Article June 6, 1994 Issue

What Matters to You

It's not hopeless!

Julie Campbell Tatham

It was the end of May, and Cam still didn't have a job. "It's not my fault," he thought. "I've tried."

The previous summer he had worked at an Audubon camp, and he'd become a nature-study expert. He even had a certificate to prove it. During the holiday break, he thought he had landed a nice camp counselor job for the summer, but a last-minute change in camp management had suddenly left him jobless. All the other camp jobs had been snapped up long ago. He couldn't get another kind of job because he didn't have a way to get to and from work.

"It's hopeless, Mom!" Cam said. "I can't buy a car unless I have a job to earn the money. And I can't get a job unless I have a car."

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