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The Jane Fonda unemployment workout

You hit that wall. The one where you wake up one morning and notice the empty plates of food on the floor, crumbs on the bed, not to mention the flies hoovering in the sink. It’s gross. No wait, strike that. You are gross. How’d you let yourself slip like that? One minute you have [...]

Return to Oz: where did the yellow brick road go?

This doesn’t look like how I remembered it before. I know I was here, but things look awfully different. Gone are the singing munchkins, the lush poppy fields and the yellow brick road. The remnants are there — a yellow brick here, a statue there, but it’s not as shiny or happy. The ocean is [...]

Lessons from SeaWorld: how playing statue saved my career

This morning was bitter. It’s not easy right now. I’m really worried about a lot of the balls that are in the air. So, today I reflect. I go back to thinking about high-school-theater-Rachel and her summer jobs. Yay introspective Rachel! Oh how we missed her and her self-deprecating humor. I know I did. Once, [...]

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 [...]

Living by the Scout moto: always be prepared

I’ve always liked to perform psychological experiments on myself. No, not like the Stanford prison experiment more Pavlovian than anything.  Needless to say, I now say soda instead of pop. Sorry Ohio. This time around I’m conditioning myself to be ok with using the system for help. I’ve signed up for Healthy San Francisco — [...]

On a clear day you can run forever

After an unfortunate night with a friend’s Wii  game, and by unfortunate I mean it told me I was out of shape — a sad fact I knew but did not want to admit, nor did I want a computerized video game to remind me of — I woke up this morning to run. It [...]

Cloudy days are here again

Sorry Milton, didn’t mean to rain on your parade or anything, but it’s been cloudy and overcast in the land of soon-to-be-unemployed again.  I’ve been quiet lately — well since Thursday — because  for one, I had a mini vacation planned. I went to visit some friends in the Emerald City. It was a nice [...]

This time tomorrow

At the end of this month I’ll be officially unemployed again. As I’m nearing the end of my time at my start-up, I’ve been wrapping things up and applying for jobs at the same time. Multitasking for the win! It’s been an odd feeling to see the end of my job this time around. Unlike [...]

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, [...]

Forty-Two

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