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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you started a nonprofit, can't you find references surrounding that?

I'd think that would trump the PTA.

TBH, unless you're high ranking in the PTA - MCCPTA - people overlook that position.[/quote]

OP here.  Well regarding my non-profit, it's like starting a small business.  There's just me and a few volunteers.  The PTA is just preschool PTA so not very impressive either.

I probably won't end up getting a job offer for this job but it's a wakeup call to start professional level volunteering so that I can get some up to date references and start reapplying to jobs a year from now.[/quote]

I'm not getting this. The job you've applied for pays less than TEN DOLLARS AN HOUR, and yet it requires THREE professional references?? I don't know if my kid would take a job that pays less than $10 per hour!!

I do find it odd that someone you worked with 4 years ago doesn't remember you??!! I worked with people 10 years ago, and they remember me just fine. I've contacted people I knew in grad school, and they remembered me fine too.

OP, you need to scan your horizons a bit wider and see if you can find someone who likes and remembers you and knows your abilities and can talk positively about you. Surely there are a few people like that. Use them as references. [/quote]

OP here.  I don't know how many references the job requires, I just want to be prepared with them when I go to the interview in case they ask about them then.  I don't have 3 references, I'll only have 2.  Ideally I would have 3 (isn't that what most jobs want?)

Yes, it's true that the job doesn't pay well.  But it's part-time and family friendly and I see it as a good stepping stone to a better paying job later.  I never made more than 35K when I worked full-time anyway, which is why I resigned to SAH.  Also, we don't need my salary anyway (husband is a law firm partner) so I'm not counting on this job to pay the bills.  It's more to get back into the working world, be part of a team again, and use my skills again, which I feel are deteriorating from my 4 years being home.

The co-workers I contacted remembered me, but they said they didn't remember my work well enough to be a reference.  Makes sense to me, it's been 4 years.  How would they remember what I worked on/the quality of my work?  I barely remember what I worked on.[/quote]

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