A homeless American with a college degree went on the highway and received 200 job invitations
On Friday morning, homeless web developer David Casares woke up in a park in Mountain View, California, put on a beautiful shirt and tie, took out a hand-written cardboard banner and went to a nearby highway.
It turned out to be the perfect job search strategy.
A photo taken by passers-by on which he stands under a traffic sign soon became viral on Twitter. By Saturday, he received more than 200 job offers.
“Google reached out to me,” said the amazed 26-year-old.
“So many other companies. Pandora. Lots of startups,” he added.
“The product manager at Bitcoin.com was wondering if I could work remotely or if I wanted to move to Tokyo,” he said with surprise in his voice. “But tonight I will return to my bench in Rengstorf Park.”
Casares grew up in the border town of Laredo, Texas.
He earned a bachelor's degree in management information systems from Texas A&M University, had a good job as a web developer at General Motors in Austin, but then cashed out his 401(k) and went to Silicon Valley to pursue the dream of his own tech startup—only to June he no longer had money.
“I’ve been living in my car for over a year now,” he said of his Ford Transit Connect van. - Nobody hired. I had an interview with Apple in January, but the work was all over the country.”
He completed several orders for the design of websites and logos as a freelancer. But a month ago a van was taken from him, and since then he has slept in a park.
On Friday, he dressed as best as he could — “to be presentable to my future employers,” he explained — and headed out with a cardboard banner and a stack of resumes in a FedEx envelope.
“It was an instant decision,” he said of his breakthrough job search. “If it didn’t work, I would have returned home and given up on my dream.”
He stood in El Camino Real and San Antonio Road for several hours when a passing Jasmine Scofield stopped and asked if she could photograph him and publish the photo on the Internet.
Casares agreed.
“Today I saw how this young homeless person asked people to take a resume, he does not ask for money. Please, RT, we will help David! ”
By the middle of Saturday's day, a tweet about Casares and his resume was shared over 50 000 times and liked almost 70 000 times. And at the time of this writing, the post shared Bole 137 thousands of times and liked more than 220 thousands of times.
“It’s happening very quickly and I’m shocked,” he said. “I didn’t expect such an answer.” It kind of exploded."
Stories when people cannot find work and become homeless or live in cars are not uncommon. Previously, ForumDaily I told about a couple that works on Facebook but lives in a two-car garage with three children.
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