While my job search continues, I am keeping my options open. I have forsaken the conventional methods of accessing job sites to seek employment; too much competition. Instead I look for subtle clues that an organization may indeed be hiring. Things like flying flags at half-staff; a dead giveaway. (No pun intended; ok yes it was); calling your boss a troll on national television (only I am not a man and I do not have tiger blood flowing in my veins; duh-winning); or simply by posting an obscene tweet on the head office’s official account, a real no, no. An employee of Chrysler Group LLC's social media agency has been fired after it was discovered the person posted "I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the motor city and yet no one here knows how to f---ing drive." While this statement may be true, it’s probably something you might want to keep to yourself.
But I think I may have found my niche. Apparently, there’s money in pirating. A Somali pirate claims to have made $2.4 million in ransoms in 2010. How did he do it? Saeed Yare says it’s not easy being a pirate. Well, I think every year until I was 10 I was a pirate on Halloween and if I remember correctly all that entailed was an eye patch; a bandana; a striped shirt; an empty rum bottle and the ability to say, “arrgh, me matey.” But according to Yare, he made his millions by “investing in two operations, $1.2 million that led to the hijacking of the British-flagged Asian Glory, another $700,000 for Saudi tanker Al Nisr Al Saudi and $500,000 for Bulgarian vessel Panega.” Before becoming a pirate, Yare held a position as a salesperson of sorts in the lucrative trade of knat, a stimulant guaranteed to amass great fortune. Had Willy Loman peddled knat, Arthur Miller would have had to rethink titles. It was only when Yare found fisherman becoming wealthier than he as a drug dealer, that he decided “it’s a pirate’s life for me” and immediately switched careers.
Yare got me to thinking. I understand the price of potash is soaring. Where’s me eye patch?
1 comment:
You always manage to pick up on the lunacy of it all. It's always amazing what people actually say.Great pics too by the way.
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