Am I overreacting here? A Monday after Thanksgiving and despite all the encouraging words both recruiters gave me on Wednesday the argument could be, well, it’s the first business day after the four day holiday weekend. Everyone’s just getting back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I didn’t have room to get into the details of what Shorkey Auto has done to the area where the neighborhood I grew up at. He bought land around half of the neighborhood, removed all the trees and flattened the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I hope I’m not coming off as rude or ungrateful here, after all this MAY lead to an interview and possibly a job. But after nearly two years of applying and applying for jobs, and getting contacted by recruiters who[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was a frustrating day. I’ve been drawing a comic everyday since I was laid off from Siemens on 9/4/2021 and if you’ve read any of my comics back in 2015, I drew comics that described the difficulty of finding[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s true when I say that I don’t want to get my hopes up too high. I’m 61 and out of work. Back in 2015 when K’NEX let me go (which can be seen in my comics from 2015) it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I guess I could place the lack of lots of artist and graphic designer job openings to the fact that it’s only a couple weeks after Christmas. That many businesses are still in the holiday mode. Or, I could place[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, I’ve been drawing these comics long enough that the story of my worst job interview has been told in comic form. It began three days before when this unfortunate event occurred. The next day, while planning my route to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ve had the good fortune to not have had to look for a job over the past 5, 10 years then what I’m saying in these comics, especially todays comic, may sound like a foreign language to you. But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m happy with how the drawings turned out for this one. I didn’t bother drawing thumbnails or sketched it out on the entire page. I just went straight to the page from panel one thru five without laying to out,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Does this entire diatribe mean I won’t apply to any Contract Jobs? Well, It’s been almost four months since my job was taken away and sent to India, and though I’ve applied to 70+ jobs I still haven’t even gotten[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…