You may remember a few weeks ago when Amanda Lowe (during her week at Reframe Marketing) helped set up a pop-up event in downtown Vancouver.
For your viewing pleasure, here’s the video of the event:

Greetings all! You may (or may not) know that we’re in the midst of fundraising for the last phase of the One Week Job documentary. Our goal: $4500 in 17 more days. Learn more and donate here.
In this latest update, I share the philosophy behind using “crowdsourcing” as a viable funding model [...]

One week jobber Amanda Lowe is in Vancouver this week, working with Reframe Marketing. As part of her tasks, she figured it would be great to promote an event about One Week Job!
So here’s the deal:
We’re holding a “pop-up” event just outside the Vancouver Art Gallery in downtown Vancouver. We’ll [...]

Several people have informed me that too much time has passed since I’ve last written – I’m sorry for that! While I have been using my time for many other things (as always), that is not the reason for my blogging absence. It’s been awhile because frankly, I’ve been having trouble figuring out what [...]

On May 13, 2010, we held the official book launch for The One-Week Job Project. The evening consisted of a meet and mingle in the Port Moody galleria:

Photo: Elaine ‘Bayley’ Happer

Photo: Matt Procopation

Photo: Elaine ‘Bayley’ Happer

Photo: Elaine ‘Bayley’ Happer
Around 8pm we moved into the adjacent theater for a short book reading with Sean and [...]

We’re thrilled to announce The One-Week Job Program!

The One-Week Job Program is designed to provide others the opportunity to participate in a similar experience to my original journey. The first semester of the program will take place this summer 2010.
Here’s the low down:
1. 3 lucky individuals
2. 8 different jobs (one week at each)
3. $1500 [...]

Question: How do you write a book?
Back in 2008, when I first signed the publishing contracts with Penguin and Random House, I glazed over the clause outlining the expected length of the finished manuscript – a cool 90,000 words.
At the time, there was no way I could grasp the amount of work required to [...]

Photo: Nordica Photography
It’s been a while since the last update on the documentary (almost a year in fact). Much has happened since then, so I figure it’s high time to share it.
First, let’s go back to early 2009. Sean and I had asked everyone to help donate towards the film, to help [...]

I just got back from meeting with Random House (American publisher, May 4) in New York City, and Penguin Books (Canadian publisher, Mar 28) in Toronto. We were discussing ideas for upcoming book release of The One-Week Job Project, and how best to market it.
I invited my mom, sister, and baby niece to come [...]

Since the end of the One Week Job journey, I’ve spent countless hours writing the book. I’ve also received a lot of questions about the book writing process and so I’m going to explain how it works according to my experience.
First Step – Write a book proposal
A book proposal is an excerpt from [...]

Greetings all! It’s been a few months since the last blog post, but both Sean and I have been busy.
You may already know that Sean is hard at work writing his book, based on his experiences during the One Week Job project (to be published Spring 2009).
Myself, on the other hand, have [...]

Today, Sean and I woke up early. We packed our bags, and stole out into the crisp Manhattan morning, bidding goodbye to our sanctuary for the past 3 weeks.
I hailed a taxi, and we rode out to La Guardia airport as the sun rose behind billowing grey clouds. The plan was to head [...]

Today started out as a day like any other. A day of breakfast, a cup of coffee – your basic productive morning. Sean worked on answering his emails, setting up his next jobs, and preparing for his current one as New York photographer.
And then…we realized the site was down. [...]

I still haven’t decided where I will be working next week, though I would like to stay in the New York city area for two more weeks. If you have any ideas/contacts, send me an email or give me a call!
Or, if you have any One Week Job offers anywhere else in the world for [...]

Hey everyone, just a quick note to ask for your help in promoting One Week Job. We’re currently (as in this second) gathering Digg votes for our article today on CNET. So if you’ve got a moment, it would be a big help if you went and dugg the article:
http://digg.com/world_news/Job_wanted_for_one_week_only/
Thanks for your help!
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