October 2008
2 posts
Obama's Ground Game & Mine
Focusing on “Me, Inc.” and a job hunt are inherently self-centered exercises. You are quite literally selling yourself. To counterbalance this, I spend one workday per week volunteering for a couple of different causes. Yesterday, I drove to Philadelphia to help out in one of Barack Obama’s campaign offices. Much has been written about the Obama “ground game” - here...
Five Months & Counting
Yesterday marked five months since I received notification that my employer, Sun Microsystems, would be eliminating my position. For the first couple months after my layoff, I attended some family events, drove my car back from California and positioned myself for what I hoped would be a very brief interruption in the career track. In the meantime, a sputtering economy has stalled out...