Related: Globe Assists Ahlfeld
Found him a job:
"Long job search finally ends for one man; After enduring 2 trying years of unemployment, he gets the call — and a job — at last" by Megan Woolhouse | Globe Staff, October 22, 2013
Roger Ahlfeld’s long search for a job ended suddenly one afternoon with a phone call.
A senior executive at Tedeschi Food Stores called and asked him to be the Rockland company’s vice president of human resources. After more than two years of unemployment, Ahlfeld hardly hesitated, saying only he wanted to review the contract. Then he hung up the phone and jumped up and down, fist-pumping the air.
“I told the family, and I called my parents,” said Ahlfeld, 45, of Framingham. “My mother cried. They all knew it had been tough.”
Ahlfeld’s search was the subject of a Globe story in June highlighting the problems facing the long-term unemployed. Many are older, with significant work experience and a deeply ingrained work ethic, but they face a cruel Catch-22: The longer they are jobless, the harder it is for them to land a job....
Tell me about it. I swabbed toilets and did other disgusting and humiliating things for over two years before my spirit was crushed. You know, the jobs Amurkns don't wanna due.
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Also see: Age bias, lower pay big challenges for older job-hunters
Fugazzie got f***ed.
