The Secret To Sucess – Wash!

I’ve got the feeling I’m going to be a little brain dead this week so for some reason this caught my eye.

How many people bemoan that they can’t get a job, they can get ahead, they can’t do this or that.

It’s everybody else’s fault of course…or fate…or the position of the stars… or the devil. (Yes, I asked a fellow with 2 flat tires how that happened. His immediate response was “the devil!” so it must be true. But this is also the guy whom I asked about all the dents on his truck. He said whenever he was driving through a wooded lot the trees had a nasty habit of hitting his vehicle!)

But just in case there’s a chance, try getting up one day and washing. It’s been proven in Germany.

Frank’s luck began to change on Tuesday, when he was cruising through a Christmas market in the city of Wiesbaden, wearing grubby clothes, a pair of nose rings and a thatch of partially bleached, punk-inspired hair.

The 37-year-old, who has been without work for six years, chanced upon Kurt Beck, chairman of the Social Democrats – the center-left half of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s federal coalition.

Beck was a perfect target for Frank’s frustration, and he harangued the politician for what he saw as the failure of economic reforms aimed at lifting people like himself – a construction worker – out of unemployment and into a better life.

Beck’s retort? “If you would just wash and shave, you’d find a job, too.”

Two days later, Frank lopped off his locks, shaved his dark beard and removed his nose rings. Then he organized a news conference.

“I am ready to change,” Frank told reporters, saying he was fed up with living off handouts from the unemployment office. “I’ll take any job.”

Frank instantly became the talk of German media, with one newspaper splashing his before-and-after photos on its front page Friday.

And his makeover seems to have worked. Beck plans to present Frank with several job offers next week from construction, house painting and cleaning companies.

Upon hearing that washing and asking for work solved this individual’s unemployment crisis, politicans immediately went to work “soul searching” and “working harder” to solve Germany’s unemployment problem in case an epidemic of personal responsibility broke out and people began to realize that politicans were the problem more often than the solution.