LA Rage

I feel like a lot of people in Los Angeles are angry a lot of the time. One of my friends pointed out it is because they have never been able to ascend very high on Maslow’s hierarchy chart:

His thought is many people in Los Angeles end up not feeling very secure because they live from paycheck to paycheck and have a hard time saving money.… read more “LA Rage”

How I Sold My Car

I purchased my 2008 GMC Acadia six and a half years ago for $14,800, which I thought was quite a good deal at the time. The average price for the same year and model on Craigslist owner to owner was $20k, but I was able to talk them down from $18k with some shrewd negotiating.

Two months ago, I purchased a nice new 2017 Audi to replace it, so I needed to get rid of the Acadia.… read more “How I Sold My Car”

Frustrating Client

I have been dealing with a very frustrating client. When the client began working with me a few months ago, their site was a disaster and their revenue was half of what it was the year prior. My team and I worked very hard to rebuild their site, and get their traffic and revenue back to where it was the year prior and actually grew it quite a bit.… read more “Frustrating Client”

Halloween at Coalition!

We had a Halloween contest this year with a prize for best overall outfit and best Coalition related outfits! Some really amazing outfits came in, such as two real life Coalition illustrations, my blender drink, a black hat SEO. We had some great other outfits like ghosts, mummies, and many other monsters! I came as a hacker, but that was kind of a weak sauce outfit lol.… read more “Halloween at Coalition!”

Rebuild My Recruiting Site for Multiple Companies?

I have spent a lot of time preparing my company’s recruiting site to be rebuilt so multiple companies can make use of it. I am having second thoughts though now that I am almost ready to start actually converting it over. I think the work will be larger than I had first thought:

  • Set up candidate social network
  • Set up billing
  • Set up company & employees tables
  • Set up marketing site pages
  • Change every one of over a hundred something routes to carry data and pages for multiple companies
  • Switch domains
  • Setup dynamic subdomains
  • Build testing for everything above
  • And more

If I don’t work on this project, I could alternatively work on one of the following other projects:

  1. Put more attention and effort myself into Scoretask (Coalition’s operating system)
  2. Work with Laurel on getting a house, although whether to do LA or WA, I don’t know.
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Dinner with Brian and Kelsey

Laurel made a great dinner last night for Brian, my buddy from college, and Kelsey, her buddy from college! It was a delicious meat and potatoes and carrots concoction with a side of bread and cheese. We then played Qwirkle and made a lot of jokes about the name.

Prison Dream

I had a strange dream last night that I was a reporter who went undercover into a prison.

When I entered the prison, I was expecting to look down on the prisoners and be in full control of my circumstances – I could bail out if I needed to. Instead I found that an extraordinarily powerful gang controlled the prisons and that they could exert their strength outside of prison just as easily as inside.… read more “Prison Dream”

Recruiter Candidate’s Angry Response To Rejection Email

I understand candidates are upset when they get rejected from a job they interviewed for. But check out this guy’s response when he failed to get the Recruiter job he applied for:

My team’s fairly standard rejection email “Making a decision on who to select was extraordinarily difficult and we believe another individual is a slightly better fit for us at this time.… read more “Recruiter Candidate’s Angry Response To Rejection Email”

Recruiting Site Upgrades

I have been working hard on Coalition’s recruiting site and making upgrades to it. Yesterday we just launched our new platform on Laravel 5.5 and PHP7! Still trying to work out all the bugs, but looking good so far!