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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We had no idea how challenging it would be to live so far apart and how difficult<br />
it would be for Cindy to readjust to life in Omaha, living with her parents and taking care<br />
of our two small children, but we made the best of it.<br />
Even when we were sad, frustrated and just plain exhausted, we reminded each<br />
other of our past achievements, the positive aspects of our experience and the light at the<br />
end of the tunnel.<br />
Day to day, Cindy had to wake the children, make them breakfast, drive them to<br />
school, pick them up, provide activities, bathe them and beg them to go to sleep.<br />
It may not seem like much, but I could not do it on my own.<br />
Kids are demanding! They require constant love, attention, nurturing and<br />
discipline. I love my children and all children, but I have always worked with adults and<br />
am not sure if I would have the stamina and patience to spend all day, every day, taking<br />
care of children—even my own.<br />
What was Cindy’s reward for all I had put her through and for facing the new<br />
challenges in her life?<br />
When we had lived together and I had a good job, we would hire a baby-sitter<br />
every Saturday night and go out on the town. We would have the time of our lives. We<br />
would open Zagat’s restaurant guide, choose a restaurant, hop in a cab, order a couple of<br />
Cosmos and I would toast, “To the good life!”<br />
Cindy always winced when I said that and reminded me how things could be<br />
better—but I knew she was essentially happy and appreciated all we had accomplished.<br />
We had so much for which to be thankful!
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