Author: redpenguinweb

As we journey through this experience called life we are all challenged in many ways with hits, trials and tests on every side. It seems that once we muster the faith and the courage to overcome one issue, we get hit with another one! But, the truth is that these are only mere distractions to …

Do you remember when you were the youngest person in the office? I’m sure you do. Everyone was friendly and willing to let you in. Now, you’re one of the oldest, and younger people frequently distance themselves from you. Worse, you may be unemployed and wondering how you get a new job with most of …

From Labor Day Jokes and Funny Stories In honor of Labor Day, here’s a first-person report of someone who was not quite as successful as he had hoped to be in the job market: As a young man: My first job was in an orange juice factory, but I couldn’t concentrate on the same old …

You’re so happy in your work. You’ve just finished working long hours on that project which was a big hit with the firm’s biggest client. After a restful weekend spent basking in the sunlight of a job well done, you go in to work on a seemingly average Monday, make the usual complaints about the fact that …

As someone who has recently been eliminated in a cost-cutting measure by a large organization, it takes a certain amount of personal growth to not take it personally. The phrase “it’s just business” is a weak excuse for management to excuse the fact that they have not led an organization to success. I have seen …

My name is Jane Vassil and I grew up in New York City in Astoria, Queens. Throughout my life, starting at a very young age, I was faced with several issues that had skyrocketed over time and finally disabled me when I was in my late 50’s. I was always, and still am, a very …

Well, here I am. Sixty-seven years old and wondering what the hell happened! It was not supposed to be like this. I was promised happily ever after and a house with a white picket fence! Where’s my knight in shining armor? Why are the kids still here? Let’s start at the beginning. I grew up …

June 13, 2006 Hon. Tom Suozzi Nassau County Executive One West Street Mineola, New York 11501 Dear County Executive Suozzi, I am writing to you as a concerned resident of Nassau County and on behalf of the “desperate job seekers” who reside here. We just had our weekly breakfast “pep talk,” if you will, and …

You don’t have to be psychic to know something bad is about to happen. It’s a feeling that something is just…wrong. Like that science experiment just starting to grow in the vegetable bin, you can smell something is going on; you’re just not sure what. The day I learned of my own layoff, I was …

After being unemployed for two years, a feeling of anger, sadness and comfort stirs inside of me. There is comfort only to learn there are other people confronting the same stereotyping as I am. I am in my early 50’s and have been operating in the corporate world for over 20 years. I am a …