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

[Nigel Ridley]

Warren Sanders wrote:
> Don Parris wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:46:50 -0500, Fred A. Miller
>> <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> 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...
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>   
>>
>> Technically, I'm about one step away from that.  I'm a security officer.
>>
>> Don
>>  
>>
> 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
> 
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I'll be praying for you -- I know what it is to downgrade the amenities, 
we recently moved into our new house and have quite a bit to pay back to 
the kibbutz for the fittings etc. (they provide the four walls and the 
roof and about a third of what's needed to buy the rest).

Oh, BTW God doesn't tempt He just leads us into [sometimes hard] testing :-)

Blessings,

Nigel

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