Everything&Nothing: A Collection of Thoughts

I was scrolling through my Google News feed when I came across this article about why some employers don't put the pay for the job in the advert. Now before I get too far into this, I want to talk about my experience and why anyone should listen to me about the subject.  Some of might know, but for those who don't, my prior career was working as a recruiter. I've worked with Conduent (formerly Xerox), PeopleReady Skilled Trades, Digital Intelligence Systems, and a few other place. My job was solely to work with clients and hiring managers to fulfill their hiring needs. I would create the job postings, review the applicants, conduct interviews, and make my recommendations to hiring managers.  Early on in my career, I learned how adding pay to a job ad can help it or hurt it. I was working on virtually the same job, but the clients were different. The job was working at a call center. One client was paying $14/hr. while the other was only paying $8/hr. Obviously, I had more c...

  Netflix's female version of Cranked released today, and I've got to say that it's marginally better than the other 24-hour to live action movies.  For anyone who is unfamiliar with this particular movie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays Kate, an assassin who contemplates her future as an assassin after a mission in Osaka takes a wrong turn.  Woody Harrelson play Varrick, or V, her handler. Varrick raised Kate to be a professional killer from a young age. After the mission in Osaka, Kate tells Varrick she wants to retire and have a normal life. Varrick essentially tells her that she'll tired of the boring life and be back in no time.  On what is supposed to be Kate's last mission, she manages to find herself poisoned. After the mission takes a turn for the worst, she wakes up to in the hospital with a terminal diagnosis and 24 hours to live, and thus begins her rampage to find justice.  I don't want to give too much away about the movie, but I will say that as fa...