Character traits that won't keep you employed.

Well, desperate is back on the market for employment again. She is discovering the very traits of character: honesty, helpfulness, productivity, professionalism, and flexibility are not considered as much as how you look.

Employers today want someone malleable, compliant, loyal, and complacent. Unfortunately, anyone with a work history that spans more than a decade will not be able to fit the profile pliable, energetic, and eager

to learn. 

After several failed attempts to fit the role, Desperate realizes she will never be satisfied working for employers who care less for the details of the day-to-day struggle to meet their bottom line. These kinds of employers drain the enthusiasm for progress. They do not honor hiring wages that would meet the recent increases in expenditures such as rent, mortgage, gas, insurance rates, utilities, and groceries. 

She was recently considered for a position in the Retail industry that offered her a salary of $8.00 an hour for 18-25 hours a week as a stocker or a management position with a salary of $10.50 an hour for 38-40 a week with the option of overtime pay, if corporate-approved. This offer was even less than the last place of employment by $1.00 to work as an assistant manager.

Upon hearing this offer, she was reminded of the article read about employers being unable to find 

competent workers. It made her smirk at the thought someone wrote an industry bias article about the struggles to have a competent workforce. When most employers are not looking for competency, but who will work for the equalivalent of 20% payment for an expectancy of two person workload.