Open letter to Rush Limbaugh
While I was driving twelve hours to a job interview I was listening to the radio and what do I hear, Rush Limbaugh talking about the current job market or his perspective on the current job market. Seems he thinks that most men would have a job if they did not receive welfare and where unable to eat “After a few days they will find something” food being the motivator. Now I can’t speak to what other men do I can tell you that this current job market is like nothing I have ever encountered.
So you understand my view point let me share a little bit of my back ground.
Creation Studios
I have always been a self-starting self-maid over achiever with a little bit of that attitude to back it up type, from my first business at 16 to buying my first home at 19. Being a musician I bought another home a year later to build what became an award winning recording studio. From the age of eighteen till twenty eight I worked two jobs on average including running my recording studio, making five albums of my own and creating a few other businesses on top of that.
It took a lower back operation to slow me down, but it took a second back blowout six months later to almost stop me 100%. Then it really became a drag taking three years fighting with L&I and the weight of the Boeing self-insured lawyers trying to tell me it was all in my head. Only after a Fusion in my lower back (L5S1) they began to believe me, but not really (I am still faking it in there minds). During the waiting game for my second major surgery Boeing did what they call “A medical lay off” (basically you’re fired, sorry we messed you up but, goodbye) did I also mention I need dual carpal tunnel surgeries.
I was never one to quit and not even a bad back was going to stop me, so just moved forward and using my investments from real estate and other business ventures and started a Coffee company called Black Dot Coffee.
So far so good in most people eyes until, February 9th2009 when after having a former business partner in another line of coffee I created began to see it was becoming one of the fastest growing coffee lines in the US and thought because of his star power, his star being the hit show “Deadliest Catch” his name being “Phil Harris” decided to help my wife divorce me and leave me without anything. One day I had three homes and ten cars and a business doing over $500,000 to nothing.. (I know many details are left out, due to the complexities but I assure you it reads like soap opera and Phil died one year later to the day and time I lost all I had.
So back to Mr. Rush, well if you read my resume listed below you might think wow, no problem getting work. Well yes big problem. Most employers don’t believe it even though one can google my name and see it is all true, some employers won’t call me thinking I am Over qualified, others see my once 810 credit score to a -810 and no hire, or no collage, or most of my business have been my own so who do they call?
I have Five Knights as references but that’s too hard to believe and to back it up my once body that could run circle around 99% of people will no longer allow me jobs that require heavy lifting, long driving, standing bending and so on.. File for SS, denied three times..
Having things like this happen in your 40’s sucks, your too old but not old enough you get stuck, my plans where to never have five back surgeries but to work hard, invest well and do the things I love to do and never once did I think that anything was ever just given, but in this current market being a guy in his 40’s is a tuff market and the one thing I can tell you I never got that you did Mr. Limbaugh was a break..
Most everything I have done was on my own no breaks here but the breaks in my BACK..
So I ask you, what to do Mr all-knowing And by the way I have never gotten unemployment or welfare in my now 47 year life tell me how I am lazy..
(note, I have applied to over a thousand jobs, still get up at 5:30-6am every morning and look)
My real goal is to continue my musical ministry and continue to share the word of God to the world. Visit theartistone.com
Professional Profile
Glenn Coggeshell has been featured in Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines for leading international market strategies. Has lectured many college courses on international business and trade. He has the ability to inspire people and gain their trust quickly. He is a sparse debater and can move many to positive outcomes
Key Qualifications
Start up *Strong negotiation skills * International business and trading * Global sales positioning * First to market and develop industry trends * Creating strategic alliances Leading and developing teams * Creating effective business plans * Strong work ethic * Streamlining, lean manufacturing * Product development * Pricing concepts and projections
Employment
The Artist ONE/Together as ONE ministries
Music Management
The Jimi Hendrix Family Foundation
GJC Group (A Consulting firm of 7 Knights)
Robin Hood Foundation
Coggeshell Consulting (1990-present)
CREATION STUDIOS and management
January 1989 – Present (25 years)
Veronica Vitale Italian POP star and one of the highest IQ in the world at over 200.
Boyd Grafmyre promoter of the Seattle Pop and acts such as Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Elton John,
The Charles Darwin Conservation Association (CEO)
OBERON (Partner/International product placement specialist)
Northwest Blends /Black Dot Coffee (CEO)
Professional Affiliations
Eureka Springs School board 2014
Jimi Hendrix Foundation Board Member
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