Quotes About Job-seeking

Unemployment was a relatively new phenomenon, an artifact of the rise of industrial America where large gains in productivity often came at the expense of economic security. The word unemployment took on its modern meaning of being without work and seeking a wage-paying job only within a dominant wage-labor system where the wageworkers lacked the opportunity to retreat to the countryside to engage in independent agricultural production during downturns.

Almost no one understood the fundamental idea behind writing a job application letter. They would write sentences such as I have no job and would like a job or I am bored and want a job. The entire concept of making oneself marketable in the eyes of a prospective employer did not exist.