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The past few months have found me browsing the various job boards on Monster, CareerBuilder and the classifieds in the LA Times and Register - in search of the “right” opportunity. A few weeks ago, I came across one that caught my attention. Since I wasn’t interested myself, I didn’t save the ad; but am attempting to recall some of the key requirements of the position:

Position: Corporate Management Professional

Experience: Preferred; optional with proper sponsorship

Location: Southern California (subject to change)



Global Fortune 500 corporation seeking an experienced management professional with direct responsibility and authority for executing and completing high-stress projects on time and within budget. The manager will oversee a group of 50 experienced employees, each with over 20 years of on-the-job training, who are in no position to make any decisions without specific direction from the manager. The right candidate is expected to remain focused on the company’s bottom line and shareholder revenue targets, and will avoid introducing any changes or improvements that require behavioral changes on the part of the corporate management and executive management team.



Desired Skills:

• Disregard for individual employee growth and development.
• Caustic attitude and closed-door management style.
• Owner mentality, vs coach or trainer.
• Command and control style of communication. Graduate of GTT (Gestapo Tactics Tech)
• Certified Black Belt in DAAQ-JDI (Don’t Ask Any Questions - Just Do It) management program.
• Specialist in one-way, outgoing communication.
• Uncaring and impersonal; never considered a “people person” by others.
• Knowledge and experience with “team-building” highly undesireable.
• Ability to apply ethics on a sliding scale, based on personal factors.

All candidates will undergo a 120-day probationary period during which time any observed non-compliant behavior will be grounds for immediate eradication of the position on any of the company organization charts, which releases the company from any financial or moral obligation to compensate the candidate for their time and effort.

Like I said, I had no interest in pursuing this. Would you?

Not-e-Worthy - the birth of a blog with great potential.

After more than 5 years on the web, I believe its time to give weidemannia a major design overhaul. I realize that very few people actually ever get to this page - and are even reading what I am posting, but as a courtesy to those few of you out there, I thought I would let you know what’s going on.

Over the next few weeks, you will find parts of the site that either disappear completely, or are restructured. This is driven by my need to intentionally force change and improvement; the ultimate goal being to create something that actually HAS some meaning.

Design parameters: Clean. Whitespace. No frames (this will be a major change for me). Improved content.

Anyway… the construction crews will be arriving any time. Later, dudes.

gladwell dot com / The Tipping Point, and New Yorker articles by Malcolm Gladwell - Thanks to Mike Oswalt for sending me the link. Some great writing.

You would think that I would have posted this with some fanfare as soon as I was offered the job. But the past week has been pretty hectic.

On October 4, I will be starting a new career as a Loan Officer with a local mortgage and lending firm. After 3 weeks of on-the-job training, I will begin building my pipeline and moving on my way toward helping people achieve the American dream - or possibly just help them to continue holding on to their American dream during tough times. Thanks to my chance meeting with Jack (mentioned earlier), I now have a new direction to build my personal abilities. It seems like an excellent way for me to begin interfacing with the public, while potentially being able to bring in enough income to pay the bills. A future “George Bailey”.

In parallel, the Flash consulting work has picked up, and I am happily building animations and movies to interpret some abstract thoughts and concepts into something that people can understand. Extremely nice to be able to work closely with people that have a passion for what they do. Looking forward to a long and profitable relationship working with Parnassus Consulting. This will be my “evening” job - the one that allows me to pursue my passion.

So, this is my last week of “vacation”.

I’ve notified the EU folks that this is my last week teaching the networking and interview preparation training sessions. But oddly enough, most of my co-instructors have found jobs and will also be leaving EU. Maybe by teaching we ended up becoming the best students of the material and parlayed that into employment.

We Got Fired! : . . . And It’s the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us by Harvey Mackay

This new book came to me via a link from the Achievement newsletter that I receive from AdvantEdge. Seemed appropriate to post a link here so I did.

While the music from our past is indelibly etched into our souls, you also have to give credit to the people - the disk jockeys - that played a significant part in introducing them to each of us. For me, the personalities of Ace Young, Paraquat Kelly, Sam Riddle and Jim Ladd created the aura that put a frame of reference to the music.

I think you might find this website a great help in bringing back some of these names from the dead - or even from the live. I’m sure they would appreciate getting an email from you telling you how much they meant to you. Do it.

ACTION: 440: Satisfaction - Radio People, Radio History, Radio Stations

Those Were the Days, Today in History

Adam Curry’s Weblog

List of Disallowed Personalized Plates - Courtesy of the Smoking Gun. Warning: You may be offended. Enjoy!