DESPERATE FOR A JOB?
Be careful--sometimes a bad job is worse than no job:

"With unemployment still high, job seekers who have been discouraged by a lack of work might be inclined to take the first opportunity they're offered. That will help pay the bills, but it could cause other problems: A new study suggests that some jobs are so demoralizing they're actually worse for mental health than not working at all.
The findings add a new wrinkle to the large body of research showing that being out of work is associated with a greater risk of mental health problems. In the study, which followed more than 7,000 Australians over a seven-year period, unemployed people generally reported feeling calmer, happier, less depressed, and less anxious after finding work, but only if their new jobs were rewarding and manageable.
"Moving from unemployment to a poor-quality job offered no mental health benefit, and in fact was more detrimental to mental health than remaining unemployed," says the lead author of the study, Peter Butterworth, Ph.D., a senior research fellow at the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University, in Canberra."

The key:  try to find what you really want--and work towards it!

In other news...
Our own Vicki McCarrell, chair of the Moebius Syndrome Board of Directors, has joined the board of the National Organization for Rare Disorders.  Congrats, Vicki!

I'm a big fan of college basketball and the NCAA Tournament.  Here are my picks for the first four games, to be played tonight and Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio:

I like VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH to knock off USC.

Look for Arkansas-Little Rock to edge out UNC-Asheville.

Texas-San Antonio will bump off Alabama State.

And Clemson will defeat UAB.

I'll let you know my upset picks for Thursday and Friday in a day or two.

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." -Henry Ford