What's a Gal Gotta Do to Get a Job Around Here?

Fact: I am currently unemployed. Resolved: I will never, ever, put the following on any resume', curriculum vita or application: "Check out my blog!"

I was going to write this post about what it's been like to be unemployed for the past 9 months -- the longest I've gone without a job since I was 16, I think. And about mid-life career changes and how, unlike many folks my age, I HAVE followed my "passion" for the past twenty-something years, managed to make a meager (but always fun & interesting living), but now find myself zooming towards 50 with nary a nickle in retirement savings, and no health care.

Instead, I'm going to write about the picture I posted, and what that says about me. Here's the other one I was going to post instead:



Cute, right? Still makes the same point, but not nearly as offensive.

See the thing is, I have sort of a subversive sense of humor. I have been fortunate in that most of my work has been in the arts/theatre, where people like me are plentiful -- "birds of a feather" dontcha know. But out in the "real world" -- well, one must behave oneself, and conduct oneself in a manner befitting a professional. One must wear the proper attire and utilize power-point presentations whenever possible. One must exhibit a demeanor of seriousness at all times. One must hang out at the trendiest bars and get totally trashed every weekend. One must pretend.

Alas, my ability to pretend extends only so far. As Frank Zappa says "You ain't what you're not... you are what you is". And I is ... well, perhaps that's what I really have to figure out.