Also, how do you reconcile 4 1/2 years working at McDonald's with "initiative?"
He's been working at one place for 4 1/2 years and that shows loyalty and either respect or trustworthiness. If he were a crappy employee (always late, stole, disrespectful to customers, etc) then he would have been fired in that time.
It's not much for resume padding for skills... but it at least gives him a leg up on all the other HS grads and dropouts that job-skip every 6 months because they get in fights with coworkers or their boss, sleep with coworkers and cause drama, or get in fights with customers.
It also shows that he only had a HS degree and entered the workforce, then discovered that he wanted more out of life after a couple years of that. He enrolled in school again. Very few people are able to do that, and I respect that. He's through his first semester, working on his second. I'd consider that a display of initiative.
He's a lib, yeah, and we all dislike libs on this forum... but he's young enough and from the little we can deduce about him, he can be salvaged to think for himself. If I were hiring for something suitable to his skills, I'd offer him a job.
I ROFL'ed at "I love you Barack" lady. What a 'tard.