The Wannabe

Changing my mind more often than I change my son’s diaper

Archive for May, 2007

For the Love of Therapists

I love therapists. I mean, here’s a person who’s chosen to be polite, friendly, and supportive as a career! Here’s a person who has to be a good listener and good at giving advice in order to be successful! And the best part is, you can tell them anything and you know they’ll never tell [...]

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What’s wrong with corporate America? Seriously, what exactly is wrong with growing a corporate empire? Steve Jobs (founder of Apple) at one time made money selling phones out of the trunk of his car, Michael Dell (founder of Dell) started his company in his college dorm room with only $1000 start-up money, and Sam Walton [...]

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Lean Pockets

I’m usually pretty touched when I hear stories of people losing a lot of weight. Even if I know it’s just a cheap plug for a product, it’s still amazing to hear, “I lost 40 pounds, and I couldn’t have done it without [insert product name here].” I think the key to this type of [...]

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Beef Hamburgers

So my co-workers and I were talking about the delicious meal we had last night at The Roadhouse Grill when one of them said, “Ooooh, filet mignon!” in the style of Homer Simpson. Only when he said it he actually pronounced it like it was spelled (i.e. fi-let mig-non). This brought up a memory of [...]

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Agents

So this book writing thing is harder than I thought. I’m not talking about actually writing the book, I’m talking about the process to get it published. I’ve discovered that no major publishing house accepts “unsolicited proposals.” In other words, you have to find an agent first who will then send your book to the [...]

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