My mind has no internal censor. A constant stream of really bad ideas flow through it. Sometimes I’ll realize that I just spent an hour working on an idea on par with dehydrated water.
For example, today:
Like so many others, I am unemployed. I spent all morning sending out resumes, and then went to get a cheap burrito at the local taqueria. It dawned at me that for all I know the taquaria could be hiring. The guy I saw walking down the street could be hiring. All these people could be hiring and they’d never know how badly I need a job.
Unless, of course, I found a way to make them know.
So I decided that I ought to market “unemployed” tee-shirts. That way even walking down the street can help your job search. I could make specialty ones like “unemployed tech-worker” and for an additional fee screen print one’s resume on the back. It’d be great! I’d make a fortune!
Until it dawned on me…the unemployed market is not a lucrative one.
There was a guy in NYC a few years ago that made one of those billboards you wear, with his resume on it. I assume he got a job after he was writen up in the paper about it.
Sending big HUGE! Positive employment vibes your way.
Are you temping to make ends meet?
Why not approach the company you want to look for, ask who they hire temps from and then go to said agency and work for them? Great foot in the door method. And money everyweek! Or if you want to move to CT the College I teach at is hiring a tech…
It is a brilliant idea. You just have your target market all wrong. I have been laid off twice in the last couple of years. Both times, I was told by HR and everything seemed so cold and impersonal. They gave me a severance package and lots of paperwork but it still stung really badly. What I would have appreciated is a little souvenier or something to break the tension in the air. Something like… an “UNEMPLOYED” t-shirt. We all would have gotten a big laugh out of that after they gave it to me. I am sure that everyone in that situation would feel the same way. You could market the shirts to HR departments. If you could score a sale to a big company on the rocks about to announce a massive layoff then go you. The companies would like it too because t-shirts are much cheaper than resume workshops, career counselors and that other crap they throw in sometimes.