2
Dec
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Moms rock. Even when you’re a bratty teenaged girl and they won’t let you borrow that appliqued sweatshirt with the puffy moon and stars and you just about think it’s the end of your world because now how in heavens will TK notice you?—moms rock.
Because only a mom would do you the favor of telling you that you can’t borrow that heinous creation. Only a mom would keep that sweatshirt all to herself, no matter how much you beg and plead, because that’s how much you mean to her.
Moms are all-knowing (‘member the time she sniffed out the bathtub vodka on your breath when you came home from your first makeout party?), all-powerful (she could ground you with her eyes, punish your brother for smoking pot in the garage, vacuum the living room, and never even leave the kitchen), and, it turns out, totally awesome career placement specialists.
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Tags: balloon boy, getting a job, hunter s. thompson, Job Search, judd marcello, layoff story, mom as career placement specialist, momma's boy, mother knows best, yuddites, yup
3
Nov
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Today’s dispatch from across the pond comes at a good time. I myself am a little bit down in the dumps about finding a job. Daylight savings time is over, marking the final door-slam on our already closed summer of frivolity, and while I have freelance work, it’s not enough to occupy me. I want more. Challenges! Excitement! Coworkers! I need more. Free Halloween candy in the kitchen! A water bubblah! Money!
And I’m irritated and a bit numb from not hearing back from the one million peoples and places to whom I’ve sent my resume, of feeling like every effort I go to has so little effect, why bother…
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Tags: amazon.com, attire for recruiter meeting, be yourself, career consultant, craigslist, daylight savings over, deserving, down in the dumps, finding the right recruiter, freelance over, give direction, hamlet, job search advice, king henry VI, king lear, mediabistro, new recruiter rules, onward and upward, placing quality with quality, summer of frivolity, use recommendations, we are good, willliam shakespeare, worthy, yud, yup
23
Sep
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© Judd Marcello
has recently gotten in touch with his first dispatch from across the pond! I know you’re excited, but keep a stiff upper lip, please. Anything else would be untoward.
Release the Hounds
The one good thing about being unemployed in London is being unemployed in London. I am so busy keeping busy I haven’t had time to start the job search. There is so much to experience and explore here that I wonder why anyone would want to work in the first place!
Apparently I am not the only one who feels this way.
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Tags: 7.9 percent unemployment, american in london, barfly, british beer, choosing to be unemployed, hyde park, local ale, museum of natural history, ray lamontagne, royal albert hall, salvation via search engine, six-figure salary, sydney, tower bridge, unemployment in the UK, yup
28
Aug
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I recently got this note from Judd Marcello, fellow blogger, music aficionado, and husband to one of my college roommates: “I’m about to be unemployed once we move to London. Does YUD need guest bloggers? A “YUS” [Your Unemployed Son] perspective? A UK perspective?”
To update you briefly: J, my roommate, then housemate, now simply good friend across the world, moved to Boston after we graduated from our esteemed East Coast university. She took a job with a certain established company and has been with them ever since, moving, along with her promotions, from Boston to Miami to Sydney and now to London.
Judd has carved out his own career in each of those locales, bypassing established career path norms and hurtling conventional ladders to do what works for him—and what he’s really good at.
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Tags: american in australia, black & decker, boston, canon, choose your own adventure, corporate ladder, get back on the horse, gloriously unemployed, guest blogger, job find manifesto, judd marcello, kept man, london, miami, sydney, take this job and shove it, the purse, welch foods, willfully unemployed, your unemployed partner, yuddites
