Is fear an emoticon?

When I went to new interviews,after losing my job in 2008, I was sitting in a waiting room wondering if I had remembered to put in my resume everything the Internet had told me to use so as not to make me look outdated. 
This brings me to the question: Does our resume, do we, for that matter, have an expiration date?  According to the Internet, we must. 
I also went over, in my head, the stuff I was posting on Facebook.  Did I post how much I hated my last boss?  Oh, shit, I probably did.  I was waiting to interview at a nursing home, and wishing I had been smart enough to use a pen name,so this administrator didn't associate me to that damned book.  But, I figured, oh well, too late, jig's up and yes I did cut up that last nursing home. Hey, I had to have an example from someplace, even  if all the nursing homes are the same. I was wishing I could use an emoticon, like fear, on my resume.  OK, maybe not a good idea.
So I didn't get that job, so maybe it's true,nursing homes hold grudges, after all, if they are a corporation they have been given people status, so I suppose it's possible for them to hold a grudge.  Can one punch a corporation in the nose then?   Or maybe they need a fear emoticon too, showing fear of being fodder for my next book. 
No matter, I will write on, even if my career in nursing homes is over.  Who cares?  Not me.  Maybe I can go back to waiting tables, or even asking "You want fries with that burger, Sir?'   Naw, not even in the running as far as job prospects go!

Something I have learned

I want readers to know that I do editing on manuscripts for books. Am I a 'professional editor?' Well, I guess that depends on Your definition of professional. Do I write my own books? Do I edit my own books? Do I self-publish? A resounding YES to all of the questions. I do okay in the selling department and I'm learning about promoting and advertising my books.

Are my books good? Yes they are and if I'm not on the 'best seller' list right now it is because of lack of knowledge about advertising, but I absolutely am learning that part too. So if people have not discovered my books,it is simply because I cannot afford a huge ad in Times Square. That's fine, I WILL get there.

If you self-publish because you have been turned down by publishing companies, does that mean your stuff is no good? THAT would be a resounding NO! Why? You have to understand that editors and those publishers are taking an educated guess. There is NO magic bullet for success. Have Enough money and You Too can sell anything. Marketers will tell you this too. Publishers go with celebrities because celebrities are already known, so a Big chance publishers are Not taking by banking on a celebrity. The rest of us are unknown, at least for now because we don't have Big Advertising buckaroos! So what? It just means people like you and I have to be more creative with less bucks.

I have read blogs written by people who had popular subjects, got book deals and one blogger became an editor. Do I think making ONE book deal makes anyone a professional editor? Nope!

So hang in there, keep writing and publishing,come up with creative ways to market and contact me,if you like, about my editing fees.

Thanks for reading and if by chance, you want to offer me tips on shoestring marketing ideas, well, I'm Always open to suggestions.