I turned down a job offer today.

( Why? )

Okay, everyone pity me. For four weeks I've been struggling to find work, to pass out resumes, to network.

In the past 24 hours I've gotten one volunteer opportunity, two freelance pricing requests, and two face-to-face interview appointments. Okay, I appreciate it, but... could the universe like, you know, space it out a little?

The U-6 is defined as the "Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers. Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are ( Read more... )

Brad DeLong comments on the 9.5% growth reported in the third quarter, along with a 13.6% growth in productivity and a 7.1% drop in labor costs: Back in the 1930s there was a Polish Marxist economist, Michel Kalecki, who argued that recessions were functional for the ruling class and for capitalism because they created excess supply of labor, ( Read more... )

Great Caesar's Ghost, I think this woman had hidden cameras watching the PMs at ${UNSPECIFIED_FORMER_EMPLOYERS}

Check this out: Schedule Games. Start at the bottom. "Schedule Chicken," "Hope Is Our Most Important Strategy," "Pants on Fire," "Schedule == Commitment," and "The Schedule Tool Is Always Right," are so painfully familiar they're ( Read more... )

I've updated my resume. Comments are welcome.

This morning, after dropping the kids off at school and running supplies up to Omaha for her interviews at Casual Connect, I got home and tweaked the hell out of my resume before heading up to Bellevue for the Monster.com quarterly "Job Fair," this time held at the Bellevue Hilton South ( Read more... )

Dammit, what is going on this week? I've had two interviews already, but open recs are few and far between. Is it the four-day week, or what? So far, the only openings I've seen are at MSNBC and the City of Auburn positions, and the Auburn one is a .NET position, and I'm getting mixed signals from MSNBC as to whether or not they want an ( Read more... )

I had two job interviews today. The first was with an advertising agency that is putting together a very rapid development site for one of their clients, and needs someone who can write Django fast enough to wrangle together all of the details of of a couple of inbound feeds into displayable objects. It's all back-end stuff, no GIMP-Fu needed sad ( Read more... )

The phone screen today has pushed over into a face-to-face on Monday. Even better, a random resume sent out a week ago has now come back with a second face-to-face on Monday. Well, this should be interesting. That's five interviews booked in one week.

Good grief, something has to come out of all this activity!