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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have patchy work history or different careers, then to get your foot into the door, you have to craft your resume for the job. Cherry-pick the relevant work experience across previous jobs and show how it meets the current desired job requirement. All experience - volunteer, education and work - can be relevant, if it is speaking to the job requirement, pick out elements from it to see where it fully or even partially matches what the employer is looking for.

Finally, if you are creative and make and sell your wares, or you are a mom who is taking care of SN kids or family members etc, or just a person who loves the small town and its unique people, or loves to write children stories, or love to cook, love to teach, love to travel, restore old chandeliers, ... whatever your particular interest is - start cataloging it, start taking pictures, start a blog, start making videos etc.  You are full of wisdom and if you can create a service or catalog something and put it on the internet, then you are creating work history and relevant experience.  Even if your website does not get any traffic, you will be able to show to the employers - your writing skills, creativity, organization skill, marketing savvy, internet publishing savvy etc.

I know a person who went to Italy because her DH was posted there. She took a class in wine appreciation and when she returned to her own country she become a wine blogger and started a new career.  In a small town, without any avenues to get jobs, you can very easily start a town newsletter for free and then sell the idea to their chamber of commerce to showcase the town, area of interest, history, businesses etc...  Don't lose hope, there is a lot of work in this world and the work is ever increasing. The jobs may have gone away but the work remains.
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What a great post![/quote]

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