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Don’t Hate the Player

By Wahl, on June 4, 2010, at 6:51 pm | Comments are closed

Hate the game.

From our good friend Matthew Lewis over at The Bullied Pulpit via a recent Pew Research study:

Very interesting, but logical correlation.

Mr. Lewis’ commentary: Process over Policy, Pundits vs Political Scientists

The Pew Research Study w/ more graphs and info: It’s All About Jobs, Except When It’s Not [...]

The Job Hunt

By Wahl, on May 23, 2010, at 8:22 pm | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

It’s a process…

From: Pearls Before Swine

Tighty Whities

By Wahl, on March 10, 2010, at 4:12 pm | Comments are closed

Wernick calls and emails me his random business ideas about every other week (because he hates the idea of having to be a lawyer???). To date, I’ve rejected them all as completely idiotic. One of his most recent ones was trying to convince me that you could apply the Netflix subscription model to the [...]

Still There

By Wahl, on March 5, 2010, at 8:12 am | Comments are closed

I’ve posted this chart periodically over the last year. But it always help to have a little refresher when new jobs reports come out:

Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (-36,000) in February, and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment fell in construction [...]

Moving Into Enemy Territory

By Wahl, on February 11, 2010, at 9:10 am | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Home Sweet Home?

So, it’s not completely official, but I’m probably moving to Minneapolis in the near future.

I just got a call from The Hittman — he just got an offer accepted on a condo in Minneapolis. And he’s going to be my landlord come March/April once he closes on everything.

I [...]

Going Down for a Job Opp

By Wahl, on February 3, 2010, at 8:34 pm | Comments are closed

I’m this close to packing it up and moving down under to New Zealand (or is ‘down under’ exclusive to Australia?) to earn a living:

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A New Zealand teenager who says she auctioned her virginity online for $32,000 to raise tuition money did not break any laws but it might [...]

Sputtering

By Wahl, on January 14, 2010, at 3:56 pm | Comments are closed

We’re not there yet:

From supermarkets to department stores, sales fell 0.3 percent from November, a decline that economists attributed to a bleak jobs market and a reluctance by consumers to spend freely. Analysts, encouraged by signs that consumers were regaining confidence, had expected sales to rise 0.5 percent.

Consumer spending drives 70% of [...]

A New Year. A New Job?

By Wahl, on December 27, 2009, at 8:51 am | Comments are closed

$146/month to be a live-in protester in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Beijing. I’ve been to Beijing. It’s a great, great city. This job is as appealing as they come these days:

Wanted: One live-in protester, $146 a month, no days off.

When the managers of a Beijing restaurant marked for demolition were too busy [...]

It Only Makes AdSense

By Wahl, on October 16, 2009, at 8:06 am | Comments are closed

I’m trying out some Google ads with their AdSense program, because I can. I think get paid per 1000 views or 100 clicks or something like that. I imagine it’ll amount to pennies/month, if that, but I figured I’d try it out anyway just to see how things go.

So, you’ll see on the [...]

Adverse Feedback Loop

By Wahl, on October 12, 2009, at 11:19 am | Comments are closed

The Great Wahl is very versatile. I can switch from boiling beer pong balls to really nerdy econ discussions in just one post.

A lot of economic articles I follow have been talking about a “W”-shaped dip coming in the American economy. Jobs continue to drag on the economy, and unemployment continues to [...]