Riding out the job hunting rollercoaster

Note: A version of this appeared in the Detroit Free Press in July 2009.

There’s a man driving around town with cardboard taped to his car doors advertising his job availability and skills — the “Will Work for Food” guy on the street corner gone mobile.

I didn’t resort to putting handmade signs on my car. But in a few months of actively looking for a job, I tried just about everything else.