2011.02.06: February 6, 2011: Morocco RPCV Linley Wartenberg has taken just about any job she can find since returning to Florida in late 2009 after a two-year stint with the Peace Corps
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2011.02.06: February 6, 2011: Morocco RPCV Linley Wartenberg has taken just about any job she can find since returning to Florida in late 2009 after a two-year stint with the Peace Corps
Morocco RPCV Linley Wartenberg has taken just about any job she can find since returning to Florida in late 2009 after a two-year stint with the Peace Corps
She worked as a part-time park supervisor in Tallahassee during baseball season last year, and when that job ended, she worked a couple of months at a YMCA camp that paid $37 a day. She was a prep cook at a dude ranch in Wyoming, earning $8 an hour. More recently, she spent a couple of months working to establish a travel program in Morocco, where she was based during the Peace Corps.
Morocco RPCV Linley Wartenberg has taken just about any job she can find since returning to Florida in late 2009 after a two-year stint with the Peace Corps
Rate of under-utilized workers has nearly doubled statewide
By Jeff Burlew • senior government editor •
Published: February 06. 2011 2:00AM
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Linley Wartenberg has taken just about any job she can find since returning to Florida in late 2009 after a two-year stint with the Peace Corps.
She worked as a part-time park supervisor in Tallahassee during baseball season last year, and when that job ended, she worked a couple of months at a YMCA camp that paid $37 a day. She was a prep cook at a dude ranch in Wyoming, earning $8 an hour. More recently, she spent a couple of months working to establish a travel program in Morocco, where she was based during the Peace Corps.
Lately, she's been taking odd jobs with a former employer, working only a few hours a week cleaning an office building and stuffing envelopes. Were she not living with her parents in Havana, she would probably be homeless, she said.
"It's been very frustrating," said Wartenberg, who spent a decade working as an editorial and administrative assistant for the Associated Press in Detroit. "There are times when I'm very optimistic, and there are times when I'm really, really depressed."
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