GLENDALE, AZ — After being laid off from his $70,000 a year job at a Fortune 500 company last June, Mark Cooper took a job as a janitor making $12 an hour, according to KNXV-TV.
The hardest part in the adjustment phase for Cooper is not the pay decrease, but rather overcoming the stigma attached with being a janitor, the story stated.
Cooper said: "They realize you're a janitor and it's almost like you don't count and that is so wrong."
The job provides good benefits and Cooper is grateful to have any job at all, the story noted.
Cooper told KNXV-TV: "The pay isn't anything outstanding but it helps meet our bills and has benefits for us. [My wife and I] are spending more time together. We're closer and stronger and our faith has grown immensely."
This trend of taking any job available simply to survive is being seen more and more often in today's uncertain and struggling job market.
Friday, March 6, 2009
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