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Lydia Leftcoast

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7. I tried to brainstorm about self-employment with a long-term unemployed friend

Reply to duffyduff (Reply #6)

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 10:13 PM

Jan 2013

I was lucky in that I have a skill (Japanese-English translation) that people will pay for, but my friend had only skills that would work as part-time jobs (grant writing, fundraising) and she had health issues that limited her ability to retrain or relocate.

And what about the laid-off 50-something whose entire job history was in manual labor?

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