I'm in a bad mood today due to the fact that the county Dislocated Worker counselor I was matched with, refuses to discuss with me a new employment plan, b/c I want to have the county pay my tuition for something like a 2-year nursing assistant training program, since I am nowhere closer to finding a job. The temp agency recruiters have not connected me to any assignments, and I will not lower myself to working a minimum wage job b/c that's not something I can pay bills or rent doing. I've spent the past two months taking careerforce classes to update my computer skills but that's it. I can't update anything else without getting more current work experience. Very much a chicken and egg problem; the chicken: employers and recruiters view my work experience as outdated (re: age bias discrimination) so they won't even interview me for jobs I apply for. The egg: I can't get more updated work experience without first being hired.