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noreimerreason a reading, writing, and photo blog. oh and animals. and their rights. there ain't never been any reimer reason, and i'm not gonna start now MJ: At the beginning of the project, you hired several career coaches to help you design your resume and guide you in your search. What are your overall thoughts about job coaching? BE: A lot of what was going on with my coaches was a complete and utter waste of time. First, they all want to do a personality test. My first thought was, “I already told you I’m a P.R. person, that’s what I do. So what if I have the personality of an embalmer?” In 1993, 89 of the Fortune top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don’t want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense. People take the test in the morning and then take it again in the afternoon and have a new personality. There’s a wonderful recent book, Cult of Personality by Annie Murphy Paul, who just goes through how it’s ridiculous. Bait and Switch: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich \| Mother Jones Posted 3 days ago Copyright (Taken with Instagram at Kozmik Zoo) Posted 4 days ago Absorption (Taken with Instagram at Kozmik Zoo) Posted 4 days ago This place (Taken with instagram) Posted 4 days ago True love (Taken with instagram) Posted 5 days ago Mac lounge (Taken with instagram) Posted 6 days ago Trampoline Hall (Taken with Instagram at Performance Works Theatre) Posted 6 days ago Memory! (Taken with Instagram at Performance Works Theatre) Posted 1 week ago Synaptic plasticity (Taken with Instagram at Performance Works Theatre) Posted 1 week ago 1. John Anderson’s beard 2. Sanskrit (Taken with Instagram at Performance Works Theatre) Posted 1 week ago Next »

Showing Tag: "cold" (Show all posts) feed a cold, starve justin bieber? Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, May 29, 2010, In : Recipe That's what you're supposed to do, right? My sweetie cooked me up this concoction to help with a sore throat - head cold thing that reared it's nasty bacterial head when I got home from my trip. Pickles, salsa and beer all made by J. I had to eat the terminally garlicky pickle, take a sip of beer, eat a garlic clove, then repeat. Then I downed the level 10 salsa. I'm not sure if it helped push the cold along faster or not, but it sure was entertaining. Continue reading ... « Back to posts		Blog Archive May 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010 September 2010 October 2010 November 2010 December 2010 January 2011 February 2011 March 2011 April 2011 September 2011 October 2011 Subscribe to this blog This blog by Nikki Reimer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.