28
Aug
Posted in Adventures with YUP | 9 Comments »
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
1
Jul
Posted in Dept. of Labor | 2 Comments »
photo credit: KayVee.INC
Think your layoff was bad? What if you had to leave the country? What if it happened twice? Guest blogger and all-around fabulous guy “Tony” (who really did not deserve what happened to him, btw, but is doing just fine now, thank you for asking) gives all of us whingers a little perspective …
I GOT LAID OFF. BLOODY HELL
It is New Year’s Day 2009. My gorgeous, hilarious, darling girlfriend
of 18 months is wandering around my apartment wearing knickers (hers)
and a 15-year-old grey hoodie (mine). She looks amazing. I make her a
cup of tea. We sit on the couch and I think about where to take her
for brunch.
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Tags: august in osage county, employment visa, englishman, facebook, furniture on craigslist, HR person, IT department spies, IT guy, layoffs and firings, london, new years breakup, new york city, office mums, pay-per-use phone, pret a manger, san francisco, sixth avenue, slinky, soccer buddies, starbucks, the little mermaid, tough love, toys r us, work blackberry
