7,000 job seekers for 500 part time jobs with Los Angeles Dodger stadium

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/01/job.fair.turnout/index.html

Dodgers field almost 7,000 seekers for 500 part-time jobs

* Story Highlights
* Part-time jobs go from stadium security to hawking beer during the games
* Dodgers officials said they had expected as many as 10,000 applicants
* Says job seeker: "Everyone would like to come to L.A. and work for the Dodgers"
* Unemployment rate in California in January was 10.1 percent



LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The long lines of parked cars outside Dodger Stadium could have been the typical sign of an afternoon game featuring the Boys in Blue. But the massive crowd of cars at the stadium during the weekend had more to do with income than infield plays.

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The jobs to be filled from the fair pay from $9.50 to $17 an hour, and they drew applicants from a broad spectrum of ages and backgrounds.

Bob Reider, 68, came looking for a beer-cart job to supplement his Social Security check. For Reider, the money would help pay for tuition and books for his two youngest children in their final years of college.

"This is supposed to be the golden years, whatever that means," Reider said, adding, "I am in excellent health, and I don't mind working and I got a good cause. So it all fits."

It's the economic downturn, Reider said, that has caused him to look for work in his senior years.

"It is very difficult to live on what we have today," he declared, noting the difficulty of the job search. "It's almost impossible for me to find a reasonable daytime job at my age."

[FrenchieCat]

1. This is some tragic shit!

thank you Mr. George Fucking Bush!

[northofdenali]

2. Not unusual.

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