Here are some links about some education programs that might help those of laid off from Aces and found our skills that were so compatible with Flight Sim and so forth were not valued in the rest of Microsoft.
There are programs where you can receive your unemployment benefits while taking classes to make yourself more employable. There are a lot of catches. — you’re dealing with goverment bureaucracy after all — but BC in particular has very experienced people to help you figure out if you qualify and help you with the process.
Workforce Education:
http://bellevuecollege.edu/we/wetrainprog.asp
Approved Training Programs:
http://bellevuecollege.edu/we/wrp/wrptrainprog.asp
They have regular info sessions on campus which you have to attend:
http://bellevuecollege.edu/we/wrp/default.asp
Info about receiving unemployment:
http://bellevuecollege.edu/we/wrp/wrpui.asp
I highly recommend you attend the CAT/TB session. I ended up having to fax 14 pages for my application. If you don’t do things just right, you may mess up your UI status forever.
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I attended a job fair hosted by Amazon in Second Life. It was a very innovative idea, but as often new approaches are, the norms were far from established. Half the attendees didn’t alter the default avatar and a few went really wild. There was a blue dragon and a female avatar in an antebellum ball gown. I didn’t get a screenshot of those, but here is one of the actual fair environment developed by Amazon. Is a dog outfit appropriate attire for a job fair? Hmmmm…
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“Scrapbook Memories” included a segment about Zentangles. http://www.zentangle.com/index.php
It’s an interesting concept to formalize doodling. I’m a regular doodler, but I might try this method as a creative exercise….
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Tagged scrapbooking
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Lucky was successful at hatching two chicks. I asked my son to hold them for the picture. I didn’t notice until later he was wearing his “geek” tee-shirt!
”There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t” from www.thinkgeek.com.
Geek Chicks
Needless to say, their names are “Zero” and “One”.
My friend Jill posted a cool link about a feline celebrity with a camera round on Facebook.
http://www.photographercat.com/
I also love this site. I wish I had the skill to set-up a cat door like that for Arwen. I was distressed last week when I found a half-devoured rabbit in my bedroom and later that night she brought in a bat from the porch roof. Needless to say, I put the screens back on securely on the windows!
http://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Control/flo_control.htm
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My sister Karen sent me the CD “Rockferry by Duffy. I had never heard of her before, although she is Welsh. I really am enjoying her. Thanks Karen!
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Patience while I learn about WordPress, especially adminstrating it on my site.
