While the decision to close stores is difficult, it is necessary that we do so selectively in locations with declining sales and where we have been unable to identify sufficient growth opportunities.-Terry J. Lundgren, Macy’s Chief Executive Macy’s was never one of my favorite stores and it would make no difference to me if they closed them all. Wards closed and I don’t miss it. K-Mart is no longer in my market, and I don’t miss it. I have never been a big shopper at Dillards, Bloomingdale’s, Sak’s Fifth Avenue, or even Banana Republic. Much like Anne Hathaway’s clueless secretary…
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Blogvertise-the lure of easy money
Having found a few articles about blogging for dollars, I ran across Blogvertise, which says it will pay you to blog about stuff. Cool, I like blogging and I like getting paid. Seems I am not the only one. A cursory check of Google lead me to Blogger Jobs and then Blogvertise. I find it pretty interesting that there are all these blogs that want people to post on them.Now I have been writing one thing or another for the better part of my life. When not writing, I am reading about writing. But I have never made the small…
I love that New Job Smell
But I not getting a new job just yet. As always I am hoping that I will leave the regular rat race and become a self-employed rat, or a business owner rat, or something like that. In the mean time, I keep reading the want ads. As I may have mentioned, I am a professional photographer, just not the kind that gets his images on the cover of Vogue, or Newsweek, or even The National Enquirer. No, just a working stiff on the front lines at a big, heartless corp that makes Church Directories. Now I have a dream, that…
It’s so just a job
I don’t know what I expected, but the new job, new as in less than a year old, is much like all my other jobs. I am good at the job, not that taking portraits is exactly rocket science, but it does take a bit of practice to get it right. I am fast and have a bit of fun and I am making more money than I have ever made before. And yet, that doesn’t really matter as much as I had hoped it would. Before enlightenment, fetch wood and carry water-after enlightenment, fetch wood and carry water. I…