JOB HUNTING
18/01/2013 prepared by Natasha M
Seinfeld - George Costanza ponders about potential jobs
I thought we should always look at the situation from a comical point of view...
...Professional life George's professional life is unstable. He is unable to remain in any job for any great length of time before making an embarrassing blunder and getting fired. Very often, the blunder is lying and trying to cover it up, only to have it all fall apart.
Over the course of the series, he works for a real estate transaction services firm (Rick Bahr Properties), a rest stop supply company (Sanalac), Elaine's company (Pendant Publishing), the New York Yankees (his longest running job), a playground-equipment company (Play Now), an industrial smoothing company (Kruger Industrial Smoothing), and other places. He is fired from his job at Pendant Publishing for having sex with the cleaning woman on his desk in "The Red Dot" (he professes he has always been attracted to cleaning women).
His original job when the series starts is as a real estate agent; he ends up quitting and getting re-hired, but fired immediately afterward for drugging his boss. He always wanted to be an architect; he first desires to be one in "The Stake Out", and he claims in "The Race" that he had designed "the new addition to the Guggenheim". In "The Van Buren Boys", he denies his young protégé a scholarship from the Susan Ross Foundation when the young man decides he no longer wants to be an architect and wants to become a city planner instead. In "The Marine Biologist", Jerry tells a woman whom George wanted to impress that George is a marine biologist. The plan backfires when George is called upon to save a beached whale with a Titleist golf ball in its blowhole. He saves the whale, but the woman tells him off when he confesses that he is not, in fact, a marine biologist: "She told me to go to hell, and I took the bus home."
During the fourth season of the series, George gains experience as a sitcom writer as he helps Jerry to write the pilot for the fictitious show Jerry. While pitching the concept of a "show about nothing" to NBC executives, George dates executive Susan until The Virgin, when she is fired. Following the first and last episode ("The Pilot"), executive Russell's obsession with Elaine has cost George and Jerry a shot at getting a TV series.
According to the Curb Your Enthusiasm Seinfeld Reunion, George has become a multi-millionaire by inventing an iPhone application called "iToilet," which would point the user in the direction of the nearest accessible toilet, wherever they were in the world. He trusted his entire fortune to Bernie Madoff, and after his divorce, lost his half of the money. However, his ex-wife Amanda withdrew her half of the money before the scandal, having been creeped out by a quilted jacket with a popped collar that she spotted Madoff wearing one day, and after she offers to reconcile, he gets it back, but their new prenup agreement means that George will have to be a good husband in order to keep it.
List of George's jobs:
Real-estate agent
Manuscript reader
Screenwriter
Hand model
Sales rep for rest stop supply company
impersonating a marine biologist and architect
Assistant to the traveling secretary for New York Yankees
Sales rep for playground-equipment company (Play Now)
Representative for Kruger Industrial Smoothing
Computer Salesman
Car Mover
Importer/Exporter (Vandelay Industries)
I thought we should always look at the situation from a comical point of view...
...Professional life George's professional life is unstable. He is unable to remain in any job for any great length of time before making an embarrassing blunder and getting fired. Very often, the blunder is lying and trying to cover it up, only to have it all fall apart.
Over the course of the series, he works for a real estate transaction services firm (Rick Bahr Properties), a rest stop supply company (Sanalac), Elaine's company (Pendant Publishing), the New York Yankees (his longest running job), a playground-equipment company (Play Now), an industrial smoothing company (Kruger Industrial Smoothing), and other places. He is fired from his job at Pendant Publishing for having sex with the cleaning woman on his desk in "The Red Dot" (he professes he has always been attracted to cleaning women).
His original job when the series starts is as a real estate agent; he ends up quitting and getting re-hired, but fired immediately afterward for drugging his boss. He always wanted to be an architect; he first desires to be one in "The Stake Out", and he claims in "The Race" that he had designed "the new addition to the Guggenheim". In "The Van Buren Boys", he denies his young protégé a scholarship from the Susan Ross Foundation when the young man decides he no longer wants to be an architect and wants to become a city planner instead. In "The Marine Biologist", Jerry tells a woman whom George wanted to impress that George is a marine biologist. The plan backfires when George is called upon to save a beached whale with a Titleist golf ball in its blowhole. He saves the whale, but the woman tells him off when he confesses that he is not, in fact, a marine biologist: "She told me to go to hell, and I took the bus home."
During the fourth season of the series, George gains experience as a sitcom writer as he helps Jerry to write the pilot for the fictitious show Jerry. While pitching the concept of a "show about nothing" to NBC executives, George dates executive Susan until The Virgin, when she is fired. Following the first and last episode ("The Pilot"), executive Russell's obsession with Elaine has cost George and Jerry a shot at getting a TV series.
According to the Curb Your Enthusiasm Seinfeld Reunion, George has become a multi-millionaire by inventing an iPhone application called "iToilet," which would point the user in the direction of the nearest accessible toilet, wherever they were in the world. He trusted his entire fortune to Bernie Madoff, and after his divorce, lost his half of the money. However, his ex-wife Amanda withdrew her half of the money before the scandal, having been creeped out by a quilted jacket with a popped collar that she spotted Madoff wearing one day, and after she offers to reconcile, he gets it back, but their new prenup agreement means that George will have to be a good husband in order to keep it.
List of George's jobs:
Real-estate agent
Manuscript reader
Screenwriter
Hand model
Sales rep for rest stop supply company
impersonating a marine biologist and architect
Assistant to the traveling secretary for New York Yankees
Sales rep for playground-equipment company (Play Now)
Representative for Kruger Industrial Smoothing
Computer Salesman
Car Mover
Importer/Exporter (Vandelay Industries)
“I like sports…I could be the general manager of a baseball team…I could be an announcer.” In the scene below, George chats with Jerry about what he could do next in his career.
Career Lessons from George Costanza
Two pieces of advice come from the video above – consider what you love to do and evaluate your skills and experience to determine how you can follow your dreams. There is another one:
Appreciate your colleagues’ generosity but don’t abuse it: In one episode, George lies about being handicapped and in response, his company and co-workers are willing to go the distance to create a work environment that makes it easier for him to get around. Bottom line is don’t lie to your co-workers or to potential employers – it will only come back to haunt you. For any Seinfeld fans out there, you know that George’s approach to most anything rarely works out the way he may have intended. Just remember that your colleagues appreciate honesty and if do screw up, own it and apologize.
Career Lessons from George Costanza
Two pieces of advice come from the video above – consider what you love to do and evaluate your skills and experience to determine how you can follow your dreams. There is another one:
Appreciate your colleagues’ generosity but don’t abuse it: In one episode, George lies about being handicapped and in response, his company and co-workers are willing to go the distance to create a work environment that makes it easier for him to get around. Bottom line is don’t lie to your co-workers or to potential employers – it will only come back to haunt you. For any Seinfeld fans out there, you know that George’s approach to most anything rarely works out the way he may have intended. Just remember that your colleagues appreciate honesty and if do screw up, own it and apologize.
Approach a resignation with grace and preparation: George faces denial over his resignation and heads back into the office as if nothing happened. George reminds us that once you let the cat out the bag and inform your employer that you plan to leave, think about your next steps and consider your last few days as a time to shine as you could be marked with a low-commitment or short-timer stigma. Don’t let bad decisions or hurt feelings impact your career and reputation, and please don’t go back to seek revenge.
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...more on George?
Woman: You looking for a job? George: Me, why? Woman: Well, you’re reading the classifieds. George: Oh, no no no. I was just looking for stock-pages. Here it is. Looking for the quotes. Gotta check to quotes. Love a good quote. Oh, IBM up a quarter. Women: You didn’t look like someone who needed a job. George: Me? No, no, I don’t, I don’t. Doing very well, very well, yep. Women: So, you’re in ‘the market’? George: Yeah I’m, eh, in ‘the market’. Women: Which market? George: Which market, the, eh, big one, the big market, the big board. Bull market, bear market, you name the market, I’m there. |
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