Neighbors-Helping-Neighbors: Bad News and What to Do....

Neighbors-helping-Neighbors USA, Inc. (NhN) is a cost-free, highly successful Peer-led volunteer support and networking group targeted to individuals who are actively looking for work and interested in reinvigorating their job search. Membership is open to anyone in career transition, including unemployed or underemployed individuals and recent college graduates in the fields of business, non-profit, and education, as well as persons re entering the job market, struggling small business owners and retirees looking for part-time or volunteer work.

For more info www.neighbors-helping-neighbors.com

It’s been a rough few weeks for New Jersey, job seekers and non seekers alike. Hurricane Sandy slammed right through without any mercy, any restraint, and left thousands without power, damaged millions of dollars worth of property, and stall the job searches of so many.

Honestly, how are you supposed to leave your house if you have 200 mile an hour winds?

The flooding and power loss made things harder. And then there was the gas crisis we had to endure. First, no power to run the pumps, then no gas left in the tanks, then even-odd and cash only. Who knows how many station jacked up the prices without us knowing about it.

Today, we have news of the jobless rate dipping from 9.8 percent…

To 9.7.

To make matters worse, New Jersey is said to have lost over 11,000 jobs mainly due to storm activity.

So much for, what were they calling it? The Recovery? The Jersey Comback? The

Middle Class something or other?

What is a job seeker to do?

Stop reading so much into the news.

With all the bad news that is floating around; Hurricane Sandy, National Debts, the Government falling off a fiscal cliff, international mayhem, it is very easy to think that all hope is fading away and only a lucky few can and will get anywhere. This kind of negative thinking, depressed thinking, can be fueled by all this carnage if we let it. By controlling the amount we date in, however, and not cutting ourselves off from it completely, we can begin the process of controlling our thinking and increasing our motivation.

The next step is to remember our successes. We have all had work in the past, we have all been to school, we have all accomplished. We might be told that those accomplishments are minuscule and unworthy of any praise and congratulations. And while previous accomplishments on the job may not be worth a parade, they were important to us and we achieved them. Remember the positive you have done; those accomplishments and keep the positive you want to accomplish in the forefront of your mind. Let that motivate you in your job search in the face of disasters and depression.

And, while you’re at it, let Neighbors-Helping-Neighbors help you!

There is no cost ever.

Only inspiration!

Check out our schedule below and find a meeting place near you. Join, partake, and become part of our community!

Hasbrouch Heights meets Mondays from 12:15 PM until 1:45 PM. Join!

NhN Meeting Locations
Founding NhN Library Program

River Edge Library
685 Elm Street
Thursdays 7:00pm-8:30pm
Phone - 201.261.1663
http://riveredge.bccls.org

Bergenfield Library
50 West Clinton Ave.
Tuesdays 7:00pm-8:30pm
Phone - 201-387-4040
http://bergenfield.bccls.org

Hawthorne Library
345 Lafayette Avenue
Tuesdays 7:00pm-8:30pm
Phone - 973.427.5745
http://hawthorne.bccls.org

Westwood Library
49 Park Avenue
Mondays 7:00pm-8:30pm
Phone - 201.664.0583
http://westwood.bccls.org

Ridgewood Library
125 North Maple Avenue
Thursdays 7:00pm-8:30pm
Phone - 201.670.5600
www.ridgewoodlibrary.org

Waldwick Library
19 East Prospect Street
Mondays 7:00pm-8:30pm
Phone - 201.652.5104
http://waldwick.bccls.org
at St Lukes while library
room is renovated

Mendham Township
2 West Main Street
Brookside, NJ 07926
Mondays 6:30pm-8:00pm
Phone - 973.543.4018
www.mendhatwplib.org

Englewood Library
31 Engle Street
Mondays 7:00pm-8:30pm
Phone -  201.568.2215
www.englewoodlibrary.org

Mahwah Library
100 Ridge Road
Thursdays 7:00pm-8:30pm
Summer Meeting Day
Tuesdays 7pm July -Aug
Phone - 201.529.READ
www.mahwahlibrary.org

Maplewood Library
51 Baker Street
Wednesdays. 7:00-8:30pm
(except 4th wed of each month)
Phone - 973.762.1622
www.maplewoodlibrary.org

Cedar Grove
1 Municipal Plaza
Thursdays 6:30pm-8:00pm
Phone - 973.239.1447
Http://cedargrovenj.org/library

Fair Lawn Library
10-01 Fair Lawn Avenue
 Mondays 7:00pm-8:30pm
Phone - 201.796.3400
http://www.fairlawnlibrary.org

Ringwood Library
30 Cannici Drive
Tuesdays 10:30am-12:00pm
Phone - 973.962.6256
www.ringwoodlibrary.org

Oakland Library
2 Municipal Plaza
Thursdays 10:30am-12:00
Phone - 201.337.3742
http://oaklandnjlibrary.org/

Emerson Library
20 Palisade Ave
Tuesdays 7:00pm-8:30pm
Phone -  201.261.5604
http://emerson.bccls.org

Oradell Library
375 Kinderkamack Avenue
Tuesdays 1:00pm-2:30pm
( every other week )
Phone - 201.262.2613
http://oradell.bccls.org

Cranford Library
224 Walnut Avenue
Wednesdays 6:30-8:00pm
Phone - 908.709.7272
http://cranford.com/library

Hasbrouck Heights Library
320 Boulevard
Mondays  12:15pm-1:45pm
Phone - 201.288.0484
http://hasbrouckheights.bccls.org

Lake Hiawatha Library (Parsippany)
68 Nokomis Ave.Lake Hiawatha, NJ 07034
phone:(973) 335-0952
Tuesdays 7:15-8:45 pm.
http://parsippanylibrary.org/our-branches/lake-hiawatha

Monmouth County Library
Eastern Branch
1001 Route 35
Shrewsbury, NJ 07702-4398
Phone: (866) 941-8188
(732) 683-8980 (Freehold area