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WLUK Fox 11
June 21, 2010
"Lemonade" shown at FVTC
GRAND CHUTE - A room full of job seekers in Grand Chute, looked for inspiration in unemployment Monday.
The group was watching a 36 minute documentary called "Lemonade" at Fox Valley Technical College.
The film follows the story of laid off workers from across the country as they cope with their pink slip. Then begin to find what really drives them, exactly where they're meant to be.
"It is kind of a process, you go through all kinds of phases, you're angry, you're upset, you're sad," Dave Miller of Appleton said.
Miller can relate to the movie. He used 15 months of unemployment to get more education.
"There's great days, there's bad days," he said. "There's great hours and bad
hours sometimes."
Miller just learned he's landed a job managing property and asset holds
for a local business.
The filmmaker, Erik Proulx of Massachussets says he hopes the six month project shows workers it's not a pink slip, it's a blank page.
"Losing my job was the beginning of the whole project, when I started losing my job and then blogging to other people who had lost their job and then hearing really inspiring stories," he said of his transition from ad agency employee to filmmaker.
"All of the rules have changed, there are no rules," Chris Czarnick with Job Seekers Network said.
Job Seekers Network showed the film and says it's an important
message. While unemployement is frightening for many, it can be an opportunity, Czarnick says.
"We as Wisconsin we have an unemployment issue, but I think we
also have a lot of support in place," Czarnick said.
Job Seekers offers five classes in two cities. Each leads about 100
people through a structured search.
In honor of the film organizers served lemonade, but to show
job seeking is hard work, audience members had to squeeze their own.
"It's really inspiring and I loved hearing the stories," Andee Vosters said.
Vosters recently started her own marketing company, after utilizing Job Seekers services.
Proulx is working on a spin-off film that will focus on Detroit. He says he's also writing a book and doing freelance ad consulting, to earn a living.
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