Jobless U.K. Man Uses His Porsche as Self Advertisement

Have you lost your job? Are you having trouble finding work? Maybe you’re just not going about things the right way.

Andrew Blair, a 28-year-old United Kingdom man, wrote his cellular phone number on his white Porsche Boxster S with permanent marker just hours after he had gotten laid off. What better self-marketing is there?

He drove home in rush-hour traffic with the words “made redundant today” and “project construction manager” on the back of his car. Mr. Blair got calls from more than a dozen potential new employers.

The scene is reminiscent of The Great Depression, when jobless people walked the streets wearing billboards and placed signs looking for work on their cars.

His advertisement is not totally free, however. He is expecting the re-spray of his paintwork to cost about £1,000.

“Perhaps it was a moment of madness but it struck me as the best way advertise,” he said. “I’m hoping the right person will see it and give me a job.”

Mr. Blair has also seen thirteen of his friends lose their jobs in the marketing, PR, fashion and media sectors during the last two weeks.

He transferred to the Middle East in June 2007 from Bristol, UK. The new job earned him three times his UK salary, all of which was tax free.

Despite gloomy prospects in Dubai as the credit crunch hits Mr Blair insists he has no intention of heading back to the UK where the job market is worse.

He said: “Many of my mates are packing up and leaving. But I wouldn’t return if you paid me. There are still prospects here and it’s a thriving city packed with bars and clubs.