Mining+for+Gold+Nuggets

=Mining for Gold Nuggets=

====Once we've been ousted from the workforce against our will, how do we get back in? It's not easy. In my own case, I've been out of work for 10 months (as of Oct. 3, 2010) and, despite doing my Unemployment Compensation job-app penance weekly, I have YET to get a callback for an interview. Another friend was off more than 15 months before finally turning to a temp agency, hardly what she wanted. She got a 12-week placement in a job that does not make use of her fine skills. Yet another topnotch reporter just told me he's driving a bread truck - but savoring the lack of stress and the great smells, if not the low pay.====


 * What can we do to make things right in our world? This is where you offer your ideas, tell us what has worked for you, what things got you in the door for an interview and got you hired. We'll also post upcoming events that are on point here, too. We're open to them all at Old Gold.**
 * ====**"Generational Differences"** will be the topic of the Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce's Oct. 21st Business and Breakfast. Speakers will discuss the positives of each generational group. The values represented by each generation, how to address differences in the values and how to use those different characteristics to build highly effective teams in the workplace also will be discussed. Speakers include Ken Utech, Stephen Utech and Melissa Borowicz of Utech Consulting Inc. The event will be held 7-8:30 a.m. at the F.K. Bemis Conference Center at St. Norbert College. The cost is $18 for chamber members and $35 for nonmembers. For additional information, visit titletown .org or call 920.437.8704.====
 * ====I've enrolled in **graduate school**, since most of the jobs that interest me are seeking a master's degree. But will they hire me since, even with a master's, I'll still be in my 60s? As one of my classmates was told by a professor when she questioned the advisability of going back to school and being 50 when she gets her master's, "But you'll still turn 50. Wouldn't your rather be 50 **AND** have a master's degree?"====
 * Good book if you think you need an **attitude adjustment** as you head back to the workforce. **"Dealing WIrh People You Can't Stand"** by Drs. Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner, McGraw-Hill. Get to know the inside skivvy about you...and about that boss who cut you loose!
 * ====Suggestions, ideas, things that worked for you? **We're open to them all at Old Gold.**====