Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

We were busy all throughout the week. Rebecca hasn't slept much each night because she has stressed about finding work. [By the end of the week, I found stopping job hunting tasks/thoughts an hour or two before bed helps tons in being able to sleep. Perhaps there's good reason for the typical work schedule of the salaried employee. -bec] Rebecca has gone to many meetings with Lee Hect Harrison and reviewed her resume. Most of the meetings are, oddly enough, supposed to help people find their way around the company's website for job listings. I am still trying to put my faith in this company and what they say, but if they are catering to the lowest common denominator and Rebecca has only gotten more frustrated and worried about job hunting since participating in their seminars, I am beginning to doubt. I doubt the economy will rebound as well as people think. I doubt people have any idea how bad it really is.  read more »

One of the parting gifts from my last company was some meetings with a career transition consultant at Lee Hecht Harrison. I started with the orientation meeting last week. Wow did I learn a lot. It was both enlightening and discouraging at the same time.  read more »

The show was up Monday, but attendance was light. I had three or four professors bring their entire classes by my pre-thesis project for quick demonstrations and participation, but a bug was rampant through the code and the performance was not ideal. All morning long I was calling Rebecca desperately pleading for solutions, however none came until after we shut down and could debug the issue. (It was funny that the bug seemed to disappear when Rebecca showed up after lunch. She was the good luck charm.) New media work is always broken, they tell me. Zero1 festival kind of proved that -- the percent of functioning pieces was well below 50%.  read more »