Paul Oberjuerge, formerly a sports columnist for a California newspaper, offers 10 suggestions for people who still have their jobs, assuming they want to keep them:
- Embrace the web.
- Get a meat-and-potatoes job.
- Suck up.
- Stop whining.
- Produce.
- Stop spending money.
- Make sure your editor hired or promoted you.
- Keep your head down.
- Lose weight, tone up, get a haircut, consider cosmetic surgery.
- Achieve excellence.
Click the link to check out his comments on each one. Pretty much spot-on.