My wife and I relocated from Arizona to Virginia last  August, and it has taken us until just now--January, '11--to finally get on track to catching up and making the kind of money we'd envisioned once we got here.  Finally, as we get a little more of the "lay of the land" each week we're here, we've begun to narrow down our choices and preferences ( Read more... )

 I'm not gonna lie, being jobless is flat-out AWESOME--for the first week or two.  After that, you start getting bored, go on a couple of interviews, drink a handle of rum every week, quit working out, and spend seven to nine hours a day on the internet.  The cool part is that the light at the end of the tunnel--the job--is coming "quickly," with ( Read more... )

 I've been doing a lot of reading lately (as I have done for the last six or seven years or so), and the last book I read was a book on management styles.  It is apparently well-known among the country's best managers (according to Gallup) that the happiest employees are ones who have been steered toward jobs that make use of their own natural ( Read more... )

 I have to admit that yesterday I lost my job.  It was bittersweet, because I really wasn't happy there as it was.  I was only there for sixty days or so, and I've equated it on more than one occasion to dating a girl that you know it won't work out with:  You're still getting laid (paid), so there's no real impetus to up and leave just yet ( Read more... )

 I was flipping through the last time I posted on this, and it was in May.  Holy.  Cow.

You know, this is a huge thorn in my side--minorities in this country really have nothing to say about race anymore.  I understand that things were damned difficult from well before MLK's time to well after, but we're talking about a hundred-year span of time now ( Read more... )

...Ones who have been in an accident, and ones who haven't yet ( Read more... )

 Does anybody out there hate working for The Man enough to quit their job ( Read more... )

Keeping my eyes out pretty savagely for anyone involved in aircraft brokerage/sales...I need a mentor or internship/co-op to get into it, it looks like.  I think there's waaaaay more cash in a commission check than in what I'm making right now.  Example:  I make *around* twenty bucks an hour right now--about forty grand a year.  Now, do the math:  ( Read more... )

Well, over the holidays I managed to put on a solid twenty pounds.  I got on the scale last week and it read 185--right around the heaviest I've ever been.  Now, I'm not much for following my scale, since I could easily have weighed 185 and had it be muscle.  Thing is...it wasn't.  I got flabby because I quit working out for like two months.  I was ( Read more... )

Mine isn't pretty, to say the least.  I'm like every other go-to-work-to-pay-your-bills, bust-your-ass blue-collar American out there right now...but that will change in the next few years.  The reason I know this is because I'm going to make it change.  I'm tired of looking at the guys I work with, and looking into the future and thinking, "I ( Read more... )