EnergY News Blast - Tough Job Market?
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His mission: to work 50 different jobs in all 50 states.
Daniel Seddiqui, 27, said the resume wasn't happening. The recent college grad had flunked no less than 40 job interviews for work in his field of economics.
Rather than give up, he dove in, and to date has already earned his keep in 45 of the 50 United States, working, for example, as a marketing specialist in one state.
Tuesday night, he did it again, working for the first time ever as a first-base coach for the Brockton Rox baseball team, which called him after hearing about his 50-state goal.
"I just left my driveway with no money. I was negative $65,000 from school loans and I bought my car right before I left. And, just made it all work. I had no other options," Seddiqui said.
The public seems to love his gumption. His schtick has proven to be a real resume-booster. He's been a sugar-maker, worked on an Indianapolis race track pit crew and done a stint as a meteorologist.
How did he do as a first-base coach?
"We put a lot of pressure on the first-base coach to get us some runs and he hasn't gotten any," Rox pitching coach John Kelly said.
Seddiqui, however, said he's on top in the game of life.
"I've probably made from $50,000 to $60,000 this year. And I have saved all of it. Three-thousand dollars in one week when I was in Minnesota medical device manufacturing. And the lowest is probably $100, but I was working with Amish people building furniture," he said.
What has he proved?
"That you can land a job and it's all about persistence and networking and that's what I've been doing," Seddiqui said.
He said one of the ways he's able to keep expenses down is to stay with host families. This week the host family is Brockton Rox owner and former Brockton Mayor Jack Units.
He said almost every employer has offered him full-time work but he wants to keep moving to complete his 50 state, 50 jobs goal. Next week, he'll be in New Hampshire working for the Democratic party and after that he'll haul some nets up in Maine as a lobsterman.
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