The Ups and downs of searching for a job. Yes, I was surprised that Clayton Kendall responded, but that they responded quickly and not with an e-mail but with a phone call. The person who called wasn’t someone from HR[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s not much more I could add here. I looked back 365 days prior to this day to see what I wrote on this comic’s 11th anniversary and here’s what I wrote then: As I say in this comic, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, I’m still down about this comic getting rejected, once again. Should I dare to compare my work to that of Keith Knight or Paige Braddock? Normally I wouldn’t, because I tend not to push my work or myself, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After I graduated art school in 1981 I attempted several comic strips that I wrote, drew and submitted to syndicates. They were all rejected. While working days as a package designer at Hasbro in the 80’s and as an Illustrator[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After sitting through that “interview” yesterday (and I put interview in quotes because it really didn’t feel like a conversation between two people in order to question and evaluate) and reading her feedback, I don’t know why that woman from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The cynic in me thinks that they purposely make the process to apply for extended benefits difficult so that most people will just throw their hands up in the air and quit. Or wind up doing what I probably did[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ve had the good fortune to not have had to look for a job over the past 5, 10 years then what I’m saying in these comics, especially todays comic, may sound like a foreign language to you. But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The reason I’m feeling down and depressed today is because that one company that I interviewed with rejected me and I haven’t heard back from the other one yet. But, if truth be told, the real reason I’ve got the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It wasn’t a good news day today. First, I still don’t know how those yellow jackets are getting in here and where they’re coming from. But they’re back again. Also, the ants. Usually they start showing up in my kitchen,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You’d think I would have learned by now. You’d think I’d remembered all the jobs I’ve applied to (since 2015, when all this rash of unemployment began) that I either never heard back from or was flat out told no.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…