Letters: Dec. 15, 2003

Bravo for your salute to American ingenuity and entrepreneurial skill that your story "Now Hiring" so convincingly demonstrates [Nov. 24]! Reading about the unemployed who are successfully taking risks and adapting to career changes is such a contrast to listening to the noisy strikers and whining demonstrators who seem to be everywhere these days. Your article showed people unafraid of a radical career change supported in part by American self-confidence as well as our sense of mobility. Seeing new jobs, even if temporary or minimum-wage work, as a challenge is an American answer to dreary job entrenchment and shows our ability...

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