Mom offers $500 to get daughter a job

“I’m offering $500 cash the minute she gets hired for $15 an hour or more as an executive assistant or an office job."

By Charyn Pfeuffer - MSN Living Editor Mar 6, 2013 7:50PM

One Southern California woman is hell-bent to get her 36-year-old daughter a job. After a nine month stretch of unsuccessful job-hunting, Linda Smith is offering $500 in cold hard cash to anyone who takes her daughter Lisa’s resume and gets her employed, reports the Press-Enterprise.

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“After so much trying and trying and trying, I started acquiescing,” Smith told the Press-Enterprise.

The mother spent Friday morning, March 1, standing on the sidewalk at McCall Boulevard and Bradley Road in Menifee, Calif. holding up a sign saying she would give $500 to anybody who can help her daughter, land a job.

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Since 1996, Lisa had been receiving a stipend from the Veteran’s Administration as her mother’s full-time caregiver. But a doctor recently deemed Linda well enough to live alone and Lisa’s income terminated. Linda’s motherly instincts kicked in and she knew she had to help her daughter who’d been off the job market for nearly two decades.

“With all she does for me, I want to do something for her,” Linda told the Press-Enterprise.

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Mar 6, 2013 9:09PM

A true parent will pull out all the stops to help her/his child. This mother deserves congratulations, not condemnation.

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rickytickytock

Mar 6, 2013 9:09PM

Stipend for 17 years from VA to take care of her mother who is now well enough to stand in the street holding a hire my daughter sign??? Does it never end!!! Hope they are missing some valuable information in this article.

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dream big 208

Mar 6, 2013 9:10PM

OMG PLEASE people. You do not know what the daughter is doing? She could have put in 200 applications for HERSELF already. You do not know enough about the situation to be bashing this mother and/or her daughter!

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Trudy P

Mar 6, 2013 9:06PM

She hasn't held a job since she was 16 and now she's 36 years old? Good luck! It's hard enough to find a job with a full resume and no breaks in work history. Thankfully I kept the one I have and don't plan to look again any time soon.

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Wazit2ya

Mar 6, 2013 9:14PM

Send Me the check, momma.

Menifee, CA has a Work Force job assistance program... all a person has to do is get off their butt and apply.
They will even help Veterans!
Right now, TODAY.. there are 2 job listings for a caregiver, 1 in Menifee and 1 in Sun City.
THERE, YOU made the offer, I did the leg work;, NOW, Have your little princess do the rest.
Contact my email for where to send the $500.

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John Fulton

Mar 6, 2013 9:12PM

She's 36 and her mom has to do the scouting? I think I know what the problem is.

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Nvflash

Mar 6, 2013 9:06PM

Mom better come up with more than that if her daughters job experience consists of over 16 years of taking care of Mom at home. Send her to school and put the money to good use or send her to McDonald's they'll hire anyone that can pass a drug test.