When it's your job to help others find jobs, retirement isn't an option

When it's your job to help others find jobs, retirement isn't an... (Added: June 19, 2009)

Former assistant director of local workforce center is back to work less than one month after retiring during times of record-high unemployment in eastern South Carolina. (more)

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When it's your job to help others find jobs, retirement isn't an option

Susan Carter, who has worked for more than 30 years with the S.C. Employment Security Commission, talks with Leslie Brown, who just recently lost his job.

By: Rusty Ray | SCNOW
Published: June 19, 2009

It's Susan Carter's job to help others find jobs.

In fact, you could say it's her passion.

SATE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE

SC unemployment rate hits record 12.1 percent
South Carolina's unemployment rate rose to a record 12.1 percent in May with payroll losses soaring in the construction and tourism industries, the Employment Security Commission reported Friday.

Carter retired after more than 30 years of work in local Employment Security Commission offices in January. At the time, she was assistant director of the Workforce Center in Marion.

By the end of February, Carter was back at work inside the ESC office in Conway.

"You don't ever really know when it will be you sitting across the desk, and someone talking to you," Carter said on Friday, as she looked over the latest unemployment figures from the state.

Carter works every day with people who have just lost their job, or are new to the area, and need to find work in an unfamilar place.

"It's very, very difficult, especially when you have someone sit at your desk and they're very down, very depressed," she said. "You try to bring them up."

Carter is working temporarily at the Conway office.