# Suggest a job for my brother!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-job-for-my-brother/239420>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 11, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-job-for-my-brother/239420 "2004-04-11T05:09:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-job-for-my-brother/239420/1 "2004-04-11T05:09:15Z")

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My little brother just lost his job. ☹ He was employed in a retail position for six years. He’s twenty-nine, has about fifty college credits and likes to read. He lives in Las Vegas with my parents. He has a slight speech impediment.

And if you can’t think of a job, please suggest some places on the net where I might help him find one.

Thanks. 🙂

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**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-job-for-my-brother/239420/2 "2004-04-11T06:09:09Z")

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Work at a casino?

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**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-job-for-my-brother/239420/3 "2004-04-11T06:58:46Z")

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Barnes & Noble?

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**Author:** ![glass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac8455/32.png) [@glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glass)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-job-for-my-brother/239420/4 "2004-04-11T07:13:34Z")

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He is an experienced retail person. The answer seems obvious to me, unless there is something you forgot to mention…like he will die if he has to spend one more day in retail?

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**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-job-for-my-brother/239420/5 "2004-04-11T08:02:45Z")

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Oops. I meant a career not a job.

What professions with good earnings are sheduled to grow over the next ten years?

My mom wants me to help him but I don’t quite know where to begin. She also wants him to move out of the house, start a family, begin supporting himself. . . .

But the first step is a long term decent job.

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**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-job-for-my-brother/239420/6 "2004-04-11T09:57:52Z")

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What were his credits in? Does he want to go back to school? What interests him?