Author: redpenguinweb

My name is Adriana Sotomayor, but here in the States it is Adriana Vitacco. I came to Long Island on vacation 3 years ago and met my husband Bobby Vitacco. We got married within months and we’re really happy, although the process of becoming a resident was very long and tedious. I had to be …

Ok, so I’m 66 years old and wondering where my life went and how I ended up in a dead end job. Looking back on my career, I peaked early and it’s been downhill ever since. But, I am more fortunate than those who can’t find jobs, so there is that “make lemonade out of …

It was 2008 and I was about to be interviewed for a superintendent position with a major construction company in New York City. It was about the same time the United States was plunged into the subprime mortgage crisis. Due to the crisis, the real estate development company I was presently working for did not …

At the time that I had my “Moment of Career Clarity,” I had already accumulated 10 years of fundraising experience and had accomplished a great many valuable things that had positively changed people’s lives as well as the future of several charities. By design, I did not remain at any one job for an extended …

I had great work making lots of money and going along smoothly, then the bottom fell out from under me and I couldn’t find work either. I was working at the mall for $6 an hour and working at anything I could find.  I finally found a job at an old restaurant that I worked …

As the saying goes, “Man plans. God laughs.” After a lifetime spent denying I even had a mental illness, to myself as well as others, my life took a turn when I took on a job, became overwhelmed, and decided to “exit stage left.”  In the wake of that negative event, I ended up finding …

During my 35 years of practicing law, I had a general law practice which evolved into a more specialized successful personal injury, medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, and defective medical device litigation law practice. I had many highly satisfying “Perry Mason” moments in court when I was able to able to get the witness/wrongdoer to …

“Carnie Girl” I call myself…and proudly. Working as a ticket taker in a local Carnival I’m no place I ever thought I’d be. Hell, on a good day I wouldn’t even go to a  local carnival! After all, when I was away at finishing school, I was up nights thinking where I was going to …

I started another sales job at 35. In the beginning, it was going well. It was in that six-month mark that I became disgusted with what I was doing, working for a company that I didn’t believe in. I put on a good deal of weight sitting at my desk the majority of the day. …

When you become unemployed in mid-life, you reassess your skills, think about your future and for some, do quirky things. That’s ME! The quirky animal lover in me came out when one club member mentioned his problem with his very scary 100-pound dog. Holly barks at everyone, she scares people but she is really a …