Girl on the Brink: Surviving Desperate Times with Desperate Measures

Girl on the Brink has attracted the attention of PR agencies. She’s been receiving a bunch of press releases lately about how you can earn money and put your finances in order. I find most of them too good to be true. I don’t write about them for that very reason, and I don’t think reading a book by supposed experts will help you regain your financial footing when you don’t have any money to begin with.

But a press release that landed in my inbox last week caught my eye. Maybe this one’s too good to be true, but think of the possibilities if experts extended the technology to help you find a job.

A new iPhone app I’m talking about is called “Blow on Your iPhone,” or more pointedly, “Blow Your Love.”

Lipstick, girls. I need some of the red kind—and an iPhone. According to the press release, if I blow on my iPhone I’ll be able to find someone nearby who matches my profile for age, city and other preferences.

The application locates that special someone by sending thousands of little hearts to the screens of other iPhone users and searches for a person who at that exact moment just blew on his (or her) iPhone. His hi-definition picture would then appear on my iPhone screen, and we could begin sending each other real-time messages. I do, I do want one.

I think technologists should revise the application so that if I blew on my iPhone, it would locate a nearby employer who is looking for someone like me. Instead of sending out little hearts, it would send out thousands of tiny briefcases. In the preferences, you’d be able to pick the briefcase brand, including color, and select your top cities and enter your skills.

Hiring managers across the nations would sit at their desks and blow on their iPhones. If there’s a connection, my head shot would appear on a hiring manager’s screen. But I’d serve up a new twist—instant video interviewing. Once we got the basics out of the way, such as where are you located and have you laid-off anyone recently, we’d move on to the next interview plain. How about a big French kiss.