While this may seem like a shameless plug, I promise, it’s not. You will not often hear people call me “sweet” or “nice”… So when I do say something nice, you can rest assured it’s true. So on to the news:

My Davidson friends are all moving to New York this month (yay!) to begin what will no doubt be successful careers in theater. Of course, success in this department is even harder than publishing (gasp!) and it will take some time to get their collective foot in the door. Check out their sites:

Desi Domo

Kelsey Formost

Additionally, the beautiful Kelsey has started a design company to help pay the bills until she lands some sweet gig on Broadway. Read that again: She started a design company. I mean, come on! How cool is that?!?!

And along with said company, she created an amazing site! Talk about personal branding. Seriously, the woman has some talent. The plan is to make a few bucks painting portraits, taking photographs and refurbishing/painting furniture. While her moving date is still a little over a week away, the site is already up and running. And, because she’s incredibly talented, orders have already started flooding in.

I don’t think I can possibly stress enough the importance of being assertive and clever. For some reason I think this info goes in one ear and out the other. But a few people have picked up on the skills needed to actually get somewhere.

I came across another publishing/job hunting site called Julia Reads – which is run by a woman who is in the same boat I was a month ago. Instead of sitting by the computer hitting refresh every minute on Mediabistro, she is productive and learns everything she can about publishing and spews that info out into the blogosphere.

Why aren’t more people catching on to this amazingly useful, easy and effective job hunting tool? Ah, well. More for me.

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