Women going from jobless to topless
CHICAGO – As a bartender and trainer at a national restaurant chain, Rebecca Brown earned a couple thousand dollars in a really good week. Now, as a dancer at Chicago’s Pink Monkey gentleman’s club, she makes almost that much in one good night. via More women going from jobless to topless – Economy in Turmoil- [...]
America becoming less Christian
America is a less Christian nation than it was 20 years ago, and Christianity is not losing out to other religions, but primarily to a rejection of religion altogether, a survey published Monday found. via America becoming less Christian, survey finds – CNN.com. I guess I have to count myself in this survey. I would [...]
baseball player – traded for bats
Totally off topic from my usual posts but whew – this is a grim story that just makes you wonder about the human condition: “I guarantee this trade thing really bothered him. That really worried me,” said Dan Shwam, who managed Odom last year on the Laredo Broncos of the United League. “I really believe, [...]
missing weeks
It was as if the city had simply opened wide and swallowed her whole — until she was seen on a security camera at the Midtown Apple store checking her e-mail. Then she vanished again. And then reappeared, not only at the Apple store but also at a Starbucks and several New York Sports Clubs, [...]
Buffett reveals details of his worst year
Berkshire Hathaway reported today that its net worth fell in 2008 by $11.5 billion, a decline reducing its per-share book value by 9.6%. That was Berkshire’s worst result in the 44 years that Chairman Warren Buffett has run the company and, in fact, only the second decline in that period. via Warren Buffett reveals details [...]
topless dancer or nothing
“When you open the newspaper [want ads], unless you want to be a topless dancer, there’s nothing.” via Businesses in depressed Indiana town doubt Washington can help – CNN.com. Not much I can add to that quote!
unemployment diary
I’m fundamentally a creative type. I’ve sold a couple of written pieces, sold a few paintings, that kind of thing (over the last 10 years, nothing recent). I sank my creativity, my energy, my damed [sic] soul into that job, and in the end, I walked away with non-marketable skills in my head and the [...]
location independent lives
Mr. Ronai, 62, has owned an apartment on Riverside Drive in Manhattan for three decades. But since 2002 he has run his financial consultancy many weeks of the year from a home office perched at nearly 10,000 feet in the Elk Mountains of central Colorado. Although this lifestyle probably appeals to many, I am sure [...]
From earning six figures to hoping for $7 an hour – CNN.com
I think we’ll start seeing more stories like this in the media. I’d argue that the reality is not so much that this woman was a “true” six-figure earner; her earnings were vastly inflated and now we’re seeing a return to “normal” wages. In her best year as a mortgage broker, Laura Glick says she [...]
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