The Zod Method for Postgraduate Survival

These short stories by PJ Thiessen are about the misadventures of a school graduate trying to make it in the business world with the 'help' of a naive extra-terrestrial.

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Marketing a Small Business

The idea to start marketing a small business of my own perhaps began when summer loomed before me along with my dreadful need to find work. The idea of working for someone else and constantly risking being laid-off at the next financial crisis, as my mother continually suffered, followed by filling out forms at the unemployment office, jumping through all the ridiculous hoops they require which never really help you land a job, so you have to jump just to get that almighty, insufficiently small, unemployment paycheck while you try to squeeze in time to follow better paths to finding work, just turned my stomach and threw me into depression.
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by PJ Thiessen
First Published: June 19, 2011
Last Modified: July 10, 2011

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