Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio, Hey listeners.
Speaker 1: The following is a bite sized version of an episode
Speaker 1: of On the Job, a podcast from Express Employment Professionals
Speaker 1: that shares the experiences of everyday Americans finding their life's work.
Speaker 1: These clips can be humorous and heartwarming, sometimes both at
Speaker 1: the same time, and they're always insightful.
Speaker 2: Enjoy Welcome back to On the Job. Can you believe
Speaker 2: we're at episode seven already? Where does the time go? Well,
Speaker 2: after all these wonderful profiles of people in the midst
Speaker 2: of their careers, we thought we'd switch things up just
Speaker 2: a bit for this episode and take a look at
Speaker 2: the challenges that many of us face one looking for
Speaker 2: a job. So today we're going to hear about one
Speaker 2: man's search for work and how that path to employment
Speaker 2: helped him to discover a whole new approach to life.
Speaker 2: Let's face it, looking for a job sucks. It does.
Speaker 2: It's a painful experience in so many ways. It's a
Speaker 2: moment of humility, of anxiety, and depending on how much
Speaker 2: money you have saved from the last time you worked,
Speaker 2: oftentimes it's a moment of sheer desperation. Whether you're searching
Speaker 2: online or in the newspaper, or driving around town looking
Speaker 2: for now hiring signs and handing out resumes. Searching for
Speaker 2: a job literally begins to feel like a job itself,
Speaker 2: and one man who knows exactly how that goes is
Speaker 2: Leon Albritton.
Speaker 3: There's a job, looking for a job.
Speaker 2: And if you're like Leon who doesn't live in a
Speaker 2: big city, your options are that much harder because.
Speaker 3: You have to go real far to get something you
Speaker 3: know in that way gains it.
Speaker 2: And then even if you get lucky and find a
Speaker 2: gig that sounds of interest, you've got to go through
Speaker 2: the whole application process, which means updating your resume, writing
Speaker 2: a cover letter, reaching out to the hiring person, and
Speaker 2: half the time, maybe way more than half the time,
Speaker 2: after all that work, nothing, and you can't help but
Speaker 2: think that maybe that application you've just spent all that
Speaker 2: time working on wasn't even red. But fortunately there are
Speaker 2: places like Express and people like Olivia Merhrifeld.
Speaker 4: And I am the operations manager for the Vaporaiso Indiana
Speaker 4: and Shareable Indiana Express offices, and.
Speaker 2: Olivia totally knows how hard it is to get a
Speaker 2: job because prior to working at Express, she was in
Speaker 2: the exact same position that Leon was in.
Speaker 4: And you get so caught up in applying for jobs
Speaker 4: online or using those different avenues you so many times
Speaker 4: don't ever get to speak to a real person. You're
Speaker 4: submitting resume after resume after resume.
Speaker 2: But fortunately for both Leon and Olivia, they called their
Speaker 2: local Express office.
Speaker 4: I came into Express, had my interview. They ended up
Speaker 4: placing me at a property management company where I was
Speaker 4: the leasing agent, and I was there about five years.
Speaker 2: Well, Olivia got lucky with that first job. Leon was
Speaker 2: having a harder go of it. How many different jobs
Speaker 2: did they try to get you in? It? Over a dozen?
Speaker 3: Right? What on that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did you ever get discouraged going after all these different
Speaker 2: jobs and them not working out?
Speaker 3: It was some days, man, I was I was feeling
Speaker 3: just like you said too. It was heultlessly. It was stressful, man.
Speaker 2: Leon was definitely willing to put in the effort. He
Speaker 2: went to job after job, showing up ready to work.
Speaker 4: He was always willing to go and always willing to
Speaker 4: try something new, even if he was going into something
Speaker 4: that he had never done before, he was always willing
Speaker 4: to give it a shot.
Speaker 3: He wasn't easy sewing up job man, they just send
Speaker 3: me too.
Speaker 2: Leon acknowledges that they were hard jobs, but if we're
Speaker 2: being honest here, he puts the blame mostly on himself
Speaker 2: because at that time in his life, Leon turned to alcohol.
Speaker 2: But after all the jobs that didn't work out, Leon
Speaker 2: has finally found the job for him. Working in the
Speaker 2: industrial industry for the last seven months has given Leon
Speaker 2: not only an income, but a healthy routine and a
Speaker 2: sense of purpose. Like all of us, he has his days,
Speaker 2: has afternoons when the clock drags, and mornings when he
Speaker 2: just doesn't want to get out of bed. But then
Speaker 2: he reminds himself how far he's come and how hard
Speaker 2: he and the folks that Express have worked to get
Speaker 2: him where he is today.
Speaker 3: Express ball feedback and still a human again. That's the
Speaker 3: way I'm gonna put it. They gave him my life back.
Speaker 2: For on the job. I'm Avery Thompson.
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