Posts Tagged ‘Career’

The Top 10 Reasons I Would Like To Be Working Again

By Brad G On May 16, 2008 2 COMMENTs

1. Give me something to do.

2. So I can use a computer for something else than looking at job websites all day.

3. Make it look like to my friends and family that I’m doing something all day. I don’t know how much they believe that looking for a career is a full time job nowadays.

4. Make some money to cover my traveling habit.

5. Learn something new…probably about something old…that’s been done a thousand time before.

6. Max out a 401k plan to take advantage of the crappy stock market. Buy low sell high bitches. Plus its the only way I can keep my taxabale income down when I don’t own a house, am married or have kids.

7. Support the profits of the oil companies by driving to work. Wait, I hate driving and gas that’s why I got a Ford Fusion and requested a 4 cylinder. I made them drive to Ohio to

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The Top 10 Reasons Nobody Will Hire Me

By Brad G On May 15, 2008 5 COMMENTs

1. I am stuck in that point in my career where I’m 5 years out of college so I have experience, but not enough to get me a job that will get me hired over the other people twice my age who recently lost their jobs too.

2. I have a business degree like the rest of the world.

3. I did not graduate from college with a 4.0 GPA.  “Looks like you just missed the cutoff, sorry.”

4. The college I went to was a mid-major which was a great school and I have nothing bad to say about it. I have been told that since it was not a Big Ten or major school that my below 4.0 GPA disqualifies me for a job.

5. Every time I apply for a job I get some email back saying the job was closed and nobody was hired or they have increased the requirements to you must

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