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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My company is interested in hiring a couple of people to job-share the receptionist position. We're thinking 5 hours each, each day-- a 9-2 shift and a 2-7 shift. SAHMs interested in returning to the workforce would be ideal. We're a small company, very friendly and flexible, and looking for people with a high degree of professionalism and initiative.  If anyone is interested, please post your email and I'll send you some more information. [/quote]

I've been home for 15 years. I would die of boredom working as a receptionist! I'm sure I'd be great at it - for the first couple of weeks, maybe even for a month. After that I'd be so bored, I don't think I'd be able to get out of bed in the morning to come in to work.

I have not lost my skills. I've done a ton of volunteer work in my field, unpaid, but still, I've done a professional job. Yet now when I send out my resume, I get nothing. I am working full time at three volunteer jobs, and hoping to make some connections that will help me find paid work.

I don't think it's my age or lack of paid work. I think it's the recession more than anything. I get lots of praise for the volunteer work I do, and I can see that I'm valued and clearly more skilled at doing what I do than all of the other volunteers and some of the paid professionals in the organizations where I volunteer. They see that too. But they have no paid jobs, which is why they need volunteers.

It's the recession, stupid. [/quote]

I don't think that it is JUST the economy and according to the experts, we are no longer in a recession.  Being out of the paid workforce for 15 years is a very long time and you will probably have to start at a lower level and while being a receptionist is not the most exciting position, it is a start.  I think the PP who posted about this opportunity is really nice for letting people know about this job share and I'm sure, she will get lots of feedback.  I was out of the workforce for a little over a year staying home with my son and I still had to take a pay cut when I got back to work.  It took me about six months to find a suitable position and I'm very grateful for my job and the paycheck.  I would even take a receptionist position just to get back in and I would be the best receptionist that the company ever hired.  You never know what opportunity you will encounter while working as a receptionist for the company.  Good luck to you![/quote]

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