Looking for a JOB? - Come to the FIRST Bronx LGBT Career Fair on May 26th

The Bronx Community Pride Center in collaboration with Bronx AIDS Services, Community Healthcare Network, The Center, Hispanic AIDS Forum, SAGE, Next Magazine and the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (BOEDC) present

The First

Bronx LGBT Career Fair

Thursday, May 26

10am-2pm

Come meet with employers, learn about open positions, submit your resume and ask questions!

Click here to submit your resumé in advance to be distributed to all co-sponsors.

Click here for resumé writing and career counseling now available weekly at the Bronx Community Pride Center.

Visit the Bronx Community Pride Center online for more information.

Hostos Community College

120 Walton Avenue, Second Floor (@ 149th St., a block West of the Grand Concourse. 149th Street/Grand Concourse Stop on the 2, 4 and 5)

Turn Your Passion INTO Action

MEGA Dream event producers Nefertiti A. Strong and Richard E. Pelzer II announced on July 19^th the first The Passion To Action Series to be held at the Bennett Career Institute, 700 Monroe NE, Washington, DC 20017 on Saturday, September 25, 2010.

The first (50) attendances to purchase a ticket will receive a FREE copy of Author Thembisa S. Mshaka book PUT YOUR DREAMS FIRST: Handle Your [entertainment] Business sponsored by Joya Cosmetics.

For more information or tickets go to ThePassionToAction.com Seats are limited. Group Discounts are available for 15 or more people.

Film/TV Casting Director and Producer Winsome Sinclair & Entertainment Branding Executive/Author Thembisa S. Mshaka have teamed up to engage, enlighten and empower professionals to discover a career in entertainment called The Passion To Action. This series created and produced by Nefertiti A. Strong and Richard E. Pelzer II of MEGA Dream asks people, ‘How will you move from Passion to Action?’ Are you doing what you truly want to do with your career? Join this dynamic duo Winsome and Thembisa as they discuss career paths, entrepreneurship, family, the entertainment industry, life and living one’s dream. Their Passion To Action weekly blog is currently posting on Essence.com to provide their online community with expertise, testimony and hard-won advice available no place else on the Web.

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Zolra's Corner: Career Passion vs. Career Money

After years of loving, studying, testing, and pursuing what you want to do in life, you are finally at the point where your career is in the palm of your hands. Every time you wake up in the morning, you are off to your job that you always wanted to have. You put all your intelligence, passion, and sweat into those hours you’ve spent at your job. Then once you come back home you feel like you brought home the bacon, even though it is time for dinner. No matter what the payment is, you are excited to do what you wanted to do in life.

This is an example of career passion. This is when someone is so passionate about their career they will do it no matter what the cost. As long as you work hard, your compensation will increase. It can also be included in the term “Nonpaid to Paid.”

Not only that, but it can also follow the quote “It’s a blessing to do what you want to do, and it’s a miracle that you get paid to do it.”

Apart from career passion, there is one thing that many people can’t believe is happening. Some people have experienced these things and couldn’t believe that they’ve gone through this. When you’re at a point in your life where you choose you’re career, some people choose a career simply because of its high compensation.

One look at the career and some are thinking “During the first year, I can get paid this much? I’ll take it.”

It’s situations like this that brings up a similar question. Are we so consumed by money, we replace our passion to get close to a piece of paper?