Got any stories to cheer me up? Advice on getting back in the saddle? Ideas as to how to spend my two weeks severance pay in the next two days and have nothing to show for it?
Let's hear 'em!
(sorry if this is in the wrong board. seemed appropriate.)
I was a property manager for a medium sized property management firm, I'm looking to get into Commercial Financial Analysis but anything in Commercial Real Estate would be sweet...
CaptainJim said:
I was a property manager for a medium sized property management firm, I'm looking to get into Commercial Financial Analysis but anything in Commercial Real Estate would be sweet...
I don't have experience with that industry, but in general here are a few things I learned:
Be sure you include your contact information and reference any job codes you see listed in ads you reply to on every piece of communication you send.
If you send your resume to a recruiter they may put you on a mailing list. That's actually a good thing, because even if the first few jobs they send notices about aren't the right one you could still find a great opportunity that way. Don't opt out until you're happily employed. Even after you're employed you may still be eligible for referral bonuses if you send a notice to a friend and they get the job.
If you include your resume as an attachment it pays to also copy and paste the text of your resume into the body of your email message just in case they have trouble opening it.
Do not let spell check think for you. That's how one poor bastard wound up sending out a cover letter that began, "Dear Human Recourse Reprehensive."
The last time I was laid off (3 times over the years) I had no ride home because I drove a company car and had to leave it. They called me a car and I stole all the liquor and glassware from it before I got out.
The driver knew it too, he gave me what he had up front and told me he'd bill them for everything.
Whenever your down on the slums just go Hunter S Thompson on the world. Vegas and drugs, it always makes a good combination. Sure you might feel like crap after your done, but you will have good memories from it.
Hmm. I'd say order some Chinese and watch some comedy. But that's just because it's cheaper than an all nighter binger involving $2700 bar bills* and strippers...
*see Bartending group for the SG member who ran this up...
Doghouse_Reilly said:
Call in to AM radio talk shows and rant incoherently.
Yes, I do promote AM Coast To Coast With Art Bell.
The one and only time I listened to that show, on a late night drive through Pine Bush, N.Y., (a supposedlly haunted town) a guy called in and said he could speak in some ancient tongue, so the host asked him to do it. It was structured, fluid, demonic- and ancient-sounding, and definitely sounded like some long-dead language. Freakiest shit I have ever heard.
I think all you need is one solid night of booze. Keep it under $100. Relax for a couple days to let it sink in, then.... Well, that's as far as I've gotten.
It's funny but in the UK getting 'made redundant' happens so often it's not such a big event. This is because we have the world's largest stockpile of clueless assholes that don't know how to run a business. Plus the economy of the UK seems to be pretty set against helping you make a success of your new business.
BadStoryDan
Vancouver, BC
January 2005
JUN 06, 2005 06:46 PM