Re: Between Two Ferns
 

Is this some new "urban" form of rickroll? Hahahaha the joke's on you, I'm not white.

Re: Between Two Ferns
 

Oops. My bad. (Although you should enjoy the Mic Geronimo throwback.) Here's the actual link:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ed3...ell?rel=player

TM

Re: query
 

It's not very subtle.

Remember, though, it's awfully high in cholesterol.

Re: query
 

paging Lactation Lover

Re: Going to the dogs
 

i was noticing you can kill a board like no other. like the adult board you've killed for 4 years with a post, not to mention all the regional boards you've killed. no offense but you might want to not post unless you're pretty sure someone else is just about to post something after you. that way the likely ill-will you're attracting now will disappear.

So
 

Just got a message from a former client saying that the local firm they use for the bulk of their work is looking for someone with my specialty. Having had a few pints, I'm not returning it now. But do I want to work for a firm? A regional one? And what business can I realistically offer them other than the former client for whom I can do what I used to go at much lower rates? Doesn't the fact that I ask that question suggest that this form shouldn't really want me, as I don't really have the necessary bravado to be a real generator of business?

In truth, it's probably almost worth it for the firm just to keep some of that clients work, but I'm still back to do I want to work at s firm (that isn't my own) and how do I deal with their nobody current specialists to whom I would likely nominally report? And where did I put that ambition again?

Finally, why am I think about this when there were cute lasses to hit on? Oh. Right.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

So Conan O'Brien sold NBC a pilot for an hourlong courtroom drama series about a Hispanic SCOTUS justice (played by Jimmy Smits) who quits his Article III lifetime appointment (at $213,900/yr) in order to hang up a shingle and start his own law firm.

To which all I can say is: Well played, CoCo.

Re: So
 

Stop over analyzing. take off the table whether the new firm really wants you.

Just analyze if you are unemployed, if you can hold out not taking this gig

if you can, wait for what you really want even if you have no idea yet.

if you can't throw your hat in the ring and continue looking.

AT best throw your hat in the ring and continue looking that sounds muy reasonable even if employed

I marinated on this and yanno. just submit cv and let the fates decide. when you overanalyze shit you box yourself out of well. everything. boxes and jobs :)

Re: Between Two Ferns
 

I thought that was the next episode, as in "just chill until the." There's no nostalgia like mid-1990s hip-hop nostalgia.

Re: So
 

Spend 2 minutes writing back to say thank you for the message, that you would be interested, and that you're in Europe right now but would be happy to talk with them when you get back. Why say no before you've heard what they have to say?

Re: So
 

Tomorrow.

My advice is if you're unemployed take whatever job you can to be ununemployed. Then when a better one comes, take it. Et cetera.

Re: So
 

2 things- wait 3-

1) get new firm to promise how it will credit you for the work you bring in from this client. no bullshit, clear promise on how you will benefit-
2) get new firm to promise no GP will be in your hair above you in serving the client- this means if you need to leave, the client is more clearly yours.
3)ask for the big P-ship

as to "bravado" when I got my first real client I was a numbskull. I wasn't smooth. but there is a specie of rainmaker that does it by being good and proving it. over time i've learned to look at marketing like dating- you don't fuck 100% of the women you don't try to be with and same thing with clients- obviously it's not 100% because this company called you and somewhere at a bar someone is sitting next to Paigs - but the weird thing is that once I had my first real account I had the "Bravado" in large part because it was clear that I didn't NEED the extra work, it would be nice, but I didn't need it.

get there, solidify this work, and you might enjoy being in a firm a lot more. working your own accounts is way better than working the man's.

Re: So
 

Re: So
 

Dissent. Stay unemployed as long as you can. Parlay Ireland to Iceland, New Zealand and Switzerland. Learn from your mistakes with the lassies there to fail less miserably with the lassies elsewhere.

Re: So
 

My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.