Poached from the Vodpod page of Oddjob Nation. Michael Spafferty video resume – Spafferty’s experience in Project Management, Product Management, Management Projects, and Management Management makes him the perfect hire for your enterprise. “Bearish” – truly a song for the times, with apologies to The Association Page 3′s Recession Song – sung by some guys [...]

Odd Job Nation: Go for the job listings, stay for the web series.

If you’re looking for employment, we’re not sure Odd Job Nation’s the right place. For a site that bills itself as “the ultimate resource for today’s growing army of part-time opportunists,” there aren’t very many jobs listed—aside from re-posted ads from the “gigs” section on various regional Craigslists.

But the real action is on the “Odd Jobs” web series page. There you’ll find three webisodes, featuring Nate, “a neurotic, recently laid-off investment banker” and Joe, “his unemployed, morally questionable, hustler roommate.”

Does today’s negative unemployment report offer evidence that this year’s giant stimulus bill isn’t working? And if so, is that because it wasn’t big enough or because more government spending isn’t the antidote to what ails us? A sampling of economists’ online opinions shows most sticking to their ideological guns, whatever the make. Robert Reich, [...]

Aye caramba, oy vey, and ah fudge. The September unemployment report? Not so good. The jobless rate hit a 26-year high of 9.8% and the economy shed another 263,000 jobs, worse than expected. If one of those positions was yours, you could probably give a rat’s rear end about what the economists are saying. Hunched [...]

One month ago we wondered: Would the stock market suffer a September swoon? If you answered yes to that question and acted on it, then you missed out on a nearly 4% gain in the S&P 500, a whopping 6% on the Nasdaq, and 2% in the Dow, which had its best quarter since 1998. [...]