Your eyes meet and you coyly look away. You read once that no one likes someone that is too forward when they first meet. One must be careful to not be overzealous now, right? Your eyes meet again. Perfection is met with everything you’ve ever wanted — benefits that include vision and dental, PTO and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘laid-off’
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, [...]
The ultimate test
I was afraid to write this blog post. I’ve been afraid all night and not looking forward to it. I’ve been big on looking at my fears straight on and overcoming them. I went to be last night not wanting to overcome anything. I could blame it on the milkshake I had with dinner that [...]
When being good-at-life backfires
So this past week I attempted a too-good-to-be-true-trademark-good-at-life move, I switched my cable and Internet providers in an attempt to save money. Now I’m without Internet — until I can get it set-up — and let me tell you how much I miss the warm glow of my desktop computer slightly humming to me to [...]
Moving on up
When you find leave the wardrobe for the working world
How to keep track of your jobs
The great and vast ocean of the blogging unemployed has allowed us to share our knowledge and insight. From answering questions on how we get through to the unemployment offices, when our checks arrive and even how we build our Web sites, there is a lot of sharing going on. We may not have bonuses [...]
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.
I love credit card companies redux
Credit card companies are my BFF. No, not in the sense that I’ve been living off of them and evading the numerous 1-800 and unavailable calls several times a day, but in the sense that they are helping me stay fiscally responsible. Yay adulthood. We finally meet and you are much lovelier in person than [...]