For the last week or so, I’ve been working my ass off on updating my portfolio. If you don’t have a portfolio, just think of it like updating your resume only 382,183 times worse because you have to choose actual evidence of the stuff you say you can do. And that evidence? It all looks …
When she was in high school my best friend Jodi Hanson had a huge crush on Freedom Williams (thirty-two double plus bonus points if you remember him before you read the next sentences). This might have been the summer between her sophomore and junior years because I remember coming to visit from Wisconsin, entering her …
Yesterday at lunch, my boss told me I had to work on my online portfolio. It is, according to her, my top priority above all other things that I might need to do. I nodded my agreement that it was, in fact, a very important thing to do and told her I’d get right on …
If I weren’t already losing my job, Jayto, my boss, would totally fire me for slack unbecoming a productive member of society. I had all this homework to do for our Job Hunting 202 class and I didn’t get any of it done. Somehow I am unable to find the precarious balance between hermitude and …
I can’t even remember how the topic came up, I think that part of my brain went black after the synapses started misfiring. All I remember is hanging out after a meeting and Maria saying, “Let’s see how you show up in Google.” As Maria’s fingers tapped across the keyboard getting ever closer to my …
Sometimes I wish I was the kind of person who could just post a cryptic song lyric and the emoticon for puzzled and call it a day. But I can never seem to do that when there are all those words out there that I can use. If I were that kind of person I …
I was helping Mary Katherine Gallagher and Dougs with a must be done right this second or we will all die project. This was last week. But then they were finishing it up this morning telling me about the status, blah blah blah. “I’ll go proof the sticker and the card,” Mary Katherine Gallagher said. …
