Thank you, I'll certainly give it some thought. :-)

I am wondering why a guy who was teacher 13yrs and got an MA in Media communications always with the thought that it would help get into the sales of educational publishing is having the hardest struggle to get interviews in educational publishing opportunities..?
I wrote my thesis on available educational media choices in the USA in 2002...one side of me says age is factor...I am 54....

i can give it a try. i don't have much work experience as obtaining my degree was hard enough with my ex college screwed up program plus it took all IT students 4 yrs to get the degree. anyway, i don't have certification for it and that's fine too expensive.

ive been told to volunteer thats nice but i dont have the financial means to do it. so, nobody should talk to me about working for free i got bills and car maintenance that needs to be fixed, so working for free is not on my mind. i notice companies arent hiring even if you have a degree or better yet no degree. all i did was (since i didn't work much) was obtaining my degree and the companies hate that answer. after i got my degree in may 2010, i started looking for entry level jobs. now, every entry level job says 1-2 yrs of exp or 2-3 yrs of exp which is not true i remember it being zero experience, starting from the bottom and go up.

well, every job i have applied for says not qualified or don't have enough experience. ive applied to over 100 jobs had 2 interviews during the 2011 holiday season was counting on one of the 2 interviews but never got it. been to interviews where the questions are just getting stupider and stupider.

been to every workshop/career center and they are just as useless as the fools on linkedin.com. no help, still talking about the good old days, and still giving out old job info that isn't working anymore. the state i live in the economy hasn't picked up at all and no, i am not relocating anywhere still takes money to pack up and move again don't talk to me about that either.

In comparing notes with other unemployed folks, the level of professional etiquette is at near zero. The general thinking is that people feel that they do not have to get back to folks. I'm soon to be back in the work world and will not forget how search firm people didn't return emails or calls.

My recommendation for ways you can be helpful is to do what you can to increase the civility in the current work environment. To the extent you can share this with colleagues, do so.

i've had unprofessional managers call me and badger me about why i wouldn't come in for an interview which i had good reasons why. yea, seems like it is now near zero that they can talk to you however they want.