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Who: Eiji and Ankh
What: Prayer # 11
Where: Out and around Tokyo
When: April 4
Warnings: Nothing off the top of my head

The prayer was a plea for help. The man who had made it at his wits end with his search for employment. No matter what he did, no matter how much he searched, he could never seem to find a place that would hire him. And that is where Eiji and Ankh came in because the prayer was to the god Fortuna. They were to help the man find a job and give him back some confidence in himself.

It sounded simple enough but they would have to be very thorough in their search along with finding the jobs that were within the man's skill set. Eiji didn't waste any time in starting the search when he and Ankh made their way to the Near Shore, searching for places that were advertising that they needed more help while the rest of the world passed by all around them.

When the first thirty minutes of searching didn't turn anything it up it became obvious this was going to take a while.

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He didn't really get why anyone would want to pray for this kind of thing to him, but Ankh went along with the whole thing, taking a glance at how the guy was searching for a job and then giving one of his typical sniffs of disapproval. Sure, he had gone through the usual methods, but did he go to any in depth studies of the market and where he should be looking? Ankh did not think so.

There were papers with jobs listed, circled and then crossed off. There were a few fliers that had been crumpled on top of the newspapers. There were a couple print outs of even more job listings and Ankh shifted through the debris, trying to get a feel of what this person was looking for, and coming up with that they were just trying anything and everything.

"Do they just toss a dart at the board and hope for the best?" He let the papers go tumbling out of his hands and started poking around in their personal files. "There's not even a resume here."

And Eiji gathers the scattered papers up to stack them neatly and set them aside. He looks over to Ankh when he's done, "Mm, it's a little bit like that. Applying to other potential jobs can help the chances of being hired."

He starts to sort through some of the more recent ads. Maybe these hadn't been filled up yet by people scrambling to apply and have a source of income. Eiji diligently reads through them, trying to find the ones that could be the big break that the person wanted. Though the resume would certainly help...

"Are you sure there isn't a resume there?"

"There is 'help the chances of getting hired' and then there is 'I'll just apply to anything that's open ladeda'."

He waved a hand irritably at the stacks of papers Eiji was sorting and continued to poke through the files and letters, searching for anything that could be a resume or even an attempt at one. He was glad that they weren't exactly noticeable by people and that most people did not have any safeguards that a pile of coins could slip through, otherwise the pair of them would had to wait to get into this living space earlier. While Eiji might had protested Ankh breaking in, he didn't do it with the usual vigor, which made Ankh happy.

"I would have found it by now," he added, and then let those papers fall before turning to the last place he needed to check before really getting to work, the laptop. "Maybe it's saved on here."

Yes, Ankh breaking in had indeed been something he had protested. Because that was a person's living space and hard to be noticeable or not they could still interact and had some effect on things in the physical world. It was only by chance Eiji managed to get the occupant's attention and quickly say they were there to help him with his problem.

"Where?" Eiji turns just as Ankh drops more papers that scattered on their descent down. All it takes is for him to spot the laptop and he catches on to what Ankh was going to do.

Ankh turned on the machine and went through the password easy. He opened a few files, clicking his tongue at a couple of them before finding a half-finished resume. He stared at it for a moment and then sighed, shaking his head.

"Well. This needs a lot of work. Eiji, find out if he has school papers and former paychecks from other places of work."

... As long as it was just the resume Ankh would look at and nothing else it would be fine. Ankh does get one long stare from Eiji though for the hacking.

"All right. I'll go ask him about it." Like they could have done for the resume too. But he goes to get the information that would help them narrow down jobs that would be feasible for the man to obtain.

He had to take a look to find the resume, it wasn't like the guy actually labeled the files in a fashion that made sense. As it was, the whole thing looked like someone was trying to be funny and show off a sense of humor they were never born with. Ankh huffed and pulled out his phone to look up a few proper resume examples and then deletes what there was written done.

"Also make sure that he has some normal paper for his printer. Patterned paper is fine for personal stuff but not for a business thing."

He double-checked his minutes while he waited for Eiji to get back to him and heaved a sigh. He was going to do something about that soon.

Eiji hears it and makes note of it as he makes his temporary exit from the room. While Ankh does his thing, Eiji is gone for a god fifteen minutes before making his return with the information that was needed. Which consisted of what looked to be three pieces of paper.

"Here, and there is normal paper in the printer."

"Can't be too careful," he muttered and took the notes.

He really wasn't sure how Eiji managed to actually talk to the guy to get this stuff, or what the guy was told about their appearances, but he was going to sit here and concentrate on just typing this out like one of the resumes he had looked up. It had to be simple and to the point without being totally without personality, and while Ankh was ready to just toss everything at Eiji to do it, he knew that the shinki was not that comfortable with computers.

He never was okay with them in the past. Eiji might have been okay with a simple phone, but setting him in front of a computer was just asking for trouble. So Ankh was just going to type it up and print out a few test sheets before he was satisfied and did a few real ones.

"Okay. So a resume will help tip the balance for a better job, and then we need to just shove them into places along with the applications and go from there."

Eiji wasn't sure how it worked either since, as he had come to learn, people didn't even notice they were there most of the time. He stays close by as Ankh takes it upon himself to write out the resume himself and watches.

"We should make sure that they are places that don't require having had experience in a specific field."

"He has some experiences that we can also use. I know he says he has hit them all, but if he didn't have the right selling point to use, they would have skipped him."

He's been reading it up in between waiting on the information and actually taking this job. One of the things that he should be good at was at least looking things up to give a little good fortune this guy's way. Ankh went back to the computer, closing the Word program and opening the browser.

"Let's pull up some job listings and see what's up with them."

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