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Because I've been asked at least twice in the past week or so for a list of places I check online for my job searches (and because I want to backup my extensive bookmarks toolbar here), I include the following. Note that these are the links as I have them bookmarked with minimal effort on my part to check them. The further you are from social ( Read more... )

To clarify my own semantic definitions of Career vs. J.O.B. (Just Over Broke), since it has come up on more than one occasion recently:

I see a Career as a Calling that helps one enact their personal Values while making money doing it. A J.O.B. is something that people do to pay the bills, often resentfully so, precisely because they act against ( Read more... )

The infamous Brad Hicks has an insightful take on how to create jobs. This is basically an extrapolation of the ideas I've already talked about here and elsewhere, but it's good to see someone who is a far better (and more informed) writer than I expound upon an excellent solution to our rising unemployment ( Read more... )

Yesterday I began my temp job that Hermes helped me get. It's basically just data entry, and it's interesting because I've had dreams of getting a data entry job as my next job (although, to be fair, I've had a LOT of dreams about different positions in the over 4 months since my lay-off, but most of them have been doing a previous job in some ( Read more... )

I got a call from my former co-workers at LA Weight Loss. They asked me to "guess what's happening." I responded, "they're shutting down the Eugene center?" Apparently, they're shutting down the entire company in a few weeks ( Read more... )

...and because I love k_sada (she who tagged me) so much, my fellow Coyotes ( Read more... )