People often ask me why I spend time writing for Forbes and elsewhere when my main job is investing in stocks.

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My main job for Forbes these days is writing about careers.

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He ended up giving me an internship, which is the first time I had a job programming and has kind of been my main mentor ever since.

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Even later when family obligations led me to my longest job, as a science editor at the MIT Press, my main enthusiasm, done after hours and gratis, was in using my skills to help out projects having a chance of bringing about social change.

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Here in Ann Arbor, I was hostess at a long-gone bar on South U., worked at a store that sold Greek stuff to the sorority and fraternity set, and in probably my worst job ever was a floater at the Mongolian BBQ on Main Street, where I rotated between washing dishes and filling up the buffet with raw meat.

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But in my experience as a career coach, the main reason that people are not finding a job is not because there are no jobs.

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