Being homeless a struggle — even with a $100,000 job offer

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http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/being-homeless-a-struggle-even-with-a-100000-job-offer/

By Danny Westneat
The Seattle Times
December 6, 2015

When I first meet James Simmons, he’s at the state welfare office trying 
to get some more food stamps. He survives on those, along with some free 
meals he gets at the homeless shelter, where he lives.

It’s a jarring background to what I’m there to talk to him about. Which is 
that he just got offered a six-figure job as a security-systems analyst.

“The job only exists in there,” he says, pointing at a beat-up laptop 
computer. “What exists in there doesn’t help me eat.”

Simmons, 55, lives at the Compass Center’s night shelter near Seattle 
Center, beneath a church parking garage. He’s got a bunk in a room with 60 
other men. He’s been homeless, off and on, for the past seven years.

Yet on his laptop he shows me the interviews and job leads he’s had only 
in the past week. IBM. Wells Fargo. Frontier Airlines. T-Mobile. Experian. 
Daimler Chrysler. All interested in tapping his decades of experience as a 
certified information systems auditor, which he describes as “basically a 
cyber-cop.”

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