SEMpdx » Scott Orth http://www.sempdx.org Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:40:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Living Under a Bridge – Final Wrap Up http://www.sempdx.org/blog/business/living-under-a-bridge-final-wrap-up/ http://www.sempdx.org/blog/business/living-under-a-bridge-final-wrap-up/#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:00:02 +0000 Scott Orth http://www.sempdx.org/?p=773 I am happy to say that living under the bridge is behind us now. The Social Media Job Hunt experiment lasted only five days before receiving an exciting employment offer, and numerous freelance offers to carry me through the interim. I will miss all my bridge-dwelling neighbors, and will think fondly of our times chasing down rodents… er…dinner, with the kids. Moving was quick. We simply flipped our cardboard house over, put our few belongings in it, and carried it back to the house. Read more [...]

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