LOOKING FOR WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 140, 16 June 1939, Page 8

LOOKING FOR WORK

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I trust you will pardon my encroaching on your space and I am not given to "rushing into print," but I would like to reply to "Never Stuck for a Job's" letter in Monday's "Post." I was one of those who served on the battlefields of Gallipoli and Europe. I have not lost my initiative and selfreliance, but I am ' unemployed, and if "Not Stuck for a Job" knew anything about looking for a job he wouldn't have written such a letter, for it does not appear to have entered his head that there are far more workers than there are jobs for, or why the teeming millions of world's unemployed? So the formula for doing away with all unemployment is for the unemployed to scan a telephone directory, make a list of all the firms they would most like to work for, have ah interview, and all would be set: just as easy as that! No, I'm very much of the opinion that "Never Stuck for a Job" has never known the trials and heartbreaks of looking for one; he's probably one of those who started in a job when he left school and has been in it ever since, yet he sits back in his smug com-' placency and thanks Providence he is not as other men. Oh, yes, we know there is always someone leaving a job, but for every one who does there are always a score of relatives or friends who know about it and "get in" long before the vacancy actually occurs. Has "Never Stuck for a Job" ever tried to see the head of a business or firm, and, luckily managing to get past a secretary or clerk, made known his circumstances to the said "head," only to be politely wished good-morning (or afternoon)? Methinks not! But if your correspondent is by any chance thinking of leaving his own job, he can have my name and address with pleasure, though modesty compels me to add that I am scarcely fit to replace such a paragon.—l am, etc., AN HONEST TRIER.