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Freelancers, put on your pants!

picture-191Are you wearing any pants right now? If you’re freelance, unemployed or unemployed and you’ve fallen into the no-pants trap, today’s newly declared holiday is for you. Over at ASSME (the American Society of Shitcanned Media Elite), blogger Sheila has declared it First Annual Freelancers Put on Your Pants Day in a post that sounds like the beginning of a hot phone-sex convo: Read the rest of this entry »

From networking to notworking: duo makes art from old business cards

discarded_horizontal They call it discarded, we say “temporarily liberated from office slavery.” But there’s a new project that aims to put a face on the 9.4 percent of the population that’s currently out of work.

The Brooklyn-based, just-launched Discarded site offers folks a chance to tell their recession stories by filling out a short form detailing their journey from full-time employment to paycation. The site asks visitors to upload or mail in their now-defunct business cards; a visual archive of the cards will be the finished product. Read the rest of this entry »

Freelancers, put on your pants!

picture-191Are you wearing any pants right now? If you’re freelance, unemployed or unemployed and you’ve fallen into the no-pants trap, today’s newly declared holiday is for you. Over at ASSME (the American Society of Shitcanned Media Elite), blogger Sheila has declared it First Annual Freelancers Put on Your Pants Day in a post that sounds like the beginning of a hot phone-sex convo: Read the rest of this entry »