Top Entry Level Employers

Employer Name Projected 2008
Entry Level Hires
Enterprise Rent-A-Car 8500
AmeriCorps 6000
Walgreen Company 5924
Internal Revenue Service 5000
Progressive Insurance 4208
Teach For America 3700
Deloitte & Touche USA LLP 3500
Target 3358
Peace Corps 3276
Ernst & Young 3180
PricewaterhouseCoopers 3117
KPMG 3100
U.S. Department of Agriculture 3000
Federal Bureau of Investigation 2981
Lockheed Martin 2501
Avis Budget Group 2500
Bank of America 2500
Hertz 2500
U.S. Customs and Border Protection 2250
Boeing 2200
Fidelity Investments 2200

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Seeking Independence

TAMPA — If this were a story airing on Ira Glass’ quirky public radio and cable series This American Life, it might begin like this: “Michael Phillips may be the most unlikely rebel you’ll ever meet. Not for his taste in science fiction TV — Christopher Eccleston’s version of Dr. Who remains his favorite — or for the music he loves, which includes Seattle indie rockers Death Cab for Cutie. Not even for the purple nail polish that sets off his thumb — the only body part besides his face that he can control .

“It’s that Mike, a 27-year-old with a muscle disease that has eliminated his ability to move his limbs, wants a bit of independence from the mother who has cared for him his entire life.

“And neither of them has quite figured out how this is going to work.”

But this is not one of Glass’ precocious, insightful, slightly off-kilter stories. It’s a story about what can happen when a storyteller with a keen eye steps into the world of someone who needs to re-examine his life, and doesn’t even know it yet.

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Run WifeGeeding Run

I’m proud of my wife for many reasons, but most recently I’m proud of how she trained and completed her first half marathon.

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What did I do the whole time when she was running?

I walked over to an Omni hotel and ate breakfast.

But I made it back in time to greet her at the finish line.

Here’s an interesting observation . . .

I noticed there were two pregnant racers.  I’m pretty ignorant when it comes to everything pregnancy related, so I had no idea how far along in their pregnancy, but off hand I would think all that running for 13.1 miles would be bad for the unborn child.  However they both had some sort of support strap that kinda looked like this:

There was one of them in retrospect I wish I would have taken a photo of since her belly wasn’t covered (other than the support strap) and her belly button had a ring and tattoo around it.

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Mixed Feelings

I’m a Dallas Cowboys fan.

Chris Cooley is a tight end for the Washington Redskins who managers his own blog.

He recently linked to my website.  It was just a link to an image on my website, but knowing an actual Redskin did this humorously bothers me for some reason.

Link (The link in #9)

At least it wasn’t anyone from the Eagles. 😉

 

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