Max Beatty

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    Overlooked Everyday Conveniences

    I’ve been traveling the past two weeks for work and noticed some small conveniences that airlines, hotels, and rental car companies have provided and a lot of opportunities they have to go the extra mile for their customers without a lot of effort.

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    What to Do When You’ve Inadvertently Involved Yourself in a Mail Fraud Scheme

    A few months ago, I was answering dozens of Craigslist ads a day to try and find any work I could including paid surveys and research settings. In the fury of it all, I accidentally involved myself in a mail fraud scheme by responding to a spam message I mistook as a real response to one of my inquiries to a paid survey. Everything looked very convincing and authentic to the point I almost unknowingly committed a crime by trying to cash counterfeit postal money orders. Luckily, I caught on in time, called my local FBI field office, and filed a complaint to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

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    Technorati

    Do people still submit their blogs to Technorati?

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    I could have probably hidden this post so it only shows up in the RSS feed, but I’m lazy :)

    New Year’s Resolutions for 2010

    The new year is here and everything is, well, new! New job, new city, new friends, new social networks, new toys. With all of this new, I best try to use it to improve myself and maybe even help others. Here are my New Year’s resolutions for 2010:

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    How I Spent 6 Months Being Unemployed After College

    This is more of a journal entry than a blog post, but I hope other new college grads and those about to be can take something from my experience. To summarize – I worked, I travelled, I waited, I made it. Read the rest of this entry »

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