Re: Advice for someone re-entering the work force

["Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>]

On Wednesday, August 20, 2008, Gene Kim-Eng wrote: 

> I can't speak on the Denver job market, but as a technical
> publications manager I would consider someone with a
> 20-year absence from the workplace who has not done
> anything on the side to maintain current knowledge and
> skills in the profession to be unemployable.  

I agree with Gene completely. I wouldn't look twice at a person like that. As others have said, 
she needs to get herself a good lawyer and negotiate that her spouse pay for her retraining 
for X number of years so that she can re-enter the workforce. She should also be getting 
alimony until she is able to support herself, and I would fight for getting my attorney fees paid 
as well. 

If that's impossible, first off, I say fire the attorney (the "demands" above are not 
extraordinary, especially if the spouse is indeed "rich"). Then I would take a job as a 
secretary in a stable company with potential and work my way up. It's the pits, but sometimes 
the bootstraps are your only option. 

2 cents,

Dana W. 

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Dana Worley
Software Product Manager/Manager, Software Support Group
Campbell Scientific, Inc. 
Microsoft MVP, Windows Help


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