"Let's Get Ready to Rumble" (WWF)

Originally, I began this blog to discover what other people's experiences have been, while interviewing, and working. Frankly, I wondered if other people have had the same or similar beefs/complaints as I did. After watching some YouTube videos about work stress, a few of which you can find in the lower left column, I remembered: EVERYONE HAS WORK ISSUES! It was right then that I decided to take myself a little less seriously, and just make this a let's-just-sit-back-&-relax-&-try-to-find-a-decent-gig-&-take-comfort-in-the-fact-that-somewhere-out-there,-there's-someone-more-miserable-than-us site!
Net Positive:

Recently, I discovered that some recruiting practices that I had believed were unfair, actually are commonly accepted norms. Specifically, I had thought that networking was a biased way to recruit. (Don't get ticked off just yet. I know that many of you got your jobs by networking. I'm not judging. I'm just jealous. Apparently, everyone's doing it (except me)!
[Note to self: GET SOME FRIENDS! ... Yet another good reason to join the socialnetworkingosphere (Note to you the reader... I've got 1st dibs on that 23 letter word. I'm hereby coining that one... I think that I'll also take this moment to coin socialnetosphere, & blogovoyeur: someone who watches, or follows a blog. (Not to be confused w/blogojovichovoyeur: someone who likes to watch Roddy B. make a fool of himself.))]
Net Loss:

Over the years, I've had several jobs, and thus far only one career. Little of this employment had anything to do with my aspirations, or education. Despite tailoring resumes to literally thousands of employers, to begin my CAREER, I have always had to take work wherever & whenever jobs presented themselves. However, my acceptance of part-time, temporary, contract, and project work did not scream, "Here's an industrious person!" Nor, did it lend comfort to recruiters, (even those at temp agencies!!!) who seek continuity of employment, and solid references from candidates.
Regarding the aforementioned, "career work"... I just fell into it; by (unintentionally/ironically) networking. It's frightening now, when I look back, to see how many times it happened that I had been offered a job because someone knew someone I knew. Anywho, at that network-derived one-time career firm, our executives worked so hard (around the clock), and were so productive that we were named #1 in our field. Unfortunately, the competition--a big fat conglomerate--bought our company's assets to garner the firm's reputation; the conglomerate hired the CEO, gave him a big fat salary & a non-compete, & left the rest of our "team" out in the cold. We had worked ourselves right out of usefulness (You might think that there's a UNION story in there somewhere... but there's not.) This company had been started during the Internet boom years, and we were all really eager just to be a part of it. We'd signed on as, "independent contractors" to be hired full time, if after three months we demonstrated worthiness, and a commitment to the firm and the work. Three years and a multitude of abuses later, we were all accepting the reality that the stock options we'd been promised didn't exist. We were just wondering if we would even get backpay; and, forget about getting references from someone who screws you.

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