A businessman who works in the toy industry lost his job and is almost at the end of his unemployment benefits and not too far from being homeless. He donned a sandwich board advertising his need for work and handed out resumes in Manhattan.

After nine fruitless months of looking for work, Paul Nawrocki turned to a Depression-era tactic to find a job.
Over the past few days the 59-year-old businessman has been walking the sidewalks of midtown Manhattan wearing a suit, a tie, and a large signs that reads, “Almost homeless.”
“My unemployment benefits are going to run out in less than a month. I was getting a little panicked and I didn’t know what to do,” said Nawrocki, who was laid off from his job at a toy company last February.

I’m betting that the job market is going to be so bad when I graduate in the spring that I’ll be forced to do the same thing. Though,I don’t hold out much hope of getting a job. I don’t think too many businesses are looking to hire a middle aged woman with a master’s in art and religion 🙂