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 KM Cheng, Hong Kong
It’s Friday morning here in China and we’re nearly half-way through our trip already. It’s true what Gretchen Rubin noted in her one minute movie, “The days are long, but the years are short.”
Yesterday we visited a long-time supplier (at least for China) in their new factory in Jiangmen. [...]
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