I’m starting to think that people actually like me, or my blog, or a career train wreck they can watch from a safe distance. Or maybe everyone is just bored to tears of job sites and their incessantly optimistic emails. Whatever the circumstances, a really cool site called FLYP has included me in an article [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Unemployed and exiled from the local cafe
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Jackson Heights is gentrifying, at least it was until the economy got all spooked and pulled the covers over its head. As part of the minority here, my wife and I have limited places to hang out. The varied ethnic restaurants are great, but don’t lend themselves to leisurely meals. The bars don’t cater to [...]
Virgin gone, music industry screwed, unemployed man changed forever (twss)
Friday, March 13, 2009
The record industry trudges on, in a sort of synchronized, death march. Consumers have stopped buying compact discs (or lately anything else), and labels don’t quite know what to do except stay the course and ask themselves, “why doesn’t this work anymore?” CDs had a good run, but sales have declined for much of the [...]
Jobless and less and some more
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Every now and again I get a little press. And being a generous bloke, I like to share it with the world. I wish I could to teach the world to sing and buy it a coke too, but I’m tone-deaf and unemployed. Links are about the best I can do. The other day The [...]
Home, home on the couch… where the bad 80s videos play
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
I usually set up shop for my unemployed day at my desk or the dining room table. Both have benefits and drawbacks. The Ethernet cable comes to my desk, so the internet is about as fast as it can be on a dying computer. But my desk could be declared a federal disaster area, maybe [...]
Unemployment makes me hate babies (and probably other small, cute things)
Monday, March 9, 2009
I hate babies, and I’m a terrible person. At least that’s how I felt Friday evening on a sidewalk in midtown, when I turned down a charity collecting money for babies. The conversation didn’t progress far enough to reveal what about babies needed funding. They could have been a charity that gives tiny Rolexes and [...]
News… what news? I didn’t hear about any news
Sunday, March 8, 2009
On days when big current events happen, my wife asks for my thoughts. (Bless her heart, she actually thinks I have intelligent things to say.) My inevitable response these last few months has been, “what are you talking about?” And I truly have no clue. I’ve lost touch with the immediate present, with what’s going [...]
The stuff I haven’t done around the apartment
Friday, March 6, 2009
After my layoff, I promised myself I would do more around the apartment. I didn’t tell wifey this, though I suppose I am now (doh!). By many measures, this husband already does his part. I go to the grocery store, though after years of this, all the green leafy stuff still kind of looks the [...]
Stimulus package makes COBRA your new best friend
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
COBRA might now be the unemployed person’s best friend (sorry, dog and PS3). People generally associate it with losing their jobs (through no fault of their own) and paying a lot of money (they don’t have) each month for health insurance that they’d rather not use. Who wants to lose their job and pay full [...]
Snow day!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Last night while lying in bed, I tuned my old clock radio to the only news station it picks up. A commercial came on for something forgettable and far away – a car service or business software maybe. But the weather report was on its way, on the eight, right after the break. I knew [...]