Experienced MIT Grad For Hire
Just as I was motivated to a start my blog www.oracleofny.com to keep in touch with the hundreds of people from around the world who contacted me by email and telephone with words of encouragement and job leads after my sign board publicity initially went viral, I was motivated to write a book after I eventually landed a job and hundreds more people contacted me proclaiming I was an inspiration and seeking job hunting advice. During the cold, lonely winter nights and on weekends, while my wife and children were in Omaha and I was working at an accounting firm in NYC, I started writing Experienced MIT Grad For Hire based on my personal experience and career coach Paloma Bowland’s transformational advice. I wanted to share my inspirational story and give encouragement to the many people who gave me encouragement when I needed it most — during my long stretch of unemployment. I wanted to reach out to people all over the world with words of help and hope. Even a year and a half after my photograph and story first went public, they continued to circulate the globe — and even a year after I started working again, many people asked for the details of my inspirational act, unique job search, what I learned and where it had taken me. I realized that I enjoy — and am good at — helping others, so I decided to share the tools I learned from my experience — to inspire people to think and act in new ways to land a job. Anyone who is looking for a job or who could use a bit of personal inspiration may be interested in my informative tale of creativity, bravery, perseverance and practical job hunting advice.
Just as I was motivated to a start my blog www.oracleofny.com to keep in touch with the hundreds of people from around the world who contacted me by email and telephone with words of encouragement and job leads after my sign board publicity initially went viral, I was motivated to write a book after I eventually landed a job and hundreds more people contacted me proclaiming I was an inspiration and seeking job hunting advice.
During the cold, lonely winter nights and on weekends, while my wife and children were in Omaha and I was working at an accounting firm in NYC, I started writing Experienced MIT Grad For Hire based on my personal experience and career coach Paloma Bowland’s transformational advice.
I wanted to share my inspirational story and give encouragement to the many people who gave me encouragement when I needed it most — during my long stretch of unemployment. I wanted to reach out to people all over the world with words of help and hope.
Even a year and a half after my photograph and story first went public, they continued to circulate the globe — and even a year after I started working again, many people asked for the details of my inspirational act, unique job search, what I learned and where it had taken me.
I realized that I enjoy — and am good at — helping others, so I decided to share the tools I learned from my experience — to inspire people to think and act in new ways to land a job.
Anyone who is looking for a job or who could use a bit of personal inspiration may be interested in my informative tale of creativity, bravery, perseverance and practical job hunting advice.
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versus cost of living. I had never thought about moving to Texas but I was suddenly<br />
intrigued.<br />
In early September, within days after leaving my sublet in Manhattan and moving<br />
to my sister’s house in Larchmont, I took an early morning flight from Westchester<br />
Airport to Dallas to meet with Charlie and the gang.<br />
When I walked in the door of the Southwest Texas Capital’s offices in Plano, I<br />
was in for a real treat.<br />
Charlie quickly offered me a can of Loco Tonic, an energy drink he had invented<br />
and was promoting for the Latino market—and things took off from there.<br />
One by one, I met with Charlie and his entrepreneurial partners. As awkward as I<br />
felt being in an environment very different from what I was used to in corporate New<br />
York, Charlie and his gang made me feel right at home. Their charm and charisma were<br />
enticing—or was it the Loco Tonic?<br />
Besides Loco Tonic, the firm had several other interesting projects in the works,<br />
including a startup called RX HBO which sold hyperbaric chambers for chronic wound<br />
care and a municipal bond hedge fund.<br />
At the end of a long and interesting day, Charlie astounded me when after flying<br />
me in for an interview, he told me he would love to hire me but did not have any money<br />
to pay me.<br />
“Would you consider working for commissions?” he asked.<br />
I was already in touch with several boutique investment banks in New York City<br />
who were considering giving me a platform from which to work but no base salary. It<br />
was called eat what you kill.
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