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Here come the recruiters, hide your long-term unemployed

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Three recruiters contacted me last Thursday, all within about an hour of each other. The stars must have aligned just so, creating a world where my resume springs to the top of every job board search for “digital marketing professional.” Does this signal the end of the famine, or the beginning of the famine? I’ll [...]

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Filed in Employers, Feeling Sorry for Yourself, Job Search, Resumes, Unemployment | Also tagged Hold Your Fire, HR, Juke Box Hero, Little Debbie snack cakes, MacGyver, Moving Pictures, Power Windows, PRWeb, recruiters, Roseanne | Comments (4)

Text message triggers unemployed blogger’s high school music bender

Thursday, June 25, 2009

An old buddy of mine texted me last night. He’d been listening to the first Tears For Fears album, The Hurting, from forever ago. You may remember “Mad World” and the great cover of it that scored a Gears of War video game trailer. His favorite song from the album – “Suffer The Children” – [...]

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Entrance music for my every unemployed occasion

Thursday, June 11, 2009

I want my own theme song, almost as bad as I want a job. I don’t mean music that plays during the credits before and after each episode of my life. The “Night Court” and “Facts of Life” songs are taken anyway, as is the theme to “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” (number one in the [...]

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Jobless and less is more

Sunday, February 8, 2009

I’ve always wanted to yell, “Are you ready to rock?” or “Thank you, (insert city name here)” from an arena stage, as bright lights and screams rain down. It seems I’m a little closer to my goal in Salt Lake City, UT and Pittsburgh, PA.
An article about me and Jobless and Less by freelance writer [...]

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