NPR’s Marketplace…

Posted under How I See It by Mike

A few weeks ago, I was sent an email from NPR’s Marketplace radio asking if I wanted to discuss my current job situation.  Usually I don’t respond to these emails, they seem more trouble than their worth.  But since time is a luxury that I seem to have in abundance, I decided to fill out their online form, just for giggles. 

I mean really, who wants the opinion from a 49 year old, unemployed, former IT, occasional freelance writer anyways.  Surprise, they called me Friday morning and asked if I’d like to be interviewed concerning my frustrating employment situation.  You know, the one I whine about all the time here on the blog. 

Mitchell Hartman, a reporter for Marketplace called and we talked for about 10 minutes.  We discussed how I came to be unemployed and how the job market is pretty stagnant here in Southern California.  I mentioned my wife and three teenage daughters and how keeping up appearances is important to them.  I might be down, but I am far from out. 

All in all, it was fun.  My 5 minutes of fame I guess.

UPDATE:  If you go to this link you can see the short story and if you click on the “listen to the story” link you can hear my brief 10 seconds (of a 10 minute interview).  Oh well,

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/12/04/pm-jobs/