<p>JUMP IN AND START SWIMMING was written as a result of a request from an&nbsp;Adjunct Professor at the University of Rhode Island to speak to his junior and senior students, who were beginning to find it difficult to secure jobs/careers after graduation. THE 2008 Stock Market Crash. accelerated an economic&nbsp;collapse , followed by&nbsp;the job market.&nbsp; I agreed to write a &ldquo;talk&rdquo; to be submitted to the Dean of Business, however, I found myself writing way beyond the plans.&nbsp; When I finally called the professor to schedule a date to come in to the campus and give my &ldquo;talk&rdquo;, I was informed of, '&nbsp;how much &nbsp;worse the situation&nbsp;had become for the students since we first spoke'.&nbsp; I also learned that a number of the students&rsquo; parents had unfortunately been&nbsp;laid off and were about to face the difficulty of paying student loans, especially unnerving, &nbsp;considering that their&nbsp;kids&nbsp;weren&rsquo;t finding&nbsp;jobs.&nbsp; It was becoming a serious mess, with no&nbsp;end in sight.&nbsp; In fact all three of my grown children had lost their jobs&nbsp;in what was beginning to look like the 2^nd Great Depression.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At the time&nbsp;I was initially invited to come in, I had already begun writing a memoir describing my unique career&nbsp;along with some family history for my grandchildren.</p>

<p>My parents landed on Ellis Island in a fiercely cold winter during the Great Depression with just the clothes on their back.&nbsp; I knew their story of course, and I was aware of how they survived.&nbsp; With, &ldquo;No money!&rdquo;, &ldquo;No place to Live!&rdquo;, &ldquo;No Jobs!&nbsp;&ldquo;No Nothing!&rdquo;&nbsp; So I thought that by sharing their story along with my career information, I might inspire the students to &ldquo;press on&rdquo; with real life struggles, and overcoming obstacles during what was&nbsp;scarier time in American History, while introducing them to new&nbsp;career&nbsp;opportunities..</p>

<p>The combination of the two caused my 'talk'&nbsp;to evolve&nbsp;into my first&nbsp;book, &nbsp;I just needed a title.&nbsp; I decided on a saying that my mother often quoted, &ldquo;Jump In and Start Swimming&rdquo;.&nbsp; It was her way of telling us to&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;take a leap of faith&rdquo;, when she saw us stuck and&nbsp;unable to make a decision.&nbsp; As you will learn, upon reading my stories her saying&nbsp;had a profound&nbsp;effect on my life.</p>

<p>Once my readers finished the book, I received all types of questions and requests for more elaboration on what I did exactly to be successful.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;As a result, I wrote: &nbsp; RELATIONSHIPS OPEN DOORS,&nbsp;which describes the number one technique that I learned and employed for over 30 years.&nbsp;The art of relationship building and networking is a&nbsp; A SKILL&nbsp;THAT EVERY&nbsp;COLLEGE&nbsp;STUDENTS NEED&nbsp;TO MASTER TO GET A CAREER !</p>

<p>Finally, I published job guide for them, including my thoughts and advice for finding a job/career. &nbsp; 'JOB AND ASSISTANCE FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS AND RECENT GRADUATES' available only as an eBook on Kindle $1.99</p>

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