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Homeless Aggie passes out resumes at corner instead of begging. Gets 200 offers
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:06 am
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:06 am
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All those times you pass those deadbeats at the intersection begging for money and don't really want work? Well, then there's this Red Blooded American.
All those times you pass those deadbeats at the intersection begging for money and don't really want work? Well, then there's this Red Blooded American.
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Casarez grew up in the border town of Laredo, Texas.
He earned a bachelor’s in management information systems from Texas A&M University, landed a good web developer job at General Motors in Austin, but then cashed out his 401(k) and drove to Silicon Valley to pursue the dream of his own tech startup — only to run out of cash in June.
“I’d been living in my car for more than a year,” he said of his 2015 Ford Transit Connect utility van
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On Friday morning, homeless web developer David Casarez woke from his park bench in Mountain View, Calif., put on a nice shirt and tie, and carried his hand-written cardboard sign to a nearby highway median.
A passerby’s photo of him standing on the median holding the sign soon went viral on Twitter, and by Saturday afternoon, he’d been flooded with more than 200 job offers.
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On Friday, he dressed as best he could — “to be presentable to my future employers,” he explained — and set out with his new sign and a stack of resumes in a FedEx envelope. “It was basically a make-or-break moment,” he said of his job-search breakthrough.
“I wanted to keep my head up high, keep looking forward and see what opportunity would come next,” he added. “I was thinking, you know, like this was like my last stop. If this didn’t work, I’d go back home and give up on my dream.” He’d only been standing on the median at El Camino Real and San Antonio Road for a couple hours when a passing driver named Jasmine Scofield stopped and asked if she could take his picture and post it online.
Sure, Casarez told her.
“Today I saw this young homeless man asking for people to take a resume rather than asking for money,” she tweeted around 5 p.m. Friday. “Please RT so we can help David out!”
By mid-afternoon Saturday California time, Scofield’s photos of Casarez and his resume had been retweeted more than 50,000 times, and liked nearly 70,000 times. “It’s been happening very quickly, and I’m in shock,” he said. “I wasn’t expecting that kind of response,” he added. “It kinda blew up.”
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:07 am to cokebottleag
He's either not really homeless or he's a crazy person.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:08 am to cokebottleag
What a dope
You don't quit your main job unless and until your side hustle takes off.
You don't quit your main job unless and until your side hustle takes off.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:08 am to cokebottleag
Now that's what I call pounding the pavement.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:08 am to cokebottleag
His unique tactic worked
MAGA
MAGA
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:09 am to cokebottleag
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200 job offers.
Man thats a lot of gay sex.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:09 am to cokebottleag
Stuff like this is great to see. Hope still springs in America.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:10 am to TJGator1215
You aren't the target audience here. I'll find a story about a welfare queen getting free shite later and send you a PM.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:10 am to mofungoo
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His unique tactic worked
Maybe he shoulda passed out resumes before he was homeless? WTF?
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:10 am to HeyHeyHogsAllTheWay
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What a dope
You don't quit your main job unless and until your side hustle takes off.
some people take risks and they don't work out. i'm not going to fault him for that, and i'm definitely not going to fault him for seeking a job and not a handout
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:11 am to TJGator1215
He'll be on Trump's next speaking tour. MAGA
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:11 am to cokebottleag
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passes out resumes at corner instead of begging
Yeah that's how it's done
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:12 am to cokebottleag
Awesome. Good for him.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:13 am to 3nOut
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some people take risks and they don't work out. i'm not going to fault him for that, and i'm definitely not going to fault him for seeking a job and not a handout
I was being semi sarcastic. I've oft told the story of the family my family brought in off the street, in case you missed it Husband and wife and two kids. Moved down from Kansas looking for work, ran out of money in Branson, couldn't find work, had a sign up "will work for food for children" we brought the four of them to our farm, fed them, gave the husband a job ,etc etc. they have been with us 4 years now, great family. Not everyone with a sign is a loser. I know that first hand
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:21 am to HeyHeyHogsAllTheWay
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You don't quit your main job unless and until your side hustle takes off.
If you are putting enough time into your side business for it to be semi successful, you have 99.9% done something that would allow your main employer to claim ownership of your business. Any company resources used, any company time used, even sometimes using company contacts are enough. Just saying, it is risky to run a side business while employed.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:48 am to cokebottleag
So graduate from Aggieland and beg for jobs on the corner?
I keeeeed. You have to admire his tenacity and even better he got some offers.
I keeeeed. You have to admire his tenacity and even better he got some offers.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:51 am to cokebottleag
Guys a stable genius id hire him
Posted on 7/30/18 at 11:52 am to cwill
quote:That's what every homeless person should've done. How does that help him now?
Maybe he shoulda passed out resumes before he was homeless? WTF?
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