Michael Venske

Dear Head Honchos: Are you looking for a way to bring unity and increased performance to a group of your employees that may be fearful about their employment due to America’s tough economic state?  Do you want more options for “corporate entertainment” than just an afternoon of skits in the boardroom making fun of Bob [...]

This morning I had an impromptu telephone interview with a recruiter for a staffing agency. The woman on the other end of the line was named Celeste. And as much as I love talking about prior employment and “selling myself,” I was having a difficult time focusing my attention on this potential employer’s questions. All [...]

Today at 11:30AM I have a job interview. Interviews are as important for the potential employee as they are for potential employer. With this in mind, I’m gonna conduct my own interview. There are a few choice questions I plan on asking. However, tonight The Girl offered a question that made me smile because of [...]

Smell and taste are enormously powerful tools to help jog your memory… For instance, just now I poured myself two-fingers of Jim and was thrust three years into the past. (Traveling through time…) We’ve arrived in the summer of 2005! During that summer, I spent Monday through Friday working at the Wells Fargo campus at [...]

It’s officially my last day in Corporate America. I’ve got eight more hours of work left and then I’m done. What a week…! Between memorizing sides for my on-camera class, improvising at the Monday Night Comedy Show, memorizing monologues for my monologue class, improvising at Six Ring Circus, shooting “Fruit Salad,” memorizing scripts for film [...]