Category Archives: Personal

Thinking

Posted on October 31, 2013 by marshe

Earlier this week, I got a call out of the blue from a prospective employer, sort of a basic phone screen and sounding out of interest. This watos one of the “saw your resume online” calls, and was for relatively … Continue reading →

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Hiatus

Posted on October 28, 2013 by marshe

I’m helping migrate and tweak a web site, so there’s a break in the job hunting and in the related posts. On another note, today is my fifth anniversary with FedEx. It had already surpassed over the summer my longest … Continue reading →

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Feeling Like a Dinosaur

Posted on July 29, 2013 by marshe

Once upon a time, I mailed out resumes to prospective employers. They might be advertising, or they might simply be likely possibilities I had identified. Notably I did the latter using a slightly outdated copy of the Directory of Massachusetts … Continue reading →

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Location, Location, Location

Posted on July 14, 2013 by marshe

As I look for a full time job, presumably of the proverbial “real job” variety, the topic of location arose. Once upon a time, I commuted from Plympton to North Billerica, Massachusetts, almost 70 miles each way. I survived. I’d … Continue reading →

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Thomas F. Fish

Posted on May 26, 2012 by marshe

On May 15, 2012, my friend Tom Fish died of natural causes in Greenfield, Massachusetts. If no obituary is published elsewhere, let this serve as one. Tom was born June 26, 1961 in Levittown, NY, to Prescott Hayes Fish, late … Continue reading →

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Landing Page or Blog Up Front?

Posted on January 17, 2011 by marshe

I set this place up on the idea of having a static landing page, probably filled with info about me and about what the place is, so in the end that would predominate. I’ve started to wonder if I have … Continue reading →

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Flight

Posted on January 10, 2011 by marshe

A long-time foible of mine is to flee entirely a career path or field of study that has, to my mind, gone awry, caused me mortification or become painful to contemplate or gained negative associations. My youth centered much on … Continue reading →

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Here’s the pitch…

Posted on January 7, 2011 by marshe

The kind of pitch I’d love to make here cumulatively, but summed up in one post. Except I don’t have the caveat of a great “day job,” have no special reason to keep the part time job (which, after all, … Continue reading →

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