Pony Express Oath

More companies should have this kind oath:

While I am the employ of A. Majors, I agree not use profane language, not to get drunk, not to gamble, not to treat animals cruelly and not to do anything else that is incompatible with the conduct of a gentleman. And I agree, if I violate any of the above conditions, to accept my discharge without any pay for my services.

– Oath sworn by Pony Express Riders

New challange

I am really wanting to start a business. I know it will be challenging. But I think its the only way out. Next up what, how and where.

Job hunt

Its as bad as the first day I started this blog. Nothing has changed. The job hunting methodology is as dysfunctional as the economy. I am going to overcome and get a job like I had a TEP. We did it once we can do it again.

As the World Turns

As the World Turns ( is an American television soap opera which aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010.) My mom watched this when I was a kid. I was home sick from school watching it when Walter Cronkite broke in with the news that Kennedy had been shot. Now the long running show has past as well. Things of the world are passing away. The "new normal" is taking shape at an alarming fast pace. Can we keep up with the rapid acceleration pace without losing our minds and our souls?

Crestcom Dream Stealers

I wish to to meet the jerk who said to just take the rip off like a man. Hey pal they stole my money. I am pissed. They are the one's who wouldn't man up and buy back the worthless trash they pawned off on me. Even after they had made a grave mistake they did nothing. So shut up or man up yourself. I wonder if you would think it better if I just let them keep on stealing other folks dreams as well. They dashed mine.

Crestcom, four years gone

Four years ago I had enough of Crestcom International. They were about to charge me for unsold seats. How about the nerve of these pirates. After they had me using a marketing method they "scrapped," now they want me to buy the new crap material and penalize me for the time and money they wasted. Then they flatly denied me any more help on getting it off the ground. So I through in the towel.They won't buy back, even a fraction, of the crappy franchise they sold me. The company that helped me with financing told me they had never seen such a thing. They wouldn't lift a finger to help me sell the thing and then eventually sold another one in my area. Dirty rotten scoundrels, the lot!

It just keeps on.

This is my story

This is the situation. It is as clear as mud right now.

How Do You Find That Perfect Job?

Years after I had the most perfect job on the planet. I am trying to find that again. I wonder if you can catch the wave again.

Definition of Insanity

If you keep doing the same things over and over and expect different results. That was a definition of insanity. I heard it attributed to many different people. I think by that definition I am insane. I need to get out of this four year tale spin. I seemed to be hedged in.

Back to square one

I could repost the same blog's I wrote back in the fall of 2006. I seem stuck in the same rut. I know I can help a small business that's looking for someone to "run the show." It's just so hard to locate this opportunity. I really am stretching the limits of my faith.

The job hunt marches on.

I seemed to have hit a wall in my new career. The book print business is dying and I am hanging on to the last vestiges of the industry. Unless we are given the on-line part of the business to sell, we'll starve.
So, now my new strategy? I have to look to ways to make money. That's the object of a job. My brain hurts. Help!

Mountebank

This is a very good word to describe the guys at Crestcom. They scrapped and changed the marketing material I was relying on to get my business off the ground. Then they really didn't care that they had rolled out a bogus product and wouldn't do anything about it. Look up the definition of "mountebank" I simply say Hal.

Inspriration

Oh how I would love to own a business again. I don't have anything in mind right now. I think the time is right for the creativity and flexibility small business can bring. The time is right because after all the setbacks I encountered I won't be risking as much. As Janice Joplin put it "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." So I am looking.

College Degree Required

Its not so much that I don't have a college degree that it bothers me. What really makes me livid is that I am in SALES. I'm not in teaching, accounting, medicine or any field where one would think that a college degree would be a prerequisite. They didn't have a sales course at the time I would have went to college.If they did it would have been taught by a Marxist dope smoking professor in a tweed jacket. I learned sales and marketing through hands on experience and reading 100's of books and listening to hours of tapes/Cd's by salesman. No I did not go to college. I did work with and study my craft -in the real world. Well if they want that piece of paper that proves to them I have a brain then they need to watch the Wizard of Oz a couple more times until they get the point. I worked with educators for over 20 years. I did not have any trouble at all interacting with some of the highest level educators, publishers and authors. In fact with some people I met the higher level the education the less the sales/people skills seemed to be apparent. I think this requirement in sales is well quite frankly added on by someone who hasn't payed off there student loan and thinks if you didn't spend that money you got a free ride.

How to find a target

My biggest problem is finding a target to shoot at. I have so many skills and interests it's hard to focus. I have prayed about it but to no avail. I'm wondering what God is trying to tell me??

Resume

I have had to settle for a few jobs that could be best described as "bridge jobs," I am wondering how to explain them away on my resume. I know these are character building times. They are time that try men's souls. I am so ready to tackle that opportunity that leads somewhere. It has been 4 years off and on.

New Ways of Thinking

I have to come up with new ways of thinking in my career objective goals. Short mid and long term. Should I shoot for multiple jobs? Should I find a startup? I know that all starts with having a target. There lies the hard part. I have to find that one area that leads me out of this morass.

Just in the "Pursuit of Happiness."

I loved that movie. It showed me the real America. What I related to was when he bought those "Bone Density Scanners." I was ripped off too like that. Crestcom pushes that kind of thing while trampling on people's American dreams. Shame and blame on you people.

Employment Blues

Now in the ranks of the under-employed I'm just hanging in there. There are no permanent good jobs and the ones we get demand much and put in little. Pressure is great to push sales in area's that are profit making but not helping the customer at all. Like Radio Shack and the goofy service plans on items such as jump drives and MP3 players. Time Warner really pushed hard on dying land based phones, they punished 76 out of 77 people for not meeting the quota's. Stupid. Oh, well. If any potential employer see's this post and thinks this is all negativity, too bad. Clean up your act. Get fresh products, don't lie in your marketing and behave honestly and ethically. That is the only kind I will work for anyway. I think I may end up homeless, but at least I'll keep my integrity.