I know we still have a lot of former San Bernardino County Jobs and Employment Services Department Employment Services Specialists reading the blog. How many of you remember the days before TAD decimated our department when we went through programs to help make us better employees rather than destroy our ability to get our job done?   Anyone remember the poverty training we had to go through?  Somewhere I still have the book describing the survival skills necessary to be living in a lower-class situation, a middle-class situation, and an upper-class situation.

Do remember the questions we had to answer?

• Do you know how to get the executive membership at the country club?
• Do you know how to keep your laundry from being stolen at the laundromat?
• Do you know how to pick a daycare center?
• Do you know the time of day stores deposit their expired food in the dumpster?
• Do you know how to get your child into the most exclusive private schools?
• Do you know where the food banks are located and when they give out food?
• Do you know how to hire a maid?
• Can you tell the difference between silk, linen and cotton and how to care for each?
• Do you know how to get your children to fall asleep when they are still hungry?

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