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It’s not easy for me to ask other people for help.  Even last month at that infamous kickball game, I was extremely reluctant to as my teammate if I could have a quick drink from her water bottle.  But my survival instinct overrode my shyness and I asked for the mandatory hydration to which she kindly agreed.  I was slightly embarrassed to ask someone for help but I would have been slightly unconscious had I not.

And now again I’m forced to ask my friends for help because my survival demands it.  I feel ashamed for asking because I am guilty of pretending that I’m more successful than I truly am.  Yes, my job of writing about movies and interviewing celebrities is awesome.  There’s no denying it and I feel that if I didn’t have a self-deprecating sense of humor, I would be even more insufferable than I already am as I deserve a littering fine for all the names I drop.  But the truth is that my job doesn’t pay me a whole lot.  Perhaps in another year or so, I’ll find a way to make enough money to do it full time at which point your jealousy will be wholly warranted.  But for now, film criticism won’t even pay my rent.  I’m on the verge of being homeless and if I were smarter and not so damn proud (damn this pride of mine!), I would have asked for help sooner.

But I’m asking for help now because I don’t want to lose everything I worked so hard to gain over the past seven months.  It pains me to ask for help or really to ask for anything from my friends.  But I feel like I finally became employable over the past year and a half and if I’m unemployed, then it’s a paradox and those can destroy the universe.  If you don’t want to do it for me, do it for the universe.

So the question I need you to ask yourself is this: do I or anyone I know need someone with the following areas of expertise:

- Writing: any tone, any style, done fast, done well.

- Web consulting: this was part of the work I was doing with Georgia Public Broadcasting; it hit a bit of a hiccup when the project changed hands and the software was overhauled to a new content management system.  However, my skill at coming up with the best possible site as pertaining to the project still holds as does my ability to explain that redesign to the non-web savvy crowd.

- Pop culture: this isn’t just trivia fodder but rather understanding current entertainment trends and how to explain and utilize these trends for purposes such as marketing, content development, and public relations.

I know we all have our own lives to keep afloat and trying to help someone else get a job is a pretty big to-do.   Believe me, if my life wasn’t at stake, I wouldn’t ask.  I like spending time with my you guys, not asking you for life-changing favors.  The most I ever want to ask of you is to play drums in Rock Band since being Jewish, I have no rythym.  If you ask someone for a favor then one day, and that day may never come, but one day, you’ll call upon me to do a service for you and then I’ll have to pretty up Sonny Corleone’s corpse.

So if you or anyone you know may want to take a look at my resume or sit down and talk with me to bask in my highly employable glow, please let me know.  I’ll owe you many.

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