After the welfare office, I went to the local public office dedicated to finding folks employment. Let's call it EmployFolks.
They had a website and I'd applied to a job through it Saturday, but I guess it turns out that there was a different site. I ended up looking like a jerk in front of an old lady as I tried to log onto my account that didn't exist.
We eventually got it sorted, and I learned I could sign up for a resume class and even print resumes with them, saving me costs on printing things from the library. They're still all the way downtown, but it's a new resource.
In that same building, there was a Community Public Relations office. I don't know how else to explain what this place is. Word from my friend Eric—I'll talk more about him in a bit—is that they give out bus passes towards the end of the month. Bus passes cost around $36 and they make riding the bus within the city free.
He didn't know the times though, so I volunteered to look into it and maybe we could both get one on the available dates. I found out they were giving some out on Friday and let him know when I got back to Purgatory Shelter that night.
It was the ultimate side quest.
With the fresh hope that something besides getting around town was going to be the straw that broke my financial back, I began walking over to put in my volunteer hours.
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