[CS-FSLUG] An unemployed man..............

[Warren Sanders]

Don Parris wrote:

>On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:46:50 -0500, Fred A. Miller
><fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
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>>An unemployed man is desperate to support his family  of a wife and three
>>kids. He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passes an
>>aptitude test.
>>
>>The human resources manager tells him, "You will be hired at minimum wage of
>>$5.35 an hour. Let me have your E-mail address so that we can get you in the
>>loop. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you
>>when to start and where to report on your first day."
>>
>>Taken back, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer nor an
>>E-mail address. To this the manager replies, "You must understand that to a
>>company like ours that means that you virtually do not exist.   Without an
>>E-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm. Good
>>day!"
>>
>>Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having $10.00 in his
>>wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling 25-lb.
>>crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy
>>corner and displays the tomatoes.  In less than two hours he sells all the
>>tomatoes and makes 100% profit.  Repeating the process several times more
>>that day, he ends up with  almost $100.00 and arrives home that night with
>>several bags of groceries for his family.
>>
>>During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day.   By
>>the end of the week he is getting up early every day and working into the
>>night. He multiplies his profits quickly. Early in the second week he
>>acquires a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before
>>a month is up he sells the cart to buy a broken-down pickup truck.
>>
>>At the end of a year he owns three old trucks. His two sons have left their
>>neighborhood, but return to help him with the tomato business.  His wife is
>>buying the tomatoes, and his daughter is taking night courses at the
>>community college so she can keep books for him.
>>
>>By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs
>>fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He continues to
>>work hard.
>>
>>Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice, new
>>trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms that
>>the boys manage.  The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of homeless
>>and jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the business grossed a
>>million dollars.
>>
>>Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance.
>>
>>Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an  insurance plan to fit his
>>new circumstances.  Then the adviser asks him for his E-mail address in order
>>to send the final documents to him electronically.
>>
>>When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a computer and has
>>no E-mail address, the insurance man is stunned, "What, you don't have
>>E-mail?  No computer?  No Internet?  Just think where you would be today if
>>you'd had all of that five years ago!"
>>
>>"Ha!" snorts the man. "If I'd had E-mail five years ago I would be sweeping
>>floors at Microsoft and making $5.35 an hour!"
>>
>>Which brings us to the moral of the story: Since you got this story by e-mail,
>>you're probably closer to being a janitor than a millionaire!
>>
>>Sadly, I received it also...
>>
>>--
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>Technically, I'm about one step away from that.  I'm a security officer.
>
>Don
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Hmm... as of 3/4/05 I have been unemployed.  I just read this today as 
my time spent reading email has gone by the way side.  Job hunting is a 
full-time job in itself!  Anyway... I'm downgrading all the amenities my 
family once enjoyed.  Will soon be borrowing my folks' dial-up service 
account.  I'm grateful to have friends that allow me to co-locate my 
server for a short time.  My email is safe for a while!  I am anxious in 
what God has out there waiting for me.  Also looking forward to the 
humbling lifestyle I had forgotten.  I have faith that God doesn't test 
nor tempt beyond what I can bear.  He has always provided and always 
supplied me with just what I need.  In everything I am thankful to God.

Thanks for your prayers.  God bless,
Warren Sanders