Just friended a former manager tonight – we don’t work for the same firm any more, so I consider it ok. He’s thankful, happy and lucky. Lots of things I have read seem to indicate that’s a decision – you can decide, you can choose to be thankful, happy and lucky.
Sometimes I think this is a crock. Sometimes I think it’s not fair to make people who are caught in circumstances that are thankless, miserable and hapless feel guilty for yet another perceived failure – that being the failure to decide, to choose, to just say “It is so!” and that makes it so. Reality doesn’t work that way and we all know it.
These same people would argue with me that reality is the illusion – o rly? Try telling that to debt collectors, to the mortgage company when you cannot pay them, to the sherrif when he’s removing your shit from your house. “Really officer, this eviction notice is only an illusion. POOF, the eviction notice is gone, cause I decided it is so. See?”
Yarite. I think your ass would be in the psyche ward for an evaluation if you did that. IT JUST DOESN’T WORK THIS WAY!
Don’t think this is really a memo, just think it’s funny 
I have a terrible, AWFUL time sleeping lately. I know it’s related to the whole job situation and “what should I be when I grow up” and all that. I’m not actually worried that I won’t find employment, but I don’t want to just do what I’ve been doing, simply because I can’t resolve this question at the ridiculous age of nearly 50. I take this one to mean that once whatever/whomever is coming gets here, I will have entered the Pleasantville of blissful, unassisted slumber as in days of yore, when I could sleep damned near anywhere. Well one can only hope, cause this looking at the backside of 3:00 am every day is really getting old.
This is SO timely! The time draws near for the next round of layoffs in favor of off-shoring jobs to India. I could use some advice about my next move. Thank you, US Postal Service
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Several weeks ago, I was shocked to have received an invite in the mail to join AARP. well, this is after all the year I turn 50…
Recognizing that discounts are useful, i joined. i received my welcome kit in the mail but didn,t have time to go through it. Just randomly opened the membership benefits handbook and what do you think I found? They’ve got a job training and placement service!
Thanks, AARP
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I’m sitting here redeeming a pile of iTunes freebies from Starbucks, and I get the Memo when I get to the Patty Griffin card. The song is “Little Fire”. So I google the lyrics:
All that I want is one who knows me
A kind hand on my face when I weep
And I’d give back these things I know are meaningless
For a little fire beside me when I sleep
Yes, please
