My Daily Whine

I have some time off right now so to be productive while looking for a new job, I thought I’d take a course – good idea until I tried to register for one online.  You have to give a masonic hand shake, do it on the right phase of the moon and pray to be able to sign up for a couse. 

First tried a regulatory affairs couse and I think that’s an issue of an id problem but then I tried to sign up for a course in the Master’s program at U. of Phoenix – OMG!!  They’ve been bombarding me with info about their program for month – now you have to have a Ph.D to figure out how to sign up!!!  Unbelievable!!  Just another whine…

I had some insight today about what a pain in the butt applying for a new job is and how it could be much simpler to do.

• Make the on-line application different than the darn resume you’re asking for.
• Be clear what you do and don’t need in the job
• Look past the paper – have the courtesy to talk to people – a 5 minute phone call can find you a gem in a sea of resumes.

It’s Sunday after a really rough week for the Boston area – my nerves are still on edge from the bombing at the marathon and subsequent raids, I looked forward to a quiet Sunday reading and doing cleaning- chilling and then the horrible grinding of a blowing motor starts at 10 AM and continues for hours.

Now I understand why towns are banning these noise polluters. 

I was happy with the debate between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren.  You had 2 bright, involved people who were actually civil to each other.  Only in Massachusetts.

I went over to get my car inspected today and thought I was driving over the craters of the moon. Every road stunk: Rt. 9, Rt, 126, connectors. Since I had the stroke when I go over corduroy roads I feel like a bobblehead – makes me a bit nauseous.

Usually,  the roads are pretty good in Framingham – must be some political nonsense.  Hopefully they’ll get back to driveable roads soon.

I saw the Chrysler Super Bowl commercial and Clint Eastwood is the first republican to exhibit statesman like behavior. While I know a marketeer wrote the speech, Eastwood had to agree to do the commercial.
It was a gritty, frank statement that is the precursor to us pulling ourselves back up by our boot straps.

I’m an average person; I work hard everyday and it’s overwhelming to see people who have everything saying that we don’t need this and that while they continue to have everything they’ve always had as well as a job.
Come on, people let’s get going, we’re all in this together. As Ben Franklin said, “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”