Five Things I Learned Creating A Resume

There comes a time in most people's lives where they will have to fill out a resume. This is never a fun process. It either points out that you have had some pretty shitty jobs, too many jobs, not enough jobs or experience, or in plain print shows you the bad career choices you've made. Here is a post I wrote previously about what I learned being unemployed. Click here to read that.

In this Five Things I Learned Creating A Resume I'm gonna talk about all the good, the bad, and the lies that comes along with creating a resume that will hopefully land you that sweet job sitting behind the desk all day writing on Facebook and complaining about how your talents are being wasted while your boss is paid three times as much as you and is so dumb they don't even know you're not working.

Five Things I Learned Being Unemployed

Ever since the economy turned to shit back in 2008 I’ve been half employed. Yeah, I have a job but its never permanent. Working as an assistant editor I can go from job to job but I cant at this point in my life say that I have a full time job. During these last four years I have been unemployed and from November 2008 to February 2010 did not have a job. That was one of the most difficult parts of my life and something I wish to never repeat.

I learned a lot of shit when I wasn’t working about my friends, my spending habits, my mind, and myself. Earlier this year there was a two month period where I didn’t have a job and started to feel myself slip back into that unemployed mind state and realized that I needed to shut that shit down immediately. I didn’t but I did have help from friends. Here is a list of five things I learned while being unemployed. Hope it helps some of you out and me if I ever end up not working again.

Rosscast Episode 197: Almost Famous

In this episode I talk about my week, the problems with unemployment, why I don’t want to be famous, celebrities breaking up all of a sudden, a creepy ass service that calls and tells you that they love you, a shooting in my neighborhood, a dude getting arrested and saying the opposite of what you should say when being arrested, Alicia Keys having a baby, my new podcast with Alex called The DNA Show, the good food I’ve eaten (click here to see), and I play a clip of Josh Smith speaking about celebrity. Click here to download this and older Rosscast shows and click here to check out Alex’s original blog. Enjoy!

Rosscast Episode 8: "What Do You Do?"

Are you ready for a boregasm?! In the most depressing episode yet, I discuss looking for work and why being asked a simple question can fuck up my day. Enjoy!

Never Enjoyed Being Unemployed...

Sometimes you expect things to happen one way and they go another. Like, for the past few weeks I have been waiting for my unemployment check. I should take a photo of my fridge as proof of how bad things have gotten. I think I saw a tumble weed in there last week…

Anyhoot, so I was expecting my check last week. Mind you, in the past 3 months I have not worked I have only gotten two checks. One for 1 weeks pay and the other for 2. The worse thing is how small they are. They are literally half of what I used to get. Now, when you realize that I was making it by barely most weeks this makes life even more interesting. So when my check didn’t come it made me freak out a bit.

I hate to admit it but money affects my mood. I don’t like money. I wish I lived in a world where I went to work and my rent was paid automatically. That I could come home and food just popped into the fridge because I worked. So, I’m just waiting for this check that turns out was not coming for the past couple weeks and sweating balls. I got a letter from the unemployment office saying they are gonna call. So I’m looking online and seeing what you’re supposed to say during interviews and everyone has one rule:

Tell the truth.

Not a problem. I just wanted to get my money! So the call was for today between 8am and 10am. The called around 8:44am. The lady was really nice and polite and so was I. It took a couple of minutes and it turned out there was a small mistake on my part. The cool thing is that as soon as I get my check next week I have to send the next one in as soon as possible. I am feeling a bit better. I hate worrying about paying rent.

I called my lady’s church to speak to a counselor. I have been feeling too flip floppy with my emotions and wanna do something about it before I get too damned low. I have times where I’m really good. I’m laughing, talking, being creative. But the times where I’m down are getting too bad and coming too frequently. I have to do something about it. I talked to a lady for a few minutes and they are gonna call me back next week to set me up with someone to speak to in person.

One thing I liked was the questions. Drugs, sexual, spiritually, depression, all of these things were touched upon and I’m not getting drunk or high to deal with this. That seems to be the opposite of what you should do. I don’t even drink when I am upset. I don’t wanna meet that Dante. Okay, I think I am done for now. Take care, everyone.

Rockets.