Today I’ve added two pages to this website. Read and enjoy:
Services
Resume
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
I wrote a story for WalletPop today about an Internet hoax that Russell Crowe (no relation) was dead. He’s not. He’s fine.
And so am I, although I used the same website that someone used to create the Russell Crowe hoax to come up with the same headlines if I were an actor:
All in good fun, and I’m safe. I haven’t even been to any of those places, although I may have driven through Fullerton, CA, where the traffic accident supposedly happened. And that’s not Emma and I in Austria in the photo above.
It’s all a hoax that the linked website lets anyone create with a template it has set up. While it’s tempting to fake your own death, don’t set up a celebrity for such headaches.
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 Dad to detail the job hunt while raising a child while my wife returned to work full-time. She still works full-time and we still have health benefits, and our daughter is now 5.
It has been a long two years, probably the most stressful of my life. Here are a few of the things I’ve learned during those two years:
Continued reading >
One of the things I’ve had to unlearn, at least partially, from journalism school is being a generalist. In college I was taught that as a reporter, it’s best to know a little about a lot of things so that reporting on many issues would be easier. Even with specific beats — city government, prisons, transportation, etc. — everyone was always a general assignment reporter who could jump on any breaking story.
But having a specialty is now popular with the Internet. Everyone has a niche, or is trying to create one. On WalletPop, I write about personal finance, but in an interesting way that has mass appeal. At Housing Watch, I write about new homes and the housing market in general.
They’re niche markets, but my beats are so wide that there are sub-beats within them to cover. For example, for Housing Watch I’m trying to find stories relating to solar power or “green” power. It’s an interest of mine and one I think that I can add a lot to. Continued reading >
Click here for audio resume
AaronCrowehttp://s3.amazonaws.com/fiverr.com/attachments/317355/AaronCrowe.mp3?1274479158
Copy and paste the above link into a browser window and listen. Or click the link above and then click on the MP3 file to listen.
I hired a radio announcer to give a 30-second read of my resume and talk about my continued search for work. Take a listen and let me know what you think.
It’s also part of my blogroll below.
Aaron on WalletPop