kama'aina or a local

[dlnragent]

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Originally posted by macuu222

I applied on-line....Nope...no email. Like I said...I'm either under-qualified...or too old or both.

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I'm 56.........

[macuu222]

Yea..But I worked for one employer my whole life in State government....I have no experience at all working in a department store. Maybe "need" has something to do with it here. I really don't "need" this job. I just have alot of spare time on my hands and need a part time job doing something to fill the void. Oh well...I guess I can take up golfing...LOL

[macuu222]

But then again... I did tell my supervisor on the last day before retirement to "go f*** himself". I'm sure that may have played a part in my not getting a interview....LOL

[csgray]

Macuu222,
Have you thought about doing volunteer work? Find a need that matches your skill set and personal likes and do that for as many hours a week as you want. It can be every bit as satisfying as working for a paycheck and if anyone gives you a hard time you can just walk. There are so many unmet needs here, there has to be something you can find that you would enjoy. The volunteer work I did when my kids were still at home led directly to my current profession, which I love; I never would have even thought of being a teacher if I hadn't been a volunteer coordinator at our neighborhood HS first.

Love your parting message to the boss, my husband worked for a city government for 13 years and says it almost ruined him as a productive person. He gave his supervisor a similar message once we knew we were staying in Hawaii for sure (he was on a leave of absence when we first came).

Carol

[macuu222]

@ CSgray... I have looked into Volunteering. But believe it or not...even the places that interest me either had more volunteers than they needed or they didn't want to take on the liability...or they didn't care to have a senior "import" on their crew (they didn't say that...but that was the impression I got).

[dmbwest]

Side note to Carol,

A similar thing is happening to me while helping the kids. Highlight of my day is to go in and help.
Is it too late to start over ?

aloha,
pog

[csgray]

Pog,
It's never too late this side of the grave, there was a man in my Masters cohort who was becoming a special education teacher at 65.

Carol

[Kelena]

The difference between local and kama'aina is perhaps best illustrated by watching the musical "South Pacific". Bloody Mary is a local, Nellie Forbush (naive, blonde, perky, from Little Rock Arkansas) is a Malihini and world-worry Emile de Becque, the ex-patriot French plantation owner with a dark past and two children of mixed race is a kama'aina, or at least his children are.

When the shoe is on the other foot, we tend to notice these things. We ignore them otherwise.

[dmbwest]

Mahalo Carol,

The more I get involved, the more devoted I become to my son and his generation.

aloha,
pog

[Midnight Rambler]

FWIW, it's not much different in a lot of other places. In Maine, even if you moved there 20 years ago from Massachusetts, you're "from away".