TheJobBored

This is a quick aside… cause I don’t get this. Someone might be able to enlighten me in the comments. I’m no economist.
I don’t know about you, but the last few months, conversations amongst friends and co-workers, etc… it’s all been about how expensive everything is. Gas… we all know. But have you been to […]

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As opposed to last week’s
The latest weekly data show first-time claims for state unemployment benefits jumping 10% to return to the 380,000 level.  That’s an uncomfortably high number. Tomorrow is the monthly report. Expected to be down around 75k jobs.

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Personal note now. I will not be posting the rest of the day because I am in D.C. attending a family memorial for the man on the left, my Great Uncle Eddie.
Pearl Harbor survivor. Lifelong Navy man. 1914-2008.
RIP.
Sometimes we all have to wonder, what memory of us remains, no matter what great things we witness […]

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Well, I think the lines through the text problem is fixed (earlier discussion here). Thanks to Mark, Chuck and Chris!
I believe it’s fixed, but I’m sort of bummed about it.
The culprit was a plugin I added called Popularity Contest. I loved it. It tracks the most read posts in real time. Great plugin.
Unfortunately (nerdy coding […]

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A couple of readers have alerted me that there is some sort of problem with the webpage. They’re reporting something about lines through the text, making some posts unreadible.
Is anyone else experiencing this? I can’t seem to replicate it, and I’ve tested it on IE, Safari and Firefox.
If you are experiencing this problem, please let […]

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I’m sorry gang.
I’ve got some crazy ResumeWriters.com business stuff to take care of today (and yesterday, if you noticed).
I’m hoping that by tomorrow I’ll be at usual posting prolificacy.
For now, I do have to acknowledge that I stole the pic from Valleywag.
LOLcats parody humor always makes me laugh.
Not necessarily LOLcats humor. But parody humor.

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A weekly wrap-up of the forwards, email, jokes, You Tube videos and water cooler chatter making its way around America’s offices this week.
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You’ve probably seen the first video, but if you haven’t, it’s here.

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I don’t know about you (and I ain’t makin any statement of support to either party) but isn’t this election year fun? For the first time that I can remember, it’s interesting to watch this thing play out, for both parties. It’s like a really good sports season. For one thing, it’s not Iowa, New […]

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/educational/Resume_Tip_4_Quick_Ways_To_Make_Your_Resume_Stand_Out’;You’ve no doubt heard the old saw that your resume only has “X number of seconds” to catch a reader’s eye.
Part of the problem is, most people just use the same dull resume templates found in Word… or whatever your word processing program is.
A well-designed resume is eye-catching and professional-looking. You’ll know at […]

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This has been making it’s way around the interwebs for some time, but it’s something I use constantly, both at work and at home. So, here you go. Happy Championship Saturday.
How much time have you wasted in 800 number purgatory? What if you could get in touch with a real, actual person with the click […]

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