Andrei Neculau

Since my foreign friends tend to ask me the same questions about out little life here in Sweden, I thought I would devote an entry to your FAQs.

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*updated 2008-06-05: new clips - București & Oradea 2008 & Constanța 2007

Dan Puric (Famous Why?)

Book: Cine suntem by Dan Puric, Bucharest, May 2008

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A friend of mine, with a neat way of writing and setting a perspective on things, tried to get a job at.. what many would say.. a respected Romanian daily.

The path from point A - found a job, trying to get it - to point B - got accepted/rejected - seems quite natural and, all in all, no biggie.

Yet.. after some 2 penny communication, 1 penny testing.. obviously you can get just a.. 0 penny rejection, and the path A-to-B screwed you up big time.

Excerpt¹:

Se întâmplă deseori în viața de student să cauți cu elan jurnalistic un job. La început e bun orice. Nu tu pretenții la libertatea de exprimare, nu tu plată pentru orele suplimentare, nu tu primă de Paște. Ca orice muritor admis în cursa pentru un job la Cotidianul punct ro, mă vedeam deja mâncând sarmale cu Dinescu la petrecerea de Crăciun.

Crede și nu cerceta Casa Scânteii (Ana Sîrghi)