Rant #3,618: The Song Remains the Same

Today is the big day, as Donald Trump takes the oath as our 47th president.

I am hopeful that he will be a good president, and whether you like him or not, that is a hope we should all have.

The Israel-Hamas truce has happily taken effect, and while it isn't perfect, it will have to do for now ... but Israel must fully be on its guard, as remember, Hamas are terrorists, and cannot be trusted in any way, shape or form.

TiKTok is evidently still here, but honestly, I don't use it, never have knowingly gone onto it, and really don't care a smidgen about it.

My son continues to look for a new job, and whether Trump is president or TikTok exists or doesn't exist, his well being is my top priority.

Since last Tuesday, we have been all around town to help him find a job, we have called some agencies, and we have done just about everything we could do to get him another position.

Many retailers are not hiring now--right after the holidays is a slow time--and various organizations who are supposed to help people with disabilities have been ... well ... difficult, I think would be a nice way of saying it.

Moving from Nassau County into Suffolk County hasn't helped matters, and we have to take a pause on contacting these entities today, as Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a legal holiday, and these offices are closed.

I put up messages that he was looking for a job on a number of social media platforms, because that appears to be the thing to do today.

Well, the results have been mixed.

We have received a lot of good suggestions, but we also saw the negative side of all of this, too.

One respondent on a local message board said she had a job for my son, we quickly responded, and the woman not only hasn't answered us, she has seemingly vanished off the face of the earth.

You don't make promises you can't keep, and if this person would have just been honest with us about the availability of the position, it would have made all of us feel better.

Then we have the spammers ...

My original message was spammed, by somebody offering "nationwide" positions that can be done at home with big money ...

The person who posted this has no conscience, and doesn't care about anything but the amount of money they got paid to post this message about some phony position.

Yes, I reported the person, but the post remains, so I hope that people realize it is spam and just pass it by.

And through it all, my son is resilient.

He took out his anger on the pins in his bowling league this past weekend, rolling a 200 game.

Thst is the way to do it!

So while the world is changing today, my family's world remains the same.

My son will eventually find something, but I realize we are in for a long haul here, and there is very little we can do about it, except to continue what we have been doing.

Wish my son luck ... please, it is something he desperately needs.