hot links

so…listening to amos lee’s ‘keep it loose, keep it tight’ and just having sent a bunch of job links to a new acquaintance…i decided to share.

good luck…think BIG…and be positive. from the author of a pretty cool series of career help books this link is to his site that has a ton of info.

so, thank him if something works out…

http://www.knockemdead.com/internet_resources.php

just the other day

just the other freakin day i trained my outsourcer. outsourcing sucks and it is ripping our economy to bits. the guy was adorable and extremely nice. we even chatted up a bit about columbus weather, music and stuff. but this nice guy is a part of this massive undertaking that is shipping US jobs overseas. i won’t have a job because of this. news reports say that this year alone 85,000 jobs have been cut…it is only MARCH. although i’m not sure how much of this is due to outsourcing….OUTSOURCING HAS GOT TO STOP. homeland security? how are we protected if our information is hotwired across the globe? HOW??? and you think i’m voting for mccain? uh…NO. you think i want a continuation of these last 8 shameful years in this great country? HELL NO….DOUBLE HELL NO. as to the obama fiasco with reverend wright…who cares, really. i don’t agree with 100% of what ANYBODY SAYS, not even my pastor. who says obama doesn’t have a mind of his own…have you ever seen him carry out any of that stuff since he’s been on the senate? have you?

okay….i feel lots better now…is ‘dancing with the stars on’ … isn’t that marlee matlin freakin awesome?

– obama outsourcing teamsters endorsement
(Washington, D.C.) – Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa announced today the union’s endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for president. The endorsement is the first step in mobilizing the union’s 1.4 million members and their families to elect Obama.

“Senator Obama understands the challenges working people face every day,” Hoffa said. “He is the candidate in the best position to lead our movement to restore the American dream for working people in this country. Senator Obama will fight for better wages, real health care reform, stronger retirement security, fair trade and an end to the outsourcing of good jobs. He understands the importance of giving workers a voice at work and will fight for strong unions to help rebuild America’s middle class.”

The endorsement decision follows a meeting in Austin, Texas, between Hoffa and Obama, and completes a months-long process that included scientific polling of Teamster members, surveys of local union and joint council leaders and deliberations by the union’s democratically elected General Executive Board.

“We have been fortunate to have candidates throughout the Democratic primary who are friends of working families and the Teamsters Union,” Hoffa said. “We are pleased that all of the Democratic candidates have focused on issues of importance to working people, including wages, health care, retirement security, fair trade and outsourcing.”

The union’s endorsement immediately activates the union’s 50-state election program, with special emphasis on swing states.

“Senator Obama will stand with the Teamsters when it comes to fighting for working families,” Hoffa said. “This endorsement begins a partnership to change America. Together we will reinvent the political process and give a voice to those who have been ignored by the Bush administration for the past eight years.”

Hoffa emphasized Obama’s commitment to rebuilding and strengthening the national transportation infrastructure, a key priority of the Teamsters Union.

“Senator Obama will fight to rebuild our transportation infrastructure,” Hoffa said. “He will work with us to address critical issues from our ports to our highways, rails and airports. We need a president who is focused on rebuilding America and Barack Obama will be that president.”

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents more than 1.4 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

http://www.teamster.org/08news/nr_080220_6.asp

aspartame…is it making you sick?

to make an incredibly long…slightly horrific story short…i hate aspartame. it is a sweetening substance found in some foods like diet sodas, gum and yogurt.

aspartame literally makes me ill. several years back i had ingested my fair share thinking that by doing so i was on some better healthy less sugary life plan only to find that my health began to deteriorate and not one of the five doctors i saw throughout that year could diagnose the illness. it took a lot of time, money and me feeling like i was on the verge of death to find an alternative doctor who simply asked me about my diet. during my first visit with her, she simply asked me what i was eating everyday…i told her and she quickly isolated the problem to be aspartame. she told me to take a few supplements, and ban aspartame from my diet. my health rapidly improved.

*side note…if you or someone you know is suffering with something a doctor, a regular doctor is not effectively treating or the improvement process is lacking…try an alternative doctor. also some regular doctors also practice alternative healing. the only trick is that currently a lot of insurance plans do not cover alternative medicine, unfortunately…but i would rather be well and indebt than ill. funny how that goes and our healthcare debacle…but that’s a whole issue in and of itself. and i’ll spare you that…well for right now, anyway.

here are some articles on aspartame. and i love gum….and i cannot find any gum except for big red that does not contain this wicked substance….except when i go to trader joe’s or whole foods.

http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html#symptoms

http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-sweeteners.html

http://www.michigan-pku.org/which_chewing_gum_is_safe.htm

i’m looking for a new…

it’s flippin cold outside, snow up to the arse and i’m listening to a jazzyslow downer by leela james. ohio-land is a wintery mess today. we are under some type a level. whatever. and i’m still grinding out the tales of job jizzy (a frantic, frenetic job search that has been all but fruitless) ‘cuz i get easily off pace and distracted and i hate being confined when joy…joy isn’t involved. the economy/job market is screwy to say the least and we learned in a meeting a couple weeks ago that our jobs are heading to india…when they get rid of us sometime early summer. nice!!

so i’ve debated paying someone two to three hundred dollars to rewrite/reconstruct
my resume. not a crazy sum…but crazy if nothing happens. so…i’m currently analyzing job postings and plugging into my rez…what the employer wants…that i have. sounds simple enuff. i suppose i’ll see.

looking out the window…simple enuff.

but what’s a girl supposed to do when what she really wants to do is be on location making her own film, sitting in a loft in new york city entertaining and sitting on the floor of her massive window that overlooks the city, or learning to surf in LA, or running for a train in chicago, or being john mayer or ani difranco or van hunt or lenny kravitz’s guitar tuner number 50, or front row at a jill scott or ledisi show, or being a copy editor for simon and schuster or working for a non-profit, or writing travel, music and or film reviews for a publication, or being angelina jolie’s stand-in (yeah…far fetched indeed-have you even seen the prevs for her new film???!?!) or ordering a nice lite meal in miami, while sitting outside and watching all the beautiful people walking hotly by, or flying to the south of france or brazil or somewheres….aye…

simple enuff.