I received three contacts on Call on Ellen today asking me about legitimate work from home opportunities. One of the emails, unfortunately, was from a single mother that is looking to supplement her day job with a part-time work from home job. She had paid a site to start working there and had gotten scammed. I will have to take some time to investigate my analytics report to see which keywords these people used to get to my site.
This was a busy week!
I got a new car. A 2008 Mazda 6.
I wrote a lot of copy and a lot of proposals.
I scanned about 100 photos and made a slideshow movie for my Grandmother's 80th birthday.
I read two books about marketing to the affluent.
I reached 950 followers on Twitter.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Professional resume writing services
I have helped edit/write many things in my day. Spa pamphlets, menus, obituaries, t-shirts, nostalgic coffee mugs, rhyming eblasts. So, suffice it to say, I don't get asked to write many things that stump me.
Today, a friend of mine asked for my professional expertise for one of his friend's resumes. A friend of a friend's resume. Not too weird, right?
So so wrong.
Evidently his friend used to be a cop. A cop that shot two people who were holding up a convenience store with guns. One of those people died. Unfortunately for him, the person turned out to be 14 years old and the realistic-looking gun was actually a toy. He is now looking for another career.
My friend called me two hours into a web search to ask for my help. I couldn't help it. At the end of the story I HAD to ask:
"What keywords were you using?? 'Sample resume format police officer accidentally shot teenager with water gun + career change'"?????
Was he really expecting to find something?
Today, a friend of mine asked for my professional expertise for one of his friend's resumes. A friend of a friend's resume. Not too weird, right?
So so wrong.
Evidently his friend used to be a cop. A cop that shot two people who were holding up a convenience store with guns. One of those people died. Unfortunately for him, the person turned out to be 14 years old and the realistic-looking gun was actually a toy. He is now looking for another career.
My friend called me two hours into a web search to ask for my help. I couldn't help it. At the end of the story I HAD to ask:
"What keywords were you using?? 'Sample resume format police officer accidentally shot teenager with water gun + career change'"?????
Was he really expecting to find something?
Friday, September 18, 2009
Photo fun to bring in the New Year
Tonight is Rosh Hashanah!
Happy Jewish New Year to my blog readers! As always, I wish everyone a wonderful year filled with sweetness, love, success, health, and all that other good stuff.
Alex's sister will be in town this weekend to see the house (for the first time). She is coming with some Entenmann's Apple Tartlets. I am going to try and control myself. When his parents came with crumb topping donuts six of them were gone in two days.
Alex has been away the last few days and, instead of going out yesterday evening, I stayed in and worked. And had fun with photos. Here's a preview:
Check the rest out HERE!
Happy Jewish New Year to my blog readers! As always, I wish everyone a wonderful year filled with sweetness, love, success, health, and all that other good stuff.
Alex's sister will be in town this weekend to see the house (for the first time). She is coming with some Entenmann's Apple Tartlets. I am going to try and control myself. When his parents came with crumb topping donuts six of them were gone in two days.
Alex has been away the last few days and, instead of going out yesterday evening, I stayed in and worked. And had fun with photos. Here's a preview:
Check the rest out HERE!
Friday, September 11, 2009
Why I now sympathize with the angry-looking girls that ride the bus
It started off with a good deed.
I took Alex's car to get an oil change this morning. The service guys told me it would take an hour to an hour and a half. I had brought a book but once I sat down I realized that I wasn't in a Machiavelli kind of mood. I was hyper and hungry (no shock there, I guess) so I started the trek to what seemed like a relatively close McDonalds (across Sahara, for those of you in Las Vegas). Ten minutes into the walk, in 100 degree heat, I discovered that it wasn't very close at all. I kept on, an egg and cheese (minus the meat) biscuit calling my name. My phone began ringing; a girlfriend with whom I had made plans to meet later that day - for a Tai Chi class - was wondering if I wanted to go to an earlier class. I explained what was going on and why I couldn't go earlier.
Then it happened.
A beat up, twenty year old Nissan came to a stop - in traffic! - to ask if I needed a ride. I heard my friend on the phone ask what was going on. A cop (not even wondering what was happening, apparently) swerved around the shady Nissan and continued driving. I said, "Uh, no thanks. I'm totally fine." I must have made a rude/horrified/get-the-hell-away face, though, because he waved his arm in an obnoxious way and offered some unsolicited life advice before driving away: "Maybe you should buy a car instead of an expensive phone and purse, b*tch!"
Really????!!
No wonder girls waiting for the bus always look pissed off! That probably happens to them every day!
I told my friend that I would call her back and returned to the car service waiting room. On second thought, Machiavelli and some vending machine potato chips didn't sound so bad after all.
I took Alex's car to get an oil change this morning. The service guys told me it would take an hour to an hour and a half. I had brought a book but once I sat down I realized that I wasn't in a Machiavelli kind of mood. I was hyper and hungry (no shock there, I guess) so I started the trek to what seemed like a relatively close McDonalds (across Sahara, for those of you in Las Vegas). Ten minutes into the walk, in 100 degree heat, I discovered that it wasn't very close at all. I kept on, an egg and cheese (minus the meat) biscuit calling my name. My phone began ringing; a girlfriend with whom I had made plans to meet later that day - for a Tai Chi class - was wondering if I wanted to go to an earlier class. I explained what was going on and why I couldn't go earlier.
Then it happened.
A beat up, twenty year old Nissan came to a stop - in traffic! - to ask if I needed a ride. I heard my friend on the phone ask what was going on. A cop (not even wondering what was happening, apparently) swerved around the shady Nissan and continued driving. I said, "Uh, no thanks. I'm totally fine." I must have made a rude/horrified/get-the-hell-away face, though, because he waved his arm in an obnoxious way and offered some unsolicited life advice before driving away: "Maybe you should buy a car instead of an expensive phone and purse, b*tch!"
Really????!!
No wonder girls waiting for the bus always look pissed off! That probably happens to them every day!
I told my friend that I would call her back and returned to the car service waiting room. On second thought, Machiavelli and some vending machine potato chips didn't sound so bad after all.
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