I dont cry. But lately, I think "how the hell did this happen to me?" My body is always on the verge of just numb and eyes just start to feel watery blurry.
I convince myself there are more people worse off than I am. Things could be worse for me ... just look at the people on the streets.
Over the weekend, I had coffee with an attorney. He was telling me of some of his friends who were high powered attorneys and unemployed. A few of them have families and their homes are in foreclosure. Those are the people that I really feel for. When I hear those stories, I feel even more paralyzed. One of the challenges for me personally is that I hear these issues everyday. I'm not getting immune from these stories, but these stories are staying with me all day...all of them... cumulatively.
One of the only times I dont feel helpless is at my PinkSlipMixers.com events. For those few hours, they just seem to forget about being unemployed and the events are their "job". I think the interaction with others gives them some purpose and their substitute for work. I know I'm only just helping 30 or 40 people a night, but it makes me forget I have problems.
I'm trying to be as positive as possible. I really need to concentrate on myself, but when I do that the community project just seems to stall. And when it stalls, I get flack from what "monday morning mixer quarterbacks". I know I should find more recruiters. I know I should find more quality job seekers to network with. I know I should find sponsors to fund this project. I know I shouldnt air out "how I feel because I'm the leader of the unemployed and if I show negativity then its bad". I fucking know already.
I know I need to concentrate on me. I know more people are worse off. I know many people dont have anyone to turn to. At least I have friends and family to turn to.
Even though I know... how can I help me when others are worse off than me.
I dont know how I am going to continue to do this. I dont know if I want to find a job. I dont know how to pay for gas. I dont know when I'll have a life again. I just dont know any more.
Lets get this recession done with.
ps: I dont fucking want to do MLM opportunities... I see YOUR fucking vision so dont throw that in my face. I'm a fan of network marketing but I dont have $500 to join and neither do my other unemployed friends.
pss... help me find recruiters to attend my pinkslipmixers.com events. i'm tired of hearing flack from lame job seekers... http://ping.fm/015x3
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
I'm going to be on a Yacht today & will live stream it. http://ping.fm/Jfhka I get on the boat at 12:30 pm today. Watch me. Chat with me.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
We have a new video resume company taping our job seekers. http://ping.fm/Eb3P8“Video-Resume-Taping”-Venue-Planned-for-Executive-Job-Seeker-“Pink-Slip-Mixer”
PinkSlipMixers to add video resume service to events
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Laurie Pehar Borsh, 800.915.2151x706, lauriepeharborsh@lpbpr.com
“Video Resume Taping” Venue Planned for Executive Job Seeker “Pink Slip Mixer”
LOS ANGELES, CA – June 22, 2009–Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 (www.Pink Slip Mixers 2.0), a grass-roots organization that supports unemployed professionals by offering unique "pink slip party" networking events and RezBuzz (www.rezbuzz.com), a brand new social networking site that brings together members via the power of video resumes, are coming together on Monday, June 22, 2009 to offer a great job search mixer event at the Palomar Hotel (10740 Wilshire Blvd.) in the heart of Los Angeles. Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 guests will get the chance to win a full video resume production and have a video shot right at the event as well as learn to create a profile on RezBuzz.com and shoot a short their own video resume via anyone of the computers and webcams that will be at the event.
Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 is a unique "pink slip party" job networking event. Guests "Pay it Forward" by exchanging job search tips, forwarding job postings, “Tweeting” about things they talk about and hear in the crowd (Twitter Feeds are broadcasted live during the event) and just simply encouraging other job seekers through the recession. Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 events are currently in California and in Florida and will be expanding to at least 10 metropolitan cities in the United States. For more information, go to: www.pinkslipmixers.com.
The next Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 event featuring RezBuzz- Video Resumes will take place on
Monday June 22, 2009 from 6-8 p.m.
at the
Hotel Palomar Los Angeles - Westwood
10740 Wilshire Boulevard (at Selby Avenue)
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tel: 310.475.8711
RezBuzz offers hiring professionals and employers a way to search for candidates and for candidates to search for employers with the distinctive feature of connecting through a Professional Video Resume (or “PVR”) or a Corporate Profile Video. It essentially combines some of the most popular networking communities on the World-Wide-Web. We like to think of it as a “Linked In meets YouTube meets Monster.com meets Facebook meets Match.com” kind of networking environment.
As the Social Media Revolution continues to change the way in which we all connect, socialize, meet and network online, the resume--one of the last remnants of the “paper world”—has finally gone digital. Los Angeles-based Corp Shorts Video Productions (www.Corp Shorts.com) is changing the landscape of how video resumes are being produced, utilized and promoted with the launch of REZBUZZ (www.rezbuzz.com). RezBuzz is a video resume and branding service paired with a social networking platform that is looking to span the globe bringing together job seekers and businesses looking for new employees.
RezBuzz and Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 are now coming together help stimulate the local job market with a unique live and on-line networking event. Together, RezBuzz and Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 are looking to continue to support of the LA community by paying it forward and by doing so, the hope is that the community at large will continue to support Pink Slip Mixer 2.0 venues in the years to come. This is an effort to provide a place for job seekers and hiring companies to come together beyond the Web and interact with one another on a face-to-face level. This kind of interaction can and will only to help people find more leads or at the very least, interact with others to provide job search support. According to Edwin Duterte, founder of Pink Slip Mixers 2.0, “This is the right thing to do to help revitalize our local job market. Online networking is fantastic, but nothing beats meeting up-close-and personal."
The Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 event is more than the typical pink slip party, a popular and growing trend around the country. Party guests also utilize social media tools including Twitter to “Tweet” their job search and career criteria along with the link to their Linked In profile in hopes of maximizing their job search exposure. Now with RezBuzz and a Video Resume Production venue in the mix, Edwin Duterte, is excited to see what more can be done to support job seekers to increase exposure to new hiring possibilities. “Video Branding is the most powerful form of online media offered today,” said Mark Sadovnick, RezBuzz CEO and of Sadovnick Partners Executive Search who was named one of the “Most Influential Headhunters in the World” by Business Week Magazine in November 2008. “Online video is the future of resume distribution and networking in the workforce, if produced responsibly and professionally.”
There will be a video screen that will project guest Twitter Feeds as well as the Video Resumes that will be shot by the RezBuzz production crew on site. As guests walk in the door they will also receive a raffle ticket to win a premium video resume production (a $2500 value) as well as be able to be taped on site at the event by RezBuzz or shoot a webcam video at one of the computers set up at the event. Guests will also be able to create an online profile on RezBuzz.com and have their video resume uploaded. Party goers will Tweet what other guests are looking for professionally and what recruiters attending want in a candidate. For instance, a job seeker talking to a hiring manager might Tweet (which is done via cell phone): “Recruiter Jon wearing the striped shirt is looking for a Product Manager.” Another Guest might Tweet: “Check out Sally Smith’s new Video Resume on her new RezBuzz.com Profile – here’s the link. Sally’s wearing a bright green shirt.” Guests in the mixer will see people being featured on the video screen and hopefully go on to connect "in person" at the party to discuss a possible opportunities or the knowledge of one.
"We want to have our professional guests interact with one another and more importantly, make it personal for them," says Duterte. There will also be various industry tables where our guests can congregate and mingle with professionals specific to their job focus in addition to the RezBuzz video venue where guests can opt to have a video resume taped right there at the event or sign up to have one produced on location at Corp Shorts Video Productions in West Hollywood or at their home or other location. There will also be a '”speed career circuit' in which experts from various stations, such as resume critique, interview skills, etc., will offer free job search tips.
One thing to note is that Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 events are not job fairs. They are volunteer supported community events in which every member wants to participate in to help one another find work. “It is very exciting to have everyone helping each other in such a positive way,” says Duterte.
For more information about the Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 "Pay It Forward" Job Networking Events, contact Edwin Duterte at (310) 766-4478 or Edwin@pinkslipmixer.com
For more information about RezBuzz-Video Resumes contact Catherine Gray or Mark Sadovnick at Corp Shorts, 323.654.4443, Catherine@CorpShorts.com or Mark@CorpShorts.com.
The next Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 event featuring RezBuzz will take place on
Monday June 22, 2009 from 6-8 p.m.
at the
Hotel Palomar Los Angeles - Westwood
10740 Wilshire Boulevard (at Selby Avenue)
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tel: 310.475.8711
Contact: Laurie Pehar Borsh, 800.915.2151x706, lauriepeharborsh@lpbpr.com
“Video Resume Taping” Venue Planned for Executive Job Seeker “Pink Slip Mixer”
LOS ANGELES, CA – June 22, 2009–Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 (www.Pink Slip Mixers 2.0), a grass-roots organization that supports unemployed professionals by offering unique "pink slip party" networking events and RezBuzz (www.rezbuzz.com), a brand new social networking site that brings together members via the power of video resumes, are coming together on Monday, June 22, 2009 to offer a great job search mixer event at the Palomar Hotel (10740 Wilshire Blvd.) in the heart of Los Angeles. Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 guests will get the chance to win a full video resume production and have a video shot right at the event as well as learn to create a profile on RezBuzz.com and shoot a short their own video resume via anyone of the computers and webcams that will be at the event.
Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 is a unique "pink slip party" job networking event. Guests "Pay it Forward" by exchanging job search tips, forwarding job postings, “Tweeting” about things they talk about and hear in the crowd (Twitter Feeds are broadcasted live during the event) and just simply encouraging other job seekers through the recession. Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 events are currently in California and in Florida and will be expanding to at least 10 metropolitan cities in the United States. For more information, go to: www.pinkslipmixers.com.
The next Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 event featuring RezBuzz- Video Resumes will take place on
Monday June 22, 2009 from 6-8 p.m.
at the
Hotel Palomar Los Angeles - Westwood
10740 Wilshire Boulevard (at Selby Avenue)
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tel: 310.475.8711
RezBuzz offers hiring professionals and employers a way to search for candidates and for candidates to search for employers with the distinctive feature of connecting through a Professional Video Resume (or “PVR”) or a Corporate Profile Video. It essentially combines some of the most popular networking communities on the World-Wide-Web. We like to think of it as a “Linked In meets YouTube meets Monster.com meets Facebook meets Match.com” kind of networking environment.
As the Social Media Revolution continues to change the way in which we all connect, socialize, meet and network online, the resume--one of the last remnants of the “paper world”—has finally gone digital. Los Angeles-based Corp Shorts Video Productions (www.Corp Shorts.com) is changing the landscape of how video resumes are being produced, utilized and promoted with the launch of REZBUZZ (www.rezbuzz.com). RezBuzz is a video resume and branding service paired with a social networking platform that is looking to span the globe bringing together job seekers and businesses looking for new employees.
RezBuzz and Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 are now coming together help stimulate the local job market with a unique live and on-line networking event. Together, RezBuzz and Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 are looking to continue to support of the LA community by paying it forward and by doing so, the hope is that the community at large will continue to support Pink Slip Mixer 2.0 venues in the years to come. This is an effort to provide a place for job seekers and hiring companies to come together beyond the Web and interact with one another on a face-to-face level. This kind of interaction can and will only to help people find more leads or at the very least, interact with others to provide job search support. According to Edwin Duterte, founder of Pink Slip Mixers 2.0, “This is the right thing to do to help revitalize our local job market. Online networking is fantastic, but nothing beats meeting up-close-and personal."
The Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 event is more than the typical pink slip party, a popular and growing trend around the country. Party guests also utilize social media tools including Twitter to “Tweet” their job search and career criteria along with the link to their Linked In profile in hopes of maximizing their job search exposure. Now with RezBuzz and a Video Resume Production venue in the mix, Edwin Duterte, is excited to see what more can be done to support job seekers to increase exposure to new hiring possibilities. “Video Branding is the most powerful form of online media offered today,” said Mark Sadovnick, RezBuzz CEO and of Sadovnick Partners Executive Search who was named one of the “Most Influential Headhunters in the World” by Business Week Magazine in November 2008. “Online video is the future of resume distribution and networking in the workforce, if produced responsibly and professionally.”
There will be a video screen that will project guest Twitter Feeds as well as the Video Resumes that will be shot by the RezBuzz production crew on site. As guests walk in the door they will also receive a raffle ticket to win a premium video resume production (a $2500 value) as well as be able to be taped on site at the event by RezBuzz or shoot a webcam video at one of the computers set up at the event. Guests will also be able to create an online profile on RezBuzz.com and have their video resume uploaded. Party goers will Tweet what other guests are looking for professionally and what recruiters attending want in a candidate. For instance, a job seeker talking to a hiring manager might Tweet (which is done via cell phone): “Recruiter Jon wearing the striped shirt is looking for a Product Manager.” Another Guest might Tweet: “Check out Sally Smith’s new Video Resume on her new RezBuzz.com Profile – here’s the link. Sally’s wearing a bright green shirt.” Guests in the mixer will see people being featured on the video screen and hopefully go on to connect "in person" at the party to discuss a possible opportunities or the knowledge of one.
"We want to have our professional guests interact with one another and more importantly, make it personal for them," says Duterte. There will also be various industry tables where our guests can congregate and mingle with professionals specific to their job focus in addition to the RezBuzz video venue where guests can opt to have a video resume taped right there at the event or sign up to have one produced on location at Corp Shorts Video Productions in West Hollywood or at their home or other location. There will also be a '”speed career circuit' in which experts from various stations, such as resume critique, interview skills, etc., will offer free job search tips.
One thing to note is that Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 events are not job fairs. They are volunteer supported community events in which every member wants to participate in to help one another find work. “It is very exciting to have everyone helping each other in such a positive way,” says Duterte.
For more information about the Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 "Pay It Forward" Job Networking Events, contact Edwin Duterte at (310) 766-4478 or Edwin@pinkslipmixer.com
For more information about RezBuzz-Video Resumes contact Catherine Gray or Mark Sadovnick at Corp Shorts, 323.654.4443, Catherine@CorpShorts.com or Mark@CorpShorts.com.
The next Pink Slip Mixers 2.0 event featuring RezBuzz will take place on
Monday June 22, 2009 from 6-8 p.m.
at the
Hotel Palomar Los Angeles - Westwood
10740 Wilshire Boulevard (at Selby Avenue)
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tel: 310.475.8711
Call for Volunteerism! Need Organizers for PinkSlipMixers.com Events
This is a big call for volunteerism to help out our unemployed community and get each other back on our feet. I am looking for organizers for our regular PinkSlipMixers.com job networking mixers. If a few of you in each city can handle one event per month that would be great. This is a very rewarding feeling.
I need organizers for a few reasons. First off, my savings are depleted and can no longer afford gas, food and other travel costs. Second, I am hoping to organize events across the country and need to devote more time to find organizers who believe in the "Pay It Forward" concept. Third, I am organizing the World's Largest Job Search Networking event scheduled on September 7 (LABOR DAY) and also need to concentrate on the logistics for that event.
I really believe if we all band together, we can make this movement a successful one. With your help we can make a difference and provide hope that people care.
What I need from you is to set up before the event, act as wingman during the mixer and just make sure everyone is having a good time. I would also need for you to post on different websites and ask everyone to tell their friends about our events. It is really easy.
If you are interested, I would like to assign you a venue that I have arranged. Please email me at edwin@pinkslipmixers.com or call me at 310-406-7992.
Let's keep providing hope to one another and find each other jobs.
Thanks
Edwin Duterte
I need organizers for a few reasons. First off, my savings are depleted and can no longer afford gas, food and other travel costs. Second, I am hoping to organize events across the country and need to devote more time to find organizers who believe in the "Pay It Forward" concept. Third, I am organizing the World's Largest Job Search Networking event scheduled on September 7 (LABOR DAY) and also need to concentrate on the logistics for that event.
I really believe if we all band together, we can make this movement a successful one. With your help we can make a difference and provide hope that people care.
What I need from you is to set up before the event, act as wingman during the mixer and just make sure everyone is having a good time. I would also need for you to post on different websites and ask everyone to tell their friends about our events. It is really easy.
If you are interested, I would like to assign you a venue that I have arranged. Please email me at edwin@pinkslipmixers.com or call me at 310-406-7992.
Let's keep providing hope to one another and find each other jobs.
Thanks
Edwin Duterte
Saturday, June 13, 2009
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