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Confessions of a former unemployed

I always tried to be honest on my blog. Like some greater blog god was going to judge me and strike me down with spam for not being brutally honest. I won’t lie there were times when I’m like this story would be so much better if I didn’t have to admit that I was [...]

Big city dreams

I’m just a small town girl who moved to the big city with big dreams… just to find out, the only way to make it in the big city… is to shake it. And that’s what I do — at the Coyote Ugly. And… scene! With today’s excess time, I found myself rediscovering a kinship [...]

Rachel explains it all

My deepest regrets to Clarissa, but I don’t recall her ever creating a I-helped-Ferguson-get-a-job-after-he-was-fired-for-being-a-troll game.  If Clarissa had created a game for Fergwit it would include jumping over bills, avoiding credit card company calls and chasing down EDD all while going up the ladder of employment interviews. Like her other collection of games, Clarissa would [...]

How to Talk So Unemployed People Will Listen and Listen so Unemployed People Will Talk

I remember when I first began to understand the way my parents raised my brother, sister and I. It was a moment of triumph, glory and glee. See, I did AmeriCorp right after college. Part of the program I was involved in required us to read a book on working with children. It was brilliant, [...]

Double true: unemployment is an airborne disease

The waves of

Laid Off Camp: NYC style

Space Camp goes to the Big Apple

When EDD doesn’t answer my calls

My epic fail relationship with EDD continues.

A morning without technology

When pretending you were born in the wrong era backfires.

Goal update: learning how to run again

My vision quest during unemployment.

To blog or not to blog

Welcome to Friday. It’s been a long week. I’ve been a day ahead since Monday. So today should really be Saturday but it’s not. I would shed a tear but I’m not that attached to specific days of the week considering everyday can be a Saturday when I’m not in contract work land. Earlier today [...]