I was born in New York, and that is also where I went to college. but have lived in Connecticut since the year 2000, where I moved to, chasing a dream of working for WWE. Being 48 years old and having been shuffled around by employers who, have laid off people in my generation as if we were simply disposable, time and again. First the initial dot coms who hired us, then started falling like dominoes, then companies that started combining three jobs into one, (And as someone who has an extensive background in copywriting, I can tell you, for a fact, there is a reason we used to have a copywriter, an editor, and a proofreader – and that is because when you look at your own work for too long, you can no longer easily identify mistakes, because you have looked at it so many times. We have been through a major recession, and when the very same companies that laid us off were hiring again, they asked us why we changed our occupations around that time, seemingly haven forgotten they laid us off, and chose to hire the lucky few who managed to hang on.
If you haven’t looked at a job site recently, please take a gander: Sure, there are a lot of jobs out there… if you can live on minimum wage, work full time, be available nights, weekends – and even on call! (And do not require benefits, as that would be out of line, oh, and you need 10 years of experience in programs that have not existed that long, maybe do some light cleaning, walk the dog, and use Quickbooks? No? Only similar programs that you taught yourself? Never mind… you are simply unqualified for this job, which, by the way, I would pay you less for if only the state wouldn’t force me to pay you this amount.) So they keep listing these jobs over and over, not because, as you hear on the news, “nobody wants to work” – because, I assure you, many of us do, and we want to work hard, and are quite reliable, creative, able to work anywhere (at one company short on space, I literally worked in a closet they’d removed the door from)… I’ve also worked from home, using my bed as my desk, because I lived in a small apartment with no room for a desk.
So… after being laid off for the umpteenth time – and taken completely by surprise by this - It left me in this situation, which led me to this idea: what if I bundled up all my knowledge and skills, and offered them to people, locally?
So… what do you think? Have I caught your interest? Check out my list of services offered -- and also see if you can come up with some I may not even realize I have (such as today, I realized a friend trained me in classic comic book inking, using calligraphy pens and India ink. How many people do you know who can do that?)
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