He continued to get enough freelance work to sustain a communications consulting business for nearly four years before he ended up acceptinga full-time position as marketing director.
Rajoy is in a tough position as he made pledges to his constituency to make the necessary cuts without accepting aid and the tough measures that come with it.
In job interviews following a rapid resignation, "you should admit that you didn't do enough homework before accepting your last position without blaming anyone there, " says Laurence Stybel, co-founder of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire, a Boston leadership consultancy.