Category: Business

  • Why Being Mistaken For a Younger Age is Not a Compliment

    Why Being Mistaken For a Younger Age is Not a Compliment

    People frequently think I am 10 to 20 years young than I am. At first you may think it’s a compliment. I have no wrinkles, I dye my hair, I suffer from cystic acne, I use the latest tech and coding techniques, and I can move very fast. These are all young traits. A man…

  • I am Eating Chicken for Breakfast Again Today

    I woke up this morning and couldn’t walk. Let me back up…I’ve been neglecting this blog for two reasons, time is money and frankly my life has been boring. We not boring but whiny. It’s bad enough I’ve been subjecting my Twitter and Facebook followers to the pain I’m in and the the medication I’m…

  • The Plan

    So here’s the game plan. Decided to quit and become a writer full time. X Tell work so they have time to hire someone else who I can train. X Update and re-design my website – in process Put aside a 1 – 2 paycheck buffer so I can pay myself on the same schedule…

  • Smackdown: Thanks for all the Encouragement

    Holy shit! Thank you all for the words of encouragement. Some of you might find this funny (some may have have no idea why this is weird) but I told my mother my plans. For the very first time in my life she said go for it. She’s never encouraged me to do anything risky,…

  • Repetition – Things I’ve Learned About Finance

    I’ve begun adding more reps to my Wii Fit strength training exercise. It’s something you unlock as you go, but you have to choose them to do more. Today I started choosing the higher reps I’ve unlocked…I did fairly well. I’m still on only six reps for side planks…those are hard. Midway through the exercise…

  • Business as Cult

    You know you are walking into a bad situation when the all of the workers are in the midst of singing the store anthem. This mode of business brainwashing is largely taken on in America by large chain stores (Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc), and scam/pyramid companies (Equinox). Many scams come under the guise of Direct…

  • I Hear You Las Vegas

    Apparently, Las Vegas wants me. A week does not go by that some casino, real estate broker, or strip club spams my guest book…mostly with links that do not work. Usually the post is about something different. Once some one even denounced the other posters while hiding the Las Vegas links in words like here…

  • Lament for the Jobless

    I stood in the pit of despair among skyscrapers, dressed in a frumpy green dress from the previous summer. Young urbanites surrounded me in their latest fashion work clothes. Tiny computerized cell phones in hand, laptops at hip, brief cases over shoulder, they were infinitely more prepared for the world at large than I. That…

  • Technical Support Gems

    In the field of tech support we get some wonderful calls. People with misconceptions call us all the time. People with nothing better to do call us more often. Here are a few of my more outrageous calls. I am a Black Woman!!! Me: Thank you for calling Hewlett Packard Tech Support, My name is…

  • Technical Support FAQ

    A guide you make your call less painless for both you and the Technical Agent..V 1.7 So your computer is having problems, or maybe it’s your printer, or software or video card or whatever. It really does not matter, but you’ve done everything you possibly know how and nothing works. You groan in horror as…