OT: Taking control of my life

[keith smith]

These are tough times.  I have read that a lot more people will become self employed.  I work for myself and find it the best situation for me.  I like the freedom.  I never liked working in an office.

It comes with it's challenges and  there are things like bookkeeping and taxes that will eat up some of your time.  You will need a CPA and if you hire some one W2 there are hoops to jump though.  All in all it is a good way to go from my perspective.  Even if you stay small and do programming or LAMP support, it beats the office grind, in my opinion.

I would encourage anyone who is unemployed to think of how they might re-invent themselves. 

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Keith Smith

--- On Sat, 7/31/10, Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com> wrote:

From: Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com>
Subject: Re: OT: Taking control of my life
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010, 2:13 AM

Good luck my friend and do not give up. It is a hard road. I have two degrees and decades of experience and I was unemployed for almost two years. Technically I still am but it looks very good that that will change in a few weeks. But it took that long of constant search to find something. And even then it took some one I knew to make it happen.


On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Technomage <technomage.hawke at gmail.com> wrote:

Well,

I have had rather a lot to do this last 2 weeks. I am finally tired of living the life of

"poor and blind" and am now seeking to change my circumstances.



This "life changing" decision came rather rapidly after an eye infection set in this

last week (requiring a trip to the hospital).



So, I've been hitting careerbuilder.com and the state and city HR offices.



If anyone on here has any job openings for a blind keyboardist who can answer phones,

to basic tech support stuff (windows, linux, OS X) I would appreciate hearing from you.



I am tired of being unemployed and without the things i need in life. So how about it?

anyone got any openings I can do?



I am having to rewrite my resume to cover what I can do and what i am going to

get trained to be able to do (thanks to http://www.abil.org/).



So, I implore you, if anyone has any employment i can do that will  work with my

taking the bus, I woud really like to hear from you. If anyone has any suggestions on how I

can improve my resume (and make a good cover letter to go with it), I would definitely

appreciate hearing from you.



In case anyone is wondering why i am writing this to the list... Its simple; I got tired of having

"given up" and I really want a job and I will do whatever it takes to get it now. My only

impedance on this path is lack of funds. So, how about it? any takers, helpers or suggestions?



- Eric (aka mage or hawke for those that remember me).



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