The 405 Club

Members of The 405 Club Learn for FREE with Lynda.com.

New York, March 1, 2010 — Effective immediately, unemployed professionals who are members of The 405 Club, The Official (Un)Employment Support Network in New York and beyond, will have access to more than 45,000 training videos at Lynda.com, which offers tutorials that help users learn, master, and apply digital tools and techniques.

Contest Information

How To Win aka The Rules:

1. You must be a member of The 405 Club to win. What does that mean? Join either our Ning Network or become a fan of our Facebook page.
2. Fill out the fields of the entry form here - super easy. Be sure to tell us which digital tools you’re looking to learn using Lynda.com’s Online Library - Excel, Outlook, Photoshop, etc. Keeping it short & sweet is encouraged.
3. Once you click “Subscribe to List” just confirm your email address and voila!
4. That’s it! Just complete Rules 1, 2 and 3 by March 21st at 11:59pm. Winners will be chosen the following week. Stay close to the405club.com for updates!

10 Grand Prizes:

10 winners will be chosen at random to win 30-day full subscriptions to Lynda.com’s Online Training Library®!

And there’s more… continue reading for complete details including more deals for everyone on Lynda.com.

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i’ll be honest. i currently enjoy having the time to cook a variety of delectables that i see on america’s test kitchen, make sure all the laundry is done, clean the bathroom, practice the viola, and get caught up on battlestar gallactica. these are definitely things i didn’t have the time to do only a few weeks ago. but, in the long run, i don’t know if that’s going to be enough.

until recently, i oversaw approx. 20 people and supporting one of the largest auto manufacturers in the world. those were some of the things i liked about it. and they paid me well for it. in previous jobs, i had such a sense of pride negotiating with digital publishers and creating unique and interesting digital campaigns. it was exciting, and it was ego boosting.

my friends tell me that i need to find a new sense of pride and not identify who i am with what i do. i don’t disagree, but it’s how i’ve identified myself for so long, at least in my own head.

before, i was an associate director. i directed people and teams. i was in charge of their success and failure, on the front line, with the client. that’s who i was.

so, now, who am i?

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We all knew it was going to be bad news. That Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 25, 2009, the publisher of Radio & Records, had called a “Town Hall” meeting for all staff, both on the East and West Coasts. He, in fact, had flown from New York to L.A., along with the head of human resources. If that’s not a sign, then the sky is green.

Our New York bureau comprised the smaller group of staffers for R&R—my editor P, a sprinkling of fellow editors and writers, and the charts department—all shared with Billboard. As the conference call began at 3 p.m., we shifted anxiously. “As we all know, these have been difficult times in publishing, with ad revenues down and a challenging economy,” H, the publisher began. “Unfortunately, today is not going to be a good day for R&R. There are going to be layoffs.”

And then—in what might possibly be among the cruelest, if not least professional methods to follow up such an announcement—we were told to return to our desks and wait for a phone call, which would then reveal our fate. Apparently, the publisher was a pro when it came to “Layoffs for Dummies.” I sat, locked at my cubicle, explaining this unorthodox maneuver to my Billboard co-workers, when… ring.

It was editor P, asking me to join him in the human resources office. It took all of two seconds to figure this one out: My boss is calling. He sounds tense. If I’m staying, why would I be called into human resources? Standing up, I announced, “It’s me.”

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