I’m giving a talk on employment on Saturday, November 12 from 5:40 to 6:40 p.m. at the 2016 NAMI-New York State Educational Conference.
In employment as in housing environment makes all the difference. Finding the job you love is imperative. Finding a home to call your own is imperative too.
I’ll talk here about a sense of place. Living in a city or town you love makes all the difference. I’ve lived on Staten Island. I’ve lived in Brooklyn: boroughs of New York City.
I’m not a fan of moving into neighborhoods and gentrifying them. I’m proud that I wasn’t ever guilty of gentrifying a neighborhood.
Where you live and where you work can sustain you emotionally not just physically or financially. Making money by making art–what’s not to love if you’re a quirky or creative person?
Staten Island was all white all the time when I lived there years ago. It’s where a cop killed Eric Garner in a choke hold.
Sometimes where you start out in life is not where you have to remain. A lot of times you have to leave that place to have a better life.
Everyone needs to live and work in a place where they feel they belong.
I’ll be talking at the educational conference about how I coach peers and others in writing resumes and finding a suitable career.
The info about the conference will be posted on my website on the author appearance page so you can click on that link for more details.
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