Rose's Cantina

Embed from Getty Images For the past year, I've been busy trying to find a good, well paying job. It's been challenging because I'm an older worker, and I am frequently not even considered once the resume readers realize I remember Richard Nixon. A few years ago, I went back to school to finish my degree, and that has helped tremendously because the resume readers see that I graduated in 2019 not 1978 when I first went to journalism school.  Despite all efforts -- upgrading my education, getting a secret security clearance, and rehabilitating my credit destroyed by years of working for sketchy clients who I had to chase to get paid -- I couldn't get to third base with recruiters.  Bottom line: I simply couldn't get didn't any job interviews.  Then I remembered my training as a correspondence assistant in the Prime Minister's Office where I worked when the current Prime Minister was still in short pants. The valuable training I received has served me we...

Scott has been out of work for four months. He quit his job because going there made him throw up in his mouth. For four months, he's been job-hunting. Nothing in his field. No call backs, not even from McDonald's. Yesterday, he decided to go back to doing what he's been doing for the past four years. Selling cars. He sent his resume out. He got 15 call backs in less than two hours. Got 15 job interviews. Will start his new job on Saturday. Yay! The man needs a job. He hijacked my television for four months. Played video games incessantly. Chewed my ear off. I now have my television back. No more listening/watching to men with bad English accents, in questionable attire, offing monsters. No more buying groceries with Air Miles from the liquor store. There is peace in my time. Groceries in my belly. To celebrate, here's a video I think you'll enjoy. I'll give you a cookie if you watch it all the way through. Two if you figure it out.  ...