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I want to be YOUR life coach

After posting my resume, I started to wonder about all the areas I could go into at this stage in my life.

I mean, I have the following bad ass skills:

1. I can code in C# and VB.NET and I can complain about doing it in Java

2. In an office environment, I can personally handle all necessary procrastination, freeing the other employees to actually work (see – by hiring me to be lazy, you actually get a better deal – it’s sort of a complicated idea that I call “Successitivity Through Empoweridlement” that will be treated in several chapters of my upcoming business self-help book for confused managers, where it will be explained in more detail sometime in the near future)

These are probably my two strongest points, and they led me to the obvious conclusion that I should be a LIFE COACH.

I keep hearing about these people, and I don’t know what in the hell they do, but I know that I’d be the best ever at it, and I want to be yours.

First off, before you get all excited, my fees are rather steep, and I don’t take credit cards because I don’t know how and that would require learning something new, and that’s not part of my modus operandi. At the age of twenty-eight, I feel that I’ve learned absolutely everything I will ever need to know, and whenever I find a gap in my knowledge where, for example, you might get the upper-hand in an argument, I’ll just make things up and yell at you until you believe that you were mistaken not only to have contradicted me initially, but simply to have even been born in the first place. Tears are usually involved, and they sure as hell aren’t mine.

Anyway, back to this life coach stuff.

Since I don’t know what they do, I guess I’m kind of free to come up with whatever I want to define their activities, and I’ve decided that a life coach:

1. Tells you what to do

2. Tells you what to think about yourself

3. Tries to destroy your self-esteem so that you feel even worse about yourself and recognize, more than ever, the need for a life coach

It’s sort of like a cross between psychotherapy and Scientology, but it’s neither – it’s life coaching, and you don’t know anything about it, and I do, ‘cause I’m an expert, and, like I said before, I’m going to be yours (if you’re rich, that is – I’m not life coaching poor people – I wish they’d just go away or stop being poor or whatever, ‘cause all their tales of hunger and hardship really spoil my sunny days).

Here’s some demos of how I think I could work out as your life-coach.


For the Man In Need of Love

For the Man In Need of Professional Satisfaction

For the Woman In Need of Truth


I know, I know. It's a gift, my ability to find inspiration where others would falter and come up empty.

But that’s why I need to be a life coach.

Your life coach.

Let me know what you want me to start.

Published Monday, April 17, 2006 12:09 AM by Rory

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Comments

 

Melanie said:

With that kind of advice, I'd hire you immediately... unfortunately, I'm one of those damn poor people. :(

And for the record, my ass does not look fat in any jeans! Now go and make *me* a martini.
April 17, 2006 3:03 AM
 

Helen said:

Rory,
I wonder if you could coach me in C programming? I have 3 books about it, did a module in it, did not quite succeed, but maybe your charming ways would actually do the trick for me.
Helen
April 17, 2006 9:49 AM
 

Charles said:

First thing you need to do is abandon c for C#.
April 17, 2006 2:26 PM
 

Joooleeeahhh said:

...have to say, it's cheap humour and I LIKE it Rory. Nice artwork, too.
April 17, 2006 4:02 PM
 

Rory said:

Helen -

"I wonder if you could coach me in C programming?"

I was going to respond, but Charles beat me to it.

Just learn C#.

Direct memory manipulation is *so* last century.

It's also hard, which is why I don't do it anymore. The last time I really dabbled in C, it wasn't even for C itself, but because I liked the inline assembler, which was easier to use than either MASM or TASM.

But now I'm getting a little obscure.

Anyway, whatever happens, C is hard, and as your life coach, I would strongly recommend that you go to the beach, have an ice-cream cone, stick your toes in the sand, look at the sky, and contemplate the existence of leprechauns and whether or not they use their powers for good or evil (I have my own opinions on this, but as a life coach, it's my job to help *you* find your own answers).

Forget this C crap.
April 17, 2006 6:52 PM
 

Confused said:

Dear Life Coach Rory,

I'd just been to the company's harrassment workshop this morning. I'm not sure what was covered, I didn't really pay attention. But it's only because the woman givng the presentation was extremely fetching.

I'd like to get your advice on how I should approach the situation:

A) Should I take an indirect route by talking about her Easter weekend sun burn, and maybe jokingly stroke her lobster-red arms, or

B) Take the direct approach and do the rap "I Like Big Butt, And I Cannot Lie"

Please advice
April 17, 2006 8:33 PM
 

hey baby, you smell pritty - HA said:

Confused,
Have you checked she isn't wearing a diaper? To do this slap her on the ass as you walk past.

April 17, 2006 10:50 PM
 

Bil Simser said:

Dear Potential Life Coach [insert name here]:

My journey in life has been a complicated one and thus, the need for a Life Coach becomes that much more intense.

As with all decision however, I will need to verify a few things before I accept you into my collective...err, life coachiness:

1. Have you, or any member of your family been diagnosed or are currently being treated for any form of mental dysfunction. This includes but is not limited to multiple-personality, split-personality, multiple-personality, diptheria, anxiety, mental disorders, mental illness, anxiety attacks, general anxiety, and mulitple-personality.

2. Are you currently or have ever been wanted by any law enforcement agency of the state, both federal, local, and international. If so, what crime do you think you committed (if known) and where did it happen? If you answer Belgium or Switzerland to this, we'll just ignore this little oversight.

3. Have you, in the past or during a past-life, illegally stolen any office supplies from your employer. This includes those cool little pens with oil and water bubbles in them, but excludes anything over the retail cost of $5,000 because if you're that gutsy I want you as a life coach.

If you answered yes, no, or all of the above to any question then you probably don't qualify as my life coach and I'll have to search elsewhere. Otherwise please send me $300 in small, unmarked bills so I can begin the assimilation, err... paperwork.

If you answered fish to the above questions, please email me Tom Cruises phone number so I can hit him up for a refresher course on that Scientology thing as I missed the episode of South Park.
April 18, 2006 1:57 AM
 

George said:

Why did you draw me looking like a girl? I came to you in confidence about those jeans. Payback is a mushroom where and when you least expect it.
April 18, 2006 4:11 PM
 

Raj Chaudhuri said:

Dear Life Coach Rory

I have been attempting, for years, to perfect the same skill as you mention in #2; i.e., to become the official procrastinator for all around me. But somehow, I never get around to actually becoming that good. Can you help me?

Sorry for asking this three days after the post. I meant to ask on the day the post came up, but kept putting it off.
April 19, 2006 5:55 AM
 

jack said:

Dear Life coach
I would like to learn C programming.And with the skills like yours why not. U have an ability to find inspiration. So why not try this skills on me.
When would u like to start?
April 20, 2006 6:34 AM
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