
> anything on the side to maintain current knowledge and
> skills in the profession to be unemployable.
I agree with Gene completely. I wouldn't look twice at a person like that. As others have said,
she needs to get herself a good lawyer and negotiate that her spouse pay for her retraining
for X number of years so that she can re-enter the workforce. She should also be getting
alimony until she is able to support herself, and I would fight for getting my attorney fees paid
as well.
If that's impossible, first off, I say fire the attorney (the "demands" above are not
extraordinary, especially if the spouse is indeed "rich"). Then I would take a job as a
secretary in a stable company with potential and work my way up. It's the pits, but sometimes
the bootstraps are your only option.
2 cents,
Dana W.
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Dana Worley
Software Product Manager/Manager, Software Support Group
Campbell Scientific, Inc.
Microsoft MVP, Windows Help
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