I mentioned in an earlier post on being your own boss that I have a former colleague that left a six figure job to do his own thing creating targeted minisites. I got an email from him today linking to an article in DN Journal talking about his new community site business. Bruce had a great idea to target small [...]
Continuing health coverage through COBRA is considerably more complex than getting it through your employer. When you are employed, the company takes money out of your paycheck and pays the health insurance company. Pretty simple. When you go on COBRA it inserts one (or more as I found out) organizations in that process. Typically, the [...]
This post is outside the normal topics of this blog but since I use Wordpress2.8 I thought it was worth sharing. I recently tried to install the Feedsmith plugin. The upload went okay but when I tried to activate the plugin I got an error that said something about ‘not being able to find the header.’ [...]
To me the biggest problem about being unemployed (after the loss of income, obviously) is boredom. I am used to working 10 hour days and not having a minute that wasn’t scheduled. Now, all I have is free time. As I said before there is only so much time you can spend on monster.com or [...]
So, I got a call from a recruiter a few weeks back looking for a Pre-sales engineer for public radio systems. It might still be open. Contact her at SFine@ElectronicSearch.com if you fit the bill.
Ever worked with a recruiter and have them get you interested in one of their searches only to never hear from them again. It happens to everybody (unless you are Somebody like, say, Bill Gates.) Well, here is a revelation. You are not their customer or their friend. You are simply the commodity they are selling. [...]
Now that you are looking for a job have you noticed how many jobsites there are out there. I have literally spent all day going from site to site searching for jobs. There are even sites who aggregate jobs from other sites (excuse me if I state the obvious.) One of the best I found [...]
If you have been laid off before you probably know about COBRA. If not, COBRA essentially allow you to continue with your employer health insurance for up to 18 months. The good news is that you get to keep your coverage. The bad news is that you have to pay for it all yourself. If [...]
Ever wish you could leave the corporate rat race and be your own boss? Well, guess what, now that you are unemployed it is the perfect time to fulfill your dream. Sound like BS? Think about it for a minute. Starting your own venture doesn’t have to take away from looking for a job. You [...]
First things first. I am unemployed but I am not a bum (though my wife may not share that opinion.) I have worked in high tech for over 25 years doing everything from engineering to running a $100M business unit. In the last five years I have been laid off three times. Two were start-up [...]
