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My wife got a letter from someone inviting us to be on some show about wife swapping. They’re interested in families that are suffering due to the recession.
Apparently, she’s not the only one who received the invitation, as this post on Recessionwire makes clear.
She asked me if I wanted to do it, but I didn’t [...]
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Maybe. Put your face on a billboard
But what if it really catches on? Imagine going North on 95 through Philly and instead of countless billboards for “Gentleman’s” Clubs, the Flyers, the Wildwoods, terrible DJs on terrible radio stations and cows trying to persuade you to eat chikin, it’s nothing but the faces of the unemployed? [...]
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That’s how I’d put it.
Okay, I’m editing this post because I referred to the writer as a she and he didn’t like it. Also, I included something in here about dentists, but I’m giving that a post of its own.
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Michigan has a program to retrain workers. Oh yeah, and women are turning to stripping for big bucks.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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If you don’t know what Twitter is that might be a good thing. It can become an obsessive time-waster. On the other hand, maybe it can help you find a job. This is a nice article on how you can use Twitter to find a job.
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Go to Laid off at 50 right away.
Much as I had hoped to make this blog great, I’ve had to give up on it. I have a job and I’m too busy to maintain two blogs, so for now, all the blogging takes place at Laid Off at 50. So hurry over for a taste [...]
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Well, look what Michael Spafferty has done with his. It’s professional, informative, and inspiring. I’m certain it will land him many 6-figure job offers, and I’m thinking of hiring him to do my own video resume.
Michael Spafferty’s Video Resume from Unemploymentality on Vimeo.
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I have a job interview next week so I’ve been practicing by studying this excellent video on successful interview techniques.
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The party’s over for everyone. Visit this cool website. The artists are suffering, but not psychologically. Economically. Somewhere in there I read about a guy who had himself shot during the Vietnam war as art. Or something like that. I remember the monks lighting themselves on fire to protest. Now that was cool, but having [...]
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But here’s where you can start to find out. It’s a new video series about the Great Depression launching at the New York Times.
It’s amazing what people lived through in the first half of the twentieth century. Not that the 19th century or any other period in human history was anything but dark, germy, cold, [...]
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It’s in color, it’s worldwide, and it’s grim. Work your way through these pictures. It’s your duty as an informed human. Be happy if you have a house and a job and an Internet connection.
In Las Vegas, you can actually take a free weekly bus tour of foreclosed homes. That must be fun.
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