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Image titled "Railway To Nowhere Land" used be permission of KM Cheng, Hong Kong. Click on photo to see KM's full Flickr photostream. There’s nothing like a little adversity to rid us of the illusions and false concepts we’ve built up in our lives. The challenge of unemployment has been having this effect in my [...]
Welcome to the new home of the Serendipity Journal. It has been a loooong time since I last posted. Sorry. Initially, my posting delay occurred because I was working to set up this new website. Despite my best research efforts, my first experience into domain names and hosting services had more than a couple of [...]
Image titled “I want my mommy” by anyjazz65 My wife Carol has an amazing affinity for animals of all kinds. Our house is a virtual Noah’s ark of pets, including dogs, cats, birds, fish, and other assorted, furry varmints. Each pet enjoys Carol’s special blend of care and attention. She has a natural ability to [...] I’ve worked for some fine people over the course of my career. One of the best was my old manager from my past employer, Chuck Reedy. I worked for Chuck for two years. He was a good manager, treating everyone with dignity and respect. He was dedicated, hard working, and pragmatic. Unfortunately, Chuck was laid-off in [...] I missed last week’s post. I’m in danger of missing this week’s as well. There’s so much to do… When I was laid-off in February, I didn’t anticipate how busy I would be in unemployment. In the last two weeks, I spent a day’s time applying for food stamps and almost two days reapplying for financial [...] "Graduation Cake Guy" image by CarbonNYC. Click image to see his entire photostream. Earlier this week, I heard a news report stating the last time the national unemployment rate was this bad was back in the early 1980’s. I graduated from college in 1983, at the height of the Reagan recession. I had no [...] This post is dedicated to my friend David. I hope you realize how many friends you have in your “network.” In Praise of Networking Exactly one month to the day now since I was laid-off. I had my first phone interview last week regarding a great local job with a Fortune 500 company. The position looks like [...] It has now been a little over a week since the layoff. 300 people were let go over two days. One of them was my friend Brad, who used to work in the IT Department. The two of us immediately decided to form a support group. I don’t know how I would have gotten through the [...] Image by _gee_'s photostream. Click on the picture to see more images from him. The rumor mill was buzzing at work when I arrived there on Wednesday: layoffs were beginning again. Coworkers were gathered in small groups, speaking in hushed tones. As the morning dragged on, I overheard anxious and tearful clips of conversations [...] Image by flattop341. Click on the photo to view more of his photos. Sunday our boy scout troop went ice skating at the local rink in Newark, Ohio. I’m a decent in-line skater, but I hadn’t been on ice skates since I was a teenager. As it turns out, I’m able to ice skate [...] |
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