JDBoston

Suggestions: 1. CONSOLIDATE as much as you can. i.e. have one section for "Consultant" or whatever which includes bullet points about all of the web sites you worked on. Include 1-3 relevant details - project dates and a highlight or two - for each one but no more. If employers are curious about the nitty gritty they can ask you in an interview. 2. REMOVE salary, references, and the objective. You should address your objective in a cover letter to each job you're applying to. 3. Work experience should go by dates, not by field. First you worked at the grocery, then you simultaneously worked as a "Consultant" etc. and at the care dealer. So: Automotive Technician, 2000-present (?) or 2001 Web Design Consultant, 1999-present Automotive Technician, 1998-2000 Meat Cutter, 1997-1998 Grocery, 1995-1997 Work should definitely come first, not education. Usually education only comes first if you're currently a college student and have only internships/summer jobs and high school in the work department. Overall, I would arrange the resume to emphasize that you're a quick learner and self-starter (obviously since you were self-employed) with a broad range of experience but a desire now to dive more deeply into X field that you are applying to a job in. You can condense the education entries a lot too. For instance, I think the certifications and courses taken w/o degrees can go in a Personal section or something like that. Happy to take a crack at it if you want to email me (for some reason I never get PM's) - email is joedeal76@yahoo.com. Good luck - Joe

Why doesn't everyone just pee in the shower when they wake up? I've been doing that my whole life. You can pee every which way and it doesn't matter at all. Of course, I guess you have to be the clean kind of person who takes showers every morning. Joe

Saw that in a movie once... I once pissed on my roommate in college, perhaps thinking he & his bed were the bathroom. Then a few weeks later I pissed in our poor hedgehog's cage, again unintentionally. But that was all long, long ago. Joe

Maverick?

Muhahahahaha! Better luck next time! Joe

The Adultress by The Pretenders. Joe

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A couple more suggestions: 1) You may be able to password-protect all of your TV channels depending on your cable provider. I can do this with AT&T Digital Cable. That way, he can't watch any TV until he pays you the back bills plus his share 1 month in advance and you give him the password. 2) You can definitely password-protect your computer/email. 3) If he never buys food, just padlock the fridge. Apply this principle to everything else you can apply it to, and see if that affects his mindset about taking his share of the bills. It's pretty childish, but he's the one forcing you into it and it'll make for some fun conversations. Joe

How about like Animal House where they lead the horse in there and then shoot it? Joe

Yeah, I'm wicked cool too. I'm actually from upstate NY originally but I think some of the slang is the same in both places.... Thanks for noticing, Joe

Well all that stuff changes it. Now I understand why you're pissed. Sounds to me like the whole family is a bunch of douchebags. You should read the lease very closely to see what you can do. Are both your names on it, or just yours? Basically, there's no way to force him to pay anything, bills or rent, unless you have a written agreement from him to pay it. All the landlord/bill collectors care about is that they receive the correct amount from the person whose name and contact information they have.... unfortunately.... Good luck though! I'm sure you'll be glad when you're finally rid of all 3 of these assholes. Joe

I would think the original agreement was made because it was the *fair thing to do* given the different-sized rooms, and not just because he was your roommate and you were doing him a favor. How about if you were paying an extra $200 a month instead of $20? Then some new guy moves in, and you tell him, well, the guy before you was paying $300 and I was paying $700, but I think I'll charge you $500 and knock my own rent down to the same thing, because hey, I don't know you.... BTW, enjoy your smaller room.... It seems to me like the only relevant question here is, is the FAIR thing for one person to pay more rent than the other. If so, I gotta admit I don't understand why you're pissed about them wanting to keep the rent the same. But everyone sees things differently.... Joe

Am I reading this correctly: - You agree to pay him $20 more than 1/2 the rent because your room is bigger. - That works fine. - He moves out, and his brother is now living in his room, and his father is paying the rent. - Rent is paid on time and is the same amount your ex-roommate had been paying you before. - You are pissed because they want to keep the same rent split in place? Joe

Depends on the girl - could be low fat, skim, chocolate, etc. Joe

No, that's like saying you didn't smoke weed because you didn't inhale. Joe

Besides, if you've bowled then you've gotten to feel the dirtiest place on earth, the finger-holes of a bowling ball... now THAT'S extreme.... yum.... Joe

You wanna talk Boston? How about the way people make left handed turns onto into traffic around here: edge out slowly until you're blocking the oncoming traffic in the near lane completely, then wait for someone in the far lane to stop and let you turn left into it. This usually takes about 5 minutes. That and the pedestrians, don't even get me started on the pedestrians around here. Or the bicyclists. Joe

Aaaaaaarghhhhhh. Makes me wish my car had guns and oil slicks and stuff like in Spy Hunter. But alas, all I have is my horn. Joe

Second that, it's a really cool place. Good luck! Joe

Let me rephrase: aggressive drivers are more likely to cause spectacular accidents. But I think timid drivers are way more likely to cause minor accidents because they stop/slow down when no one expects them to, causing confusion, chain reactions, and pile-up fender-benders. Joe

Second that. It's disrespectful. I'd rather someone was an hour late than ten minutes. An hour means they probably had a good reason. Ten minutes means they're just too lazy to care that you were sitting there waiting for them. It ain't hard to be on time... Other pet peeves: smoking except in bars, stupidity, and especially timid drivers. Timid drivers are WAY more dangerous than aggressive drivers. Like people who actually stop at Yield signs on highway on-ramps. Fuck. Joe

Speedy, Very glad to hear your brother is going to be OK. That's very fortunate. Apparently that dumbass bus driver was just speeding along on the ice. The accident probably could have been a lot worse than it was. Never take anything for granted... Joe

Well, plus the fact that some bonehead scriptwriter put the actual word "Crusade" in one of Bush's early speeches about the anti-terrorism campaign.... yep, that was smart. Joe

Let's not shoot the messenger. There is some truth to that statement. And the more countries we allow to remain unstable, the more places terrorism can flourish. We don't need to walk around whipping ourselves, but it's narrow-minded and dangerous to think that the US can do no wrong and everyone else is just bitching about us cause they're jealous. Joe

And at least a little bit of ambient light, otherwise your pictures will come out looking like shit. Joe