Wanted...

What recovery?

Every hour or so I log into the only websites I know that list editorial jobs. There are no jobs.

There are no jobs for me, that is. There are jobs for all kinds of directors, managers and executives (of marketing, communications, development), and for people skilled at social media (all of them want social media), but there are no jobs for folks like me who just write and edit.

I do not want to manage. I do not want to coordinate. I do not want to direct. I do not want to be responsible for underlings or budgets or big pictures. I do not want to tweet or post things on Facebook. I just want to write and edit, preferably for an organization that is doing socially responsible work for the world.

I am a dinosaur. 

Every job posting I read yells out for employees who want to work under lots of pressure, put in marathon hours, produce with lightning speed, be flexible, passionate team players, content with little or loads of  direction: people with 20 years of experience who are 20 years old. The want ads reflect the  world. They want  speed, technological proficiency, stamina and ambition; people who are at home in cyberspace, conducting relationships in the ether. One ad, for a very famous nonprofit foundation, said candidates had to be willing to lift heavy boxes and spend time sitting in cramped spaces.

Seriously?