old job

Unexpected Sheriff’s race in Williamson County a possible turnout boon for Blackburn

Happy Friday to all. We are picking up Patrick and Amy this morning from the airport which should make for a fun weekend. I want to give a late happy b-day to Amy Jean … I won’t so how old, but she’s more than welcome to comment on that. We are looking forward to some good food, golf, and touring around.

My last post looked at a bootstrap culture as I have been writing about it for my new textbook on bootstrapping. There are four steps that can be taken to help build and maintain a bootstrap culture as the business grows. The first of these steps is recruiting for a Bootstrap Culture:

I must preface this story/conversation with the fact that it has been a long weekend and I had failed to bathe for the majority of it. Thank goodness you can’t smell through blogs right? So earlier in the afternoon I had managed to locate my “lost” razor and jumped into the shower. Later in the afternoon as I was stepping away from the major overhaul of my blog, the following conversation took place:

me: You want a sandwich or something?

"Mom, I'm really sorry I threw up on your shoes."

"That's OK sweetheart. It'll wash right off."

Thank goodness it was raining this morning and I decided to wear the $60 black leather slingbacks and not the $170 black suede ankle-straps.

I started a new job last week, a promotion at the company I've been with and loved for 10 years. Already I've had to be out of town two days for my "old job" and this, the second Monday morning of the new position, I get a call at 10:00: S

When The Husband first started working at The Job He Loves®, he described it to me.   My first thought was “Gosh, what you do sounds similar (in part) to what I did at my last office job.”   He then started coming home with anecodotes about his co-workers on an infrequent basis.  They were harmless stories about the people he worked with–the jobs they do and the jokes they’d tell.

The squicky part is that not only did his job sound similar to my o

One year ago today, I was living my life. Loving my new job. Thrilled to be out of my old job and feeling as though I was back to being myself, perhaps an even better version of myself then I had been.

Matt Pulle reports on the continuing hemorrhaging of staff on the Tennessean’s political beat:

On Wednesday, after the paper hired a new staffer who’d been freelancing for The New York Times, Wissner asked an editor if she could return to her old job as an enterpris

The Tennessee Titans have entered the Era of the Revolving Door.

Until Vince Young’s contract runs out, expect a never ending procession of Offensive Gurus (great band name) to pack a bag and head for the Third Coast*.

Say goodbye to Norm “Lendale off tackle” Chow. Say hello again, to Mike “Eddie off tackle” Heimerdinger. Les Steckel was not available for comment as of press time.