Matters
The first day of work is like the first day of school
You’re nervous, you don’t know exactly where to go, you feel lost in the maze of cafeteria queues, and you don’t actually end up doing much work. And this first day was no exception.
I ran into someone I’ve seen before (only on the internet of all things; I must have better visual memory than […]
December chill
This is about the longest I have gone without updating my blog in some time — it’s mostly due to malaise over a number of things concurrently happening in my life.
I’ve been having a wee bit of writer’s block lately, which never used to stop me before (I would just resort to more Youtube video posts […]
It would be nice to have a job.
Just because stores are still opening and just because cranes are still moving downtown doesn’t mean we’re not having a tough time. I am a qualified, competent, smart person with 8 years of work experience, and I can’t even get a single call back. In a city that’s supposed to be recession proof.
How I […]
It is so strange the way things turn
Here’s the moment where I start to feel sorry for myself again. I’ve sent out a lot of resumes now, over 10, and I haven’t received a single response. When has that ever happened? I used to have the resume employers died for — there was a time, as recently as the […]
Goodbye, humorous LinkedIn profile!
Since my wallet has been telling me it’s time to get very, very serious about looking for a job, I am having to change my LinkedIn profile. Sure, people change their LinkedIn profile all the time, you might think, but mine was a postmodern humorous statement — a living joke, if you will.
My interests:
beating stagflation, […]
Dancing in the dusk
These have been, overall, rather depressing times for me, but, like the economy, this is a moment in time that needs to happen. It may as well happen during a crushing recession. I am unemployed, I am penniless, I don’t live in the city I want to live in, yet I find myself […]
72 degrees, 72 miles per hour
It was one of those nights that convertibles were ostensibly purchased for, so I put the roof down as I turned the ignition and headed for home on the ass-opposite end of town, leaving the house of a friend. Not just any friend, but the only one I’ve truly made since I moved back […]
The morning after
It’s amazing how much energy you invest into something you don’t even believe in — that was the last 4 or 5 months for me. I need to get back to New York — I haven’t been happy more than a day or two in a row since I left 2 years ago. […]
You think this is easy realism?
I’m home
lost my job
and am incurably ill
David Bowie — D.J.