Schlep Wisely, Children

Two years have come and gone and I’m writing this entry from the coffee shop where my mother once suggested I apply to work http://chewtoy.wordpress.com/2007/06/16/femme-blaspheme/ 
I’m happier. I’m thinner. I have two really kick ass jobs. And best of all, I get to sit here on my ass and write when I wanna instead of schlepping coffee. [...]

Screw you, and you, and you, and I Really Wish I Had The Spine…

I’m researching a medium-profile civil rights/murder/public relations FRENZY/case and have encountered a smattering of D-bags which I thought were reserved for cubicle life.
Exhibit A: Oober rude PR rep from a local organization. He refused to grant me information and interviews that he gave to others, treats me like shi*, hung up on me once, oh [...]

Tenks God for the Tanking ECONOMY

I should have left my snot driveling job when I had the chance. Now that the economy has outright turned to a pile of (insert noun here) I have no choice but to keep it, keep writing about local sports, the man selling pieces of the moon down by safeway, selling myself like a 2 [...]

My Kind of Guy

I have done things very similar to this. But now, I think I’ll do exactly this. Not only does it prove the guy is intelligent, but he is a hard worker. You go guy
 

  
 

Beware

I would like to take the chance to post a public service announcement. This is a sort of follow up from a previous post. I had applied for a job and interviewed extensively with people from company “A” only to be told that the people at company “A” were merging with company “B” so I [...]

Finding Solace at Costco

All is not lost. Right next to the “wonder balls” (back massaging balls) at Costco, I came across this bible of the minuteman.
 
According to one border patrol website, an individual working at the San Diego border could make as much as 150k/year. My boyfriend says that one of the distinctions between middle class and upper [...]

Oh C-Net, you too?

 I declined an offer at a large financial institution today. It turns out that although I had applied for said large ( and large I mean big 4) company, it was another company who represented them, and below that, yet ANOTHER company which was outsourced to them by the representing company, which was advertising the [...]

I wish this was a bad joke

If I have a job, then why do I feel like I am cheating when I go on craigslist to look for another job? This e-mail from AP turned 

the guilt into anger. The people who wrote the algorithm that matched my UC Berkeley degree and experience with a job as a security guard should be [...]

It Bugs When…

A recent comment got me thinking (and it was good, I agree). I can’t stand it when people think you’re involuntarily employed for a REASON. I don’t quite understand how someone would think someone else is unemployed by choice. In the recent interviews i’ve had, the question often comes up, because it has been a [...]

Statistics Don’t Lie, And They Don’t Help Either

Today I reminisce on my days as a stupid, infantile, easygoing, student. In school, especially elementary school, it was almost a baptismal right of passage for the brown nosing pupils to begin their essays with a “definition.” In keeping with tradition, and unable to part with my nostalgic feelings at the moment, let me commence [...]