A headline caught my eye this morning: "Battleship Sinks at the Box Office". No shit! I would've passed on reading it, but the subtitle drew me in: "Far short of expectations". Really?! How do you fall far short of none?

I expected it to be a huge waste of time and… Read full post »

I realize that I’m contradicting myself in a major way by wanting to remain anonymous and also wanting the word to spread about my writing.  The fact that I’m using the very public World Wide Web to do this further exaggerates this contradiction.  So why not embrace it and becom… Read full post »

As a general rule of thumb, wherever you are, you should always consider that there could be someone faster than you in the vicinity.  Unless, of course, you are absolutely certain that you are the fastest guy in the room.  Even then, you should proceed with a sense of humility lest… Read full post »

I love free stuff.  One of my mottos is “if it’s free, it’s for me and I’ll take three even if it’s shitty”.  With that in mind I ended up signing up to become a BzzAgent.  A friend had forwarded an email to me with a sweet offer: all new BzzAgents… Read full post »

Recruiters (also known as head hunters and job whisperers) are the used car salesmen of the employment world.  Unfortunately for the employment impaired, recruiters seem to be the easiest way to land that next dream job.  Find one that you can trust and the search could very well be a painl… Read full post »

It was easy to start to feel a little overconfident after I nailed that first phone interview.  I wasn’t cocky or arrogant, but I did feel like I had the experience and personality to be a good fit for the positions I was applying for.

After two in-person interviews that… Read full post »

The night had been going surprisingly well; the conversation during dinner was good and there seemed to be genuine interest on both sides.  I don’t normally go for these blind date-type set-ups, but I was on a dry spell and needed to see if I could get something going…anything. /… Read full post »

It was Super Bowl Sunday, and instead of immersing myself in the Big Game I was trying to figure out how to complete my unemployment filing.  Meanwhile, the entire country (along with most of the world) was about to watch Eli Manning mouth-breathe his way to another title. 

As a… Read full post »

If guys driving around in obnoxious, extravagant automobiles (think Hummer) are compensating for a lack of size in certain areas then imagine what it means to have your own private jet.  To put it on a scale, if the guy driving a Hummer is hung like a field mouse, then the… Read full post »

It was late February 2003, and I was smack in the middle of a conversation that would haunt me to this day.  I was standing in the office of a partner at the accounting firm that was employing me at the time, and the conversation naturally turned the topic that was… Read full post »

 It’s the time of the year when romance all of a sudden seems to be on everyone’s mind.  In honor of Valentine’s Day, I would be remiss to not also tell a story involving some romance, intrigue, lies and possibly some high grade explosives used in a controlled explosion on… Read full post »

My name is not important.  Where I worked is not important.  What is important is that I’m recently unemployed in an uneasy economy and need to find a job.  For the intent of what I’m doing here, specific details about who I am, where I worked or anything else about the… Read full post »