I wrote about Ben Stein’s unfair portrait of the unemployed and how he thinks they have poor work habits and poor personalities. He disagreed in an opinion piece at AOL News.
It turns out I’m not the only person who thought Stein went too far with his commentary dissing the unemployed as lazy. Media Matters for [...]
Watch more free documentariesThis should be a fun interview Thursday morning. I’m talking to the people behind this documentary for a story for WalletPop as part of my unemployment beat. It reminds me of the end of “Up in the Air,” where people who were laid off detail how it happened.
I know that the day [...]
June 8, 2010, marks two years since I was laid off, and I’m still without a full-time job. It was an anniversary I hoped to avoid, but I keep plugging along with part-time work to help keep a roof over our heads.
Soon after being laid off, I started this blog as Tales of an Unemployed [...]
I Need A Freakin Job @ Yahoo! Video
President Obama must not have been too happy when he saw a billboard with “I Need a Freakin’ Job” on it when he went to speak about the administration’s efforts in job growth.
INAFJ.org is reminding the president that creating jobs should be the most important goal before the [...]
Here’s something new I bet most writers haven’t run across: Having your name entered in a lottery to see if you win a job.
I was contacted last week by someone I’ve worked with before to see if I wanted to do some writing for an SEO project the company is doing. I’ve done plenty of [...]