Homeless Man, 26, Gets Hundreds Of Job Offers After Passing Out His Resume On Highway's Median
Source: People Magazine
A homeless man in Mountain View, California, is reportedly sifting through hundreds of job offers mere days after passing out his resume alongside a highway.
Wearing a suit and tie on Friday, 26-year-old David Casarez held up a sign at a median that read: “HOMELESS. HUNGRY 4 SUCCESS. TAKE A RESUME.” “This is my make it or break it moment,” Casarez told KNTV of what inspired his bold move. “I have to do something crazy.”
Casarez graduated with a degree in management information systems from Texas A&M University and worked as a General Motors web developer in Austin, Texas, the New York Post reports. But when he moved to California in hopes of creating a startup, he lost all of his money and the vehicle that he had been living in. He has been sleeping in a park ever since, he told the outlet.
His luck changed on Friday when a driver Jasmine Scofield passed by and asked if she could put his picture online. “Today I saw this young homeless man asking for people to take a resume rather than asking for money,” Scofield wrote on Twitter. “If anyone in the Silicon Valley could help him out, that would be amazing. Please RT so we can help David out!”...More..
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The tweet has more than 118,000 retweets and 186,000 likes. Casarez has received about 200 job offers, including from Google, Neflix and LinkedIn, according to a tweet by Scofield.
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initiative, even a 'bad hombre' blah blah Trump's great economy blah blah MAGA blah blah peace dividend with North Korea and tax cuts blah blah so we don't need food stamps anymore blah blah ... " 
"...is finding one!!" Agree with progree...been in IT/Engineering/Tech all my life, and I wish I had the opportunity to talk to this guy before he came to Silicone Gulch. I could have told him about how long it takes to get a decent job in a Tech Center city these days because of the following factors:
1, "The Purple Unicorn Syndrome": HR has turned into an exclusionary process. If you don't have exactly this, this, this and this, down the chute you go. They are here to exclude you and screen you out, rather than screen you in. In this way they demonstrate their critical need to the company, and ensure THEY don't get the boot when layoff time comes. Your resume winds up in the company resume bin, which I suspect is dev/null. But sometimes, Jove nods and they do land on the right person's desk, about 5% of the time. It's usually through networking or a headhunter gets a hold of you, which can be problematic too.
2. The proliferation of H1B Visa abuse that is rampant in the IT/Tech sector all over this country. There are so many insourcing companies it ain't even funny, and they've played havoc with the industry since the 1990's. A few years ago, down here, Disney tried to replace 500 IT workers with H1B workers, and then made them train their replacements as a condition of getting severance pay. That one backfired due to the media awaking from it's slumber, and Disney had to recant. The Mouse still has a black eye from the IT community for this. Don't blame the H1B Visa holders; they're just trying to escape from a life and environment most of us would last about 3 days in. But even when they get the job here (through hook or by crook with their outsourcing pirates), they wind up living five in an apartment and being paid 2/3 of what an American would need/get.
3. God help you if you're smart, over 40, and female in this "old boy's networking" biz. Only 17% of IT workers are female. I've personally seen applicants asked "what year they graduated in", strictly illegal and actionable under Calif. law. The labor board told the person I know, "Yeah, it happens, and in the tech sector seems to be the worst...It'll take at least a year if you file a complaint now. We're not swimming in personnel."
I've seen IT workers lose their job, all financial resources, their homes, and wind up homeless, just like this guy, but at 40, 50, 60 years old. The fact he's in his 20's is symptomatic of how sick the whole process has become.
Yeah, sure, the economy is great. Go try and support yourself with a Greeter job at Walmart, and live in the canyon behind it. The good, middle-class jobs are shrinking like mad and have been since 1980. And very few in the MSM talk about this. Orange Tiberius is much more intersting. (As someone at CBS said, "Trump may be bad for the country, but he's sure good for CBS!"
Enough. End rant. My first post, and I guess I came out swinging. Sorry for the length, but I've been meaning to join for years.
Pax Vobicum.
Be prepared for the inevitable
"I'm Spartacus". "No, I'm Spartacus!", "I'm Spartacus!", "I'm Spartacus!!" video. 
I only wish I was kidding. 
