When Unemployment and Loneliness Collide
2009 June 26
I know how this guy feels. John and I considered doing the same, but we started a blog instead.
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I try to monetize my free time by soliciting business services and financial products for commissions.
Ha! He might want to be careful who he talks to. Avoid quantum physics.
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Physics discussion ends in skateboard attack
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, June 25, 2009
(06-24) 13:20 PDT SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO — A homeless man is on trial in San Mateo County on charges that he smacked a fellow transient in the face with a skateboard as the victim was engaged in a conversation about quantum physics, authorities said Wednesday.
Jason Everett Keller, 40, allegedly accosted another homeless man, Stephan Fava, on the 200 block of Grand Avenue in South San Francisco about 1:45 p.m. March 30.
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At the time, Fava was chatting with an acquaintance, who is also homeless, about “quantum physics and the splitting of atoms,” according to prosecutors.
Keller joined in the conversation and, for reasons unknown, got upset, authorities said. He picked up his skateboard and hit Fava in the face with it, splitting his lip, prosecutors said.
Fava also fell and broke his ankle, although how this happened wasn’t known, authorities said.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/25/BAH118D37E.DTL
I started writing since I had nobody to talk to. I ended up turning it into a book and starting a small blog. Whatever we have to do to keep our mental acuity until we land jobs is worthwhile.
So these Mormon missionairies were working my neighborhood. Not only did I invite them in for a sit down, I had them checking their watches. I think it was my crazy unemployment beard and moustache.
Is that guy at the Quad at UCDavis?
This gentleman probably represents most “college” grad with no/very few employment prospects whatsoever. The work-addicted boomers will not retire b/c their retire funds are severely hurt plus their identities are their jobs (pathologic), the recent college grad will find very few real job prospects other than coffee making, fax printing, and cleaning office refrigs. Welcome to the new USA, and your parents’ basement.
It gets tougher everyday to stay positive. Friends and ex-coworkers are very slow to return phone calls or emails, like they’re scared your joblessness will rub off on them. Then I come to my senses and realize they have lives and fears/concerns of their own. It’s a battle not to make yourself totally crazy.