National Education Day

My work is initiating a “National Education Day Event” for all prospective and current students.  This event is supposed to celebrate the school’s dedication to education with activities, food, and games.
Promotional flyers were sent to each college in the nationwide company for our admissions teams to send out to students.
And each flyer had the following [...]

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The Satisfying Feeling

of knowing people are actually SEARCHING (or one person is searching several times) for my blog on the world wide internet gives me warm fuzzies inside.  Thank you to all my reader, old and new, for having some strange love of pointless writing.
With that, I have completed twenty-five pages of very rough book writing.  25 pages!  Some [...]

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You Can Call Me Richie Rich

It’s official…I invest in things.  I believe this marks the epitome of adulthood–next step black balloons and a mug that says “#1 Boss.”
Despite the fact that all money is running downhill fast, I decided to invest in my company’s 401k today…so that I can roll around in money when I’m sixty-five and thinking ceramic cats [...]

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Giving Advice About People Who Give You Advice (Advice)

After college, there seems to be this unwritten rule for family and friends to give you advice.  The second you hold that diploma in hand, it’s like you made a deal with the world to get free advice for an undisclosed amount of time. 
People you didn’t even know could give advice come out of the [...]

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Metamorphisis

Today, I called a phone number that turned out to be the Rejection Hotline.  No, it wasn’t one of my many man-conquests from any number of bars I spend most of my time in, getting average-looking guys’ phone numbers (that was a joke, mom and dad, I promise). 
The number was actually the contact information some potential [...]

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Because I’m Bored At Work

This is an ode to cubicle jobs:
Oh beautiful stapler, what a conversation piece you are
to joke with others about how no one ever has one.
The post-it notes scatter like the leaves outside my only window
that doubles as a cubicle wall.
And here I sit, talking to answering machine after answering machine
about the question no one is asking-
“What [...]

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What People Do With Jobs

I know I told some people that I would probably stop writing in this blog, seeing as the site my blog is linked with (Brazen) now invites potential employers to read the blogs.  But somehow it seems that MORE people have started reading my blog now that I haven’t updated in awhile.
So I guess I’ll [...]

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Getting a Pet After College

I have noticed a popular trend of young people when stepping out of their parents’ grasps into freedom.  And no, it isn’t line dancing, although I’m sure everyone out there enjoys a good one-two-step once in awhile.  It seems quite a few 20-somethings are out there getting a pet after college.
I should know, because I [...]

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Confession of a Tired Worker

Yesterday, I was talking with one of my nursing home residents (well, more talking to since I’m not sure she understood anything I was saying) about a “ragtime” song we were listening to at the time.
Right as “rag-time” passed my lips, one of my Woodstock-loving, Hawaiian shirt-wearing co-workers walked by and said, “What do you [...]

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Tips on How to Surpass Your Boss

Here’s a little story about life in entry-level world.  Yes, entry-level world.  A place of digging in the trash for some one’s lost folder and getting other people coffee whenever they ask for it.  A grand place, entry-level world.
In entry-level world, your boss is not always the smartest person you meet.  Your co-workers don’t always [...]

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