Hi,
I haven't had a job in just under 17 years and I want to build up enough of a work-history so when I'm in my 60's I can collect social security and therefore I was wondering whether or not when I start applying for jobs and lie to potential employers by making them think that I wasn't just taking it easy on account of how I used to buy fixer-upper houses with a friend of mine whose an electrician and that together we do repairs on the houses and then sell them for a profit or would they consider this a form of unemployment?
In other words, will people who interview me for lab technician or proofreader or bookkeeper jobs want me to have been recently employed at a company or will they consider someone who buys houses and busts their gut fixing them up a hard enough worker for them?
If my memory serves me, I read online somewhere that if you lie and say that you worked at some company that went out of business, that there is a way of verifying through some kind of background check online that this isn't true. Therefore I think that if someone who has been unemployed for a while wants to be sure that they can trick everyone into thinking that they are workers, the person needs to make believe s/he is self-employed.
Thank you in advance.