June 12, 2015
Al Thompson's Advice to "White, Male & Broke in LA"
I grew up and made my career in Los Angeles. I was a musician at one time and I was in the similar position although I was married and just 32. I hated college because of all the libtards, so I had to find something that I could make enough money to raise a family. Reading this article reminds me of those years and so I'm going to give some ideas and advice so Vince can move ahead with his life.
I would not think about the race issue and I would move out of the service industry. Yeah, he probably made good money as a bartender, but you can't really do that when you're old. My saying is this: "Nothing good happens in a bar."
The main thing in this situation is to forget about the racial stuff. The service industry tends to be like that but it's not going to do any good thinking about it. You need to find a job, and to find it quickly.
There are a lot of companies that need good sales people. I'm assuming that Vince is very personable, so that would fit in well with any customer service or sales rep position.
I would look for a company that is small to medium size in a business to business environment. I would stay away from any high pressure type of job. Sales reps can make good money and it shouldn't be difficult for him to be making in the area of $70,000 plus within a couple of years. For instance, with his background, there are quite a few restaurant supply companies who might hire him. But any supply type of company, manufacturers, and distributors need good sales reps. So the idea here is to find a company that will give him a chance.
How I did it was to start calling businesses around my area and ask for the business owner or the sales manager. Forget the filing of a bunch of resumes, and try to stay away from companies with "human resources" departments. Do have a resume, but don't put too much hope in submitting them. He wants a job and he wants it fast. If they have an HR department, they may be too big to get started without a degree. This is how I did it and I had a few opportunities from just sitting down for a few hours and calling businesses. Within a day, I had a commission only sales job with a decent size company and I was on my way. Within three weeks I was making more money than I expected because I worked hard to make the sales. There are also salaried with commission and he may find an opportunity there. This should be easy for him as he had to be personable to his customers while bartending.
I wouldn't leave LA until you have a skill set that you can take elsewhere. LA is tough but it can be done. It won't serve you well to worry about what is fair and unfair, you just need to go to work at something. So, if you can make it work in LA, you can make it work anywhere. It really isn't that difficult and should be for Vince.
I didn't even know about this kind of work many years ago. It's better than anything else I can think of and he'll be able to do it when he's an old man.
Remember, CommieFornia was stolen from Mexico by the United States government so there's no point in worrying about it. I would definitely be learning Spanish on the side which will make his skills more marketable. But he won't need to know Spanish for most of the jobs to which I'm referring.
If he does what I'm saying here, he should have a gig in a week or so.
http://verydumbgovernment.blogspot.com/2013/09/labor-real-inflation-part-2.html
