Posts Tagged ‘job interview’

Remember, do not try this at home…

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 18:13 0 Comments

A couple of months ago I applied for a job that I figured I was a shoo-in for. Yeah, I know you’ve heard this story before but this one has a twist that might help some of us. I applied for this job and as it turns out the place I applied to was a [...]

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Time for a career change Gerry!!!

Friday, August 21, 2009 17:13 0 Comments

Now I, like most of you, have spent a lot of time looking for jobs in the traditional and non-traditional ways - all in the hope of finding a job that will enable Wifey and I to keep our home and work our way out of debt like so many “hard-asses” say is the “responsible thing [...]

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Bad FICO score? NO JOB FOR YOU!!!!!

Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:57 0 Comments

Okay so the tone of my last post got a little over the top there at the end. If anything that post should give all of you out there an indication of how some of us are feeling right now. A lot of us are frustrated because we have been doing anything and everything to [...]

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Perchance to dream…

Thursday, August 6, 2009 17:41 0 Comments

OK, a couple of updates…
No, I haven’t heard anything from Goodwill about the Supervisor job and at this point I don’t think I’m going to. I don’t think I’ve made it to the second round of interviews so I am going to write them off and move on. It’s been more than two weeks since [...]

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100th Post: Where are the Jobs?

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 16:49 0 Comments

For my 100th ever post I wanted to do something special. I wanted to come in here and say that the siege was over and that I had found myself a job. Everything was going to be all right and Wifey and I could relax a little bit. That was my plan last Wednesday when [...]

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We got the letter…

Monday, July 13, 2009 21:37 0 Comments

Today we got the letter that neither one of us wanted to receive.
I went out to pick up a prescription for Wifey today, and on my way to Walgreens I drove by our mailbox to pick up today’s mail and mail off my Publishers Clearinghouse Entry. I scanned the mail very quickly and noticed a [...]

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