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So, you remember when I told snaxcident about webinars and she told her boss and all hell broke loose?

We were talking about it the other day while she cursed the name of Webinar, and I said, "I have to ask, though, are the webinars at all productive? Are they bringing in new clients or at least new contacts?"

She made many frowny faces at me but said, "Unfortunately for me they have an incredible ROI - they are generating lots of leads, especially in the states. We hired an event manager to manage our webinars because they became so popular."

This means I literally talked a job into existence. I have created employment for someone! Let's hold onto that magic.

Let's have a SAM'S CAFE JOB FAIR.

The job fair is simple!

Leave a comment about where you are and what you do and what kind of work you're looking for (use your own good common sense about how much personal info to share). If you're looking to hire, know someone who is, or have resources to share, feel free to post those too!

I'll kick it off: I don't have many general jobsearch bookmarks anymore, but if you're looking for Not For Profit Jobs, there's a place to start.

Have at it!

ETA: Comments have been locked due to spammerz. Sorry guys!

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LOL, so it turns out my karmic reward for running the job fair is to get a $150 cut on tomorrow's paycheck. MY LIFE, FOLKS.

Payroll fucked up the sick day I took, and they're very sorry but the paychecks have already been cut and they can't cut me a separate check, so I'll just get that $150 on my next paycheck on the 13th. Which would be fine, except this paycheck pays my rent, thanks, and $100 of that $150 was kind of necessary. :P

I have a good job and a life full of perks, plus a savings account and a credit card, so I don't actually need money per se. I can cut a deal with my landlord and the money will reach me eventually at any rate. (If you are thinking of nipping over to paypal, consider people in more dire need than myself -- graduate_maria is short of their goal and the shelters and aid orgs always need help. Srsly, don't send me moneys.)

But it got me thinking about what I would do if I did desperately need to raise money fast, combined with a remark a friend made to me a while ago about what I could go for on the free market. And I thought, well, what if I ran some sort of original-fiction short story festival? Say, for a small consideration, I promised a thousand-words-minimum to prompt or freestyle, distinctly non-fannish.

I don't know, is this a good thing? Do we think this is taking advantage of my position vis a vis the internet? Do we think this is sheer ego? I'm not a good judge. I have no idea what amount is even decent to ask, and I doubt I have time right now anyway. But I like the idea of getting the writing practice in, making a little cash, and perhaps compiling them afterwards and putting out a volume of short stories through Extribulum Press.

It's strange, really -- if I were doing this for charity I wouldn't hesitate and I wouldn't even dither about price, but it's different when I want to earn the money for myself. Artists often devalue their own work; people don't do art because it pays well, they do it because they love it, or at least that's why I do it. So it seems wrong somehow to ask for money for it.

Anyhow. It's interesting to mull over. Your thoughts on this topic are welcome.

In other news, I did three things today:

1. POSTED MY MOTHERFUCKING FANFIC MASTER LIST. THAT'S RIGHT.
2. Added summaries and warnings to all fanfics what had it not. Every fanfic has (or should have, I may have missed some) at the very least a warning note reading "Warnings: None." Fanfics with possibly triggery content have, to the best of my ability, been tagged with appropriate warnings, and there is a specific request on the Master List to contact me if you hit content that wasn't warned for so that I can apologise and make it right.
3. Realised, whilst doing the above two items, that it really is true: I cannot organise my life. I can only cross-reference and index it.