You know, I don't really care if you're orange or have tiny hands or ridiculous hair or can only make stupid facial expressions. I can forgive you for having a grating voice. I don't even care if you have a big ego or a tiny ego ( Read more... )

I got two interesting pieces of news at work today.

Security UpdateFor online access to certain kinds of things, like our W-2 forms, we now not only have to use our employee ID number and password but an additional hoop which requires us to check our smartphones for a second secret one-time-use-only password which we also type in ( Read more... )

Today I passed my final and am officially qualified to work the tax prep job. The next step is: I will probably get a call tomorrow about what the next step is ( Read more... )

It seems quite likely that I will be working for the tax prep company with whom I am currently taking a course. And I will get to work at the branch that is in walking distance of my house ( Read more... )

Wednesday I went to three job hunting seminars presented by Workforce Solutions. I figured they might be useful but even if they weren't, they'd count toward the five job-hunting activities I'm supposed to do every week to qualify for unemployment compensation. As it turns out, I did learn a few things ( Read more... )

After doing some more research, I've decided to keep my job search quite narrow. Normally this is a terrible idea. However, I have my reasons. Here are my current job hunting goals ( Read more... )

I'm wondering, should I be LinkedIn? I don't want recruiters looking for me, but is it a thing now where prospective employers look for you and if you're not on LinkedIn, you're not taken seriously? And you're probably fake ( Read more... )

It seems like every day I learn something new that makes me say "Seriously ( Read more... )

I thought I actually felt my blood pressure explode the other day, but there was a health fair at lunchtime and I got to see that my blood pressure was still fine. Still, I learned that getting my buttons pushed makes me feel kind of like I feel after performing at a music recital: shaky, light-headed, and blood churning. (Not hot, though--still ( Read more... )

Last weekend, Robin and I went to Denver to celebrate his friend T's graduation ( Read more... )