Day # 3 of being without a full-time job … The one thing I miss about school is summer breaks. Why is it that overseas in the U.K. they encourage workers to take “holiday” that lasts one or two weeks and yet here in America we’re treated like Spartacus and are whipped into thinking we [...]
Day #2 of being without a full-time job. How am I fairing? Ok. Well, it’s something I think we all picture or imagine: what would you do if you left your job? What would you say? How would you act? For many, I think it’s all about the circumstances. If you were leaving on your [...]
Well, the (un)expected happened today: I was laid off of my position at work. I define it as (un)expected because as many have experienced with this economy and the job market, when you first receive word that you’re about to join the unemployment numbers, the first thing or phrase that probably comes to mind is [...]
So, as I write this I’m sitting through a crisis: no shoddy cable service from Time Warner Cable. If you’re in North Carolina and are a digital cable subscriber of Time Warner Cable, chances are you’re without many of the digital channels as well. The problem started at 9 a.m. this morning and as of [...]
Ah, ’tis graduation season. We’ll see kids moving onward to higher grades, children moving on from the Dawson’s Creek-like world of high school and so called young-adults graduating from college and entering the ‘real world’. Well, one constant among graduations is the big speaker who’ll bestow his or her wisdom upon the graduates, inspiring them [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by people’s desires and actions to ‘fit in’. I mean, we pride ourselves on being individuals but at the same time most people work hard to conform to stereotypes and misconceptions just to gain a lot of friends or be accepted by a certain group. Take for instance gay or queer [...]
So, I’m really surprised that an issue like health care reform is turning into such a controversial issue. I mean, do people remember all of the issues to come out of the last administration? If I remember correctly there was a war, the economy began to meltdown, the president always seemed to be unsure of [...]
I was thinking today about age and how it factors into workplace mechanics. After have a couple of years of professional work force experience under my belt, I’ve come to question this whole idea of age equals experience. That sort of is true, but not in the way the classic work model plays it out [...]
SO, it’s the end of February and the end of Black History Month. The strange thing is that I haven’t heard much at all about Black History Month this year! Usually there is a deluge of PSA and specials all reminding us of the contributions Blacks and African-Americans have made to the country. Not so [...]
Get Up When You Get Down — Antoine Reid I know when somebody hurts The tears will come The eyes may shut The heart my stop But we’ve got to keep moving on Rise above Take control It’s time to start Living for today Stop stressing over yesterday Live for today ‘Cause the sun will [...]
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