Unemployed: A Memoir - Reginald L. Goodwin

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ISBN: 0-9762974-5-0
124 pages
5.5" x 8.5"
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I’ve had the disturbing epiphany of reading about blogging and their current impact on our society and world. One fellow got hired because of the software content of his tech geek blog; the other got fired because of the creative distain they published about their companies in their blogs.

Human Resource departments are making searching the Internet for content of blogs a common practice in their hiring decisions. Blogging is being added into the appendices of companies approved modes of “official communication.” I’ve been asked often by my wife, “did your blogging cost you the interview/job?”

So, I bravely did a Google search on my formal name, Reginald L. Goodwin. Here’s some of what “shook out”:

VISIT SEARCH LINK

These are web sites attached to my university. I’m an Engineering Physics graduate of North Carolina A & T State University. It lists me as one of the AFROTC graduates of Detachment 605, “the Screaming Blackbirds.” Hey, I didn’t pick the name! I then did a search on “Reggie Goodwin.” I first receive mention on some alumni association functions:

www.ncatwesternregion.com/chapters.html

I’m mentioned in several articles on hosting poetry venues (as I do at Mitchie’s Fine Art and Frame Gallery every 2nd Saturday from 3 – 5 PM): also innocuous.

This blog began with what you will soon read in the introduction. Before it existed, the conditions that caused my predicament existed.

 

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