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”
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”
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!”
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:
If I don’t work on this project, I could alternatively work on one of the following other projects:
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.
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”
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”
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!
Aman and Krista met while working at Coalition and are now engaged to be married! Congratulations to both of you! 🙂
The downside to working on the weekends is that sometimes you have less motivation during the week. I generally find that I try to ride the waves of motivation. I do need to eliminate some of the distractions like my Xbox though… I spend too many evenings playing that.