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The Green Careers for Dummies Virtual Book tour is in the home stretch! See the book section below to find out where you can connect with me live.

There's one more Member Only teleclass scheduled for this month. Check out the Highlighted Events section for more information on expanding your network, and complete the survey to help us make teleclasses more available for you.

Find out how Jane Goodall's green career journey can inspire and guide your own. Read this week's Tip of the Week.

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Green Careers for Dummies

My Virtual Book Tour is on the home stretch! From now until the end of March, I’m visiting a variety of blogs and radio shows to chat with my hosts and their readers/listeners about Green Careers for Dummies.

Please come with me on the tour! You can post your comments/questions on each blog and I'll answer your questions right there on the blog of the day!

Mark your calendar for the upcoming Virtual Book Tour stops:

Wednesday, March 24:

Brandi-Ann Uyemura’s 2Inspired's Weblog

http://2inspired.wordpress.com/

Read my story about how I found my own green career.

Thursday, March 25:

Linsey Levine’s Blog

http://www.linseylevine.com

This article is especially for executive Career Changers who may be just starting to explore green opportunities.

Monday, March 29:

Romi Kher’s Ten Good Minutes

http://10goodminutes.com/

A blog interview series that provides career advice to young professionals.

Tuesday, March 30:

Quintessential Careers Blog

http://www.quintcareers.com/career_blog/ and

Career Doctor

http://www.careerdoctor.org/career_column.html

I’ll be responding to someone’s question about how to find a green career and providing some “how-to” guidance.

Wednesday, March 31:
Susan Joyce’s Job-Hunt.org

http://www.job-hunt.org/job-search-news/2010/03/22/ask-author-carol-mcclelland-your-green-jobs-question/
I’ll be answering a variety of questions for job seekers. You can submit your question on that page, right now.

For the article specific links, please visit our Book Tour Schedule or the Calendar on our home page (www.greencareercentral.com) the day of the tour stop.

S*A*V*E on Green Careers For Dummies. My publisher is celebrating For Dummies Month and offering a $5 rebate if you purchase any For Dummies book during March or April. Check out my book page and print your savings coupon!

To get the latest info on the book tour,

Highlighted Events

Although we don’t have a free teleclass scheduled this month due to the Virtual Book Tour, we are planning for future teleclasses.

What’s the best time for you to attend a teleclass? Let us know on our home page survey – go to GreenCareerCentral.com and scroll down on the right side for the survey. We’ll be using this information to schedule future calls, so please weigh in with your preferences!

Members Only Teleclass Events for March
(Log on to Green Career Central to Register for these teleclasses

that are included in your membership )

Expand Your Green Network - Building a strong, vibrant green network is one of the most important steps you can take to find your green career. On this Members Only call, you’ll have the opportunity to share who you are and connect with other Green Career Central Members.

Tuesday, March 29, NOON Pacific
An Interactive Networking Event – Log in to Register

Tip of the Week: Five Strategies that Launched Jane Goodall’s Green Career

Jane Goodall.

Just the name evokes so much in people who have been touched by her in some way.

Last Friday night I happened to see Jane Goodall’s interview with Bill Moyers. In addition to sharing stories from her recently released book, Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink, Jane shared stories about how her own career unfolded in unexpected ways.

Did you know Jane’s original career goal was to be a Poet Laureate and a naturalist? In the early days, she had no intention of becoming a scientist. And she certainly had no idea she would travel the globe as an activist!

Her ultimate dream was to live with wild animals in Africa. Amazingly enough she succeeded in achieving that goal! From there her career continued to unfold in ways that aligned with her passions and strengths.

As she described her career story to Bill Moyers, I was struck by the ways her mother nurtured the seeds of her passions that lead to her career. Her mother:

Encouraged Jane to read books about the topics that engaged her. In fact, her mother would search out books that allowed her to learn more and more about animals.

Supported her dream, never belittling her or her dream. Even though World War II still raged, commonly held beliefs about Africa highlighted the dangers above all else, and, oh yes, her gender made it seem highly unlikely she’d ever travel to Africa to live with wild animals, which was her deeply held dream.

Stressed that she’d have to “work hard to reach her dreams” and that she “could do whatever she set her mind to.”

Advised her to take advantage of opportunities. Imagine how different her life would have been if she hadn’t met Richard Leakey when she did. Did you know she first visited Kenya at the invitation of a friend whose family had just purchased a home in Africa? To take this trip she had quit her job as an assistant at a film studio in London to return to her mother’s home to work as a waitress to save as much money as possible to purchase her round trip ticket to Kenya. Just two weeks after arriving in Kenya she met Dr. Leakey who was impressed by her knowledge about animals. After becoming his research assistant, Dr. Leakey asked Jane to study the group of chimpanzees she studied for several decades.

Told her to never give up! Jane’s career has not been easy. The early years at Gombe can’t have been easy. Her current lifestyle, traveling 300 days out of the year to “challenge audiences to see themselves as caretakers of the natural world,” can’t be easy either. Yet she carries on with optimism, hope, and vision, sharing her message with young and old in ways that are compelling, motivating, and inspiring.

How Can You Leverage These Lessons that Propelled Jane Goodall’s Career?

Most of us don’t have an adult who is as committed to our future as Jane’s mother. If this is true for you, it’s up to you to give yourself this kind of encouragement, support, and faith. Even if you don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to “fanciful” passions, give yourself some time each week to deepen what you know about the topics that interest you. Although your next job may not embody your entire dream:

(If you were supported to explore your interests and dream big as a child, count your blessings, I know I do! Continue to give yourself the time and space to explore the topics that excite you. You never know where those interests will take you!)

(If you are a parent, look at ways you can incorporate these lessons in supporting your children to explore their interests and passions, even when their dream doesn’t seem possible or probable. This doesn’t mean your kids just follow their dreams to the exclusion of going to school and working. It means that they take classes that interest them; they take time when they are young to do low paid internships; they volunteer in ways that give them skills they’ll use in pursuing their dreams. Help them experience opportunities that will strengthen their chances of doing work they love and having the impact they want to have.)

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