Some people like me, and some people don’t. And most couldn’t care less one way or the other about some unemployed blogger and his thoughts. That’s the way the world works. But once in a great while someone spits so much venom my way that I wonder if I wronged them in a previous life. [...]
Tag Archives: Queens
Unemployed guy fits right in at the US Open
Friday, September 4, 2009
Tourists and Manhattanites don’t come to Queens. They’re still scared of Brooklyn’s tonier neighborhoods, where killer mothers, nanny henchmen and four-headed demon newborns of death rule the parks, boutiques and cafes. So this side of the East River, a little north of Brooklyn, where all the foreign people live, might as well be Sadr City [...]
Want job security? Sell fruit in Manhattan
Thursday, January 29, 2009
The fruit guy has more job security than I ever did. I’ve been laid off and unemployed 4 times in 8 years, but he’s still selling fruit on the same corner.
The perfect job awaits…
Friday, January 23, 2009
The perfect job can take many forms. This guy is offering employment as a henchman, a nemesis. And I’m uniquely qualified. He’ll never know what hit him.
Toy story: the recession edition
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Watching a toy store close from my bedroom window
Don’t believe your unemployed friends at the gym
Friday, January 2, 2009
Unemployment benefit extensions seem to work just like regular unemployment benefits
Career training courtesy of the NY Department of Labor
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
The NY Department of Labor requires career training to collect unemployment. Read about my visit to their offices, which wasn’t as painful as it could have been.
Sometimes perspective finds you
Monday, December 1, 2008
You may be unemployed, but some people have it a lot worse.
Even in unemployment I can’t get away from the Empire State Building
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Story about how the Empire State Building seems to follow me