Show job hunting girl over 30 has competition this week a girl over 30 came j JUST to me in sheer desperation she needed a job and get one 1 I am a secretary she said W with ith eight years of experience here and there im not keen about secretarial ret arial work but ill take any job I 1 simply have got to work yet ev ery place I 1 apply they more or less tell me they want a younger girl what shall I 1 do it is quite obvious why the younger girl Is preferred she asks a smaller salary she is more easily trained to the work she has no home ties to distract her during the day and usually she Is more attractive because she is about 10 years youn younger gerl all AD in au all she is stiff competition for the older girl if the girl who sought my advice vice had asked me for a job I 1 would not have given her one why first of all she bad let herself grow discouraged cou raged I 1 know it easy to show enthusiasm when your stomach wants food and your room rent Is due but where will she get by showing her troubles to a prospective employer he has his own he will hire good spirits more quickly than experience he want to look up from a knotty problem and see a drab dis heartened female dragging herself around his office does he im not keen about sec ret arial work she had said well just too bad if she wants a job as a secre secretary taryl who Is going to hire her knowing she will have little interest in her work not a 0 bell syndicate service |