Week Nineteen Announced - Brewmaster (in training)

This week I will be working with "The Good Beer Folks" at Steam Whistle Brewing, one of the few independently owned Canadian breweries around. They are located in the heart of downtown Toronto and apparently brew an incredible Pilsner (I will be sure to do some research and get back to you on that one). Elizabeth, who works in the marketing department at Steam Whistle, was really awesome to take time out of her Sunday to pick Ian and I up from the airport yesterday. She had a schedule all made up for the week and it looks like it is going to be pretty busy. I have heard only good things about Steam Whistle and everyone that works there, so I am really looking forward to the week and I am sure it will be a lot of fun.

Today I will be helping out with the tours of the brewery and then bartending tonight at an event sponsored by Steam Whistle. Throughout the week, I will also get to do some brewing, bottling, deliveries, sales... and of course probably the most important, remembering to take time for the necessary tasting to ensure quality control;)

We started filming for the first episode of One Week Job which will be coming out next week. We are currently looking for sponsors for each weekly episode - get all the details on our 'Show' page!

If you are in the Toronto area, I will be on Breakfast Television Wednesday morning talking about One Week Job and my week at Steam Whistle. Better yet, if you do live in Toronto, make sure to pop in to the brewery, say hello, and jump on a tour!

See you there!

-Sean

It Doesn't Get More General Than Agnew's

A store to end all stores. I have never seen a store before like Agnew’s General Store. The variety of things in there is really quite remarkable, how they keep up with all the ordering and dealing with that many distributors I have no idea. You could find anything you could ever possibly need in that store, and then to top it all off, you could head across the street when you are done shopping and pick up an ice cream cone for the road.

I spent the week doing a bunch of different things, I got to fold t-shirts, sort mail, work in the garden center, price and shelf items, help with deliveries, cut a key… well, it’s a General Store so pretty much a whole lot general stuff.

I realize the best part of all my jobs is all the cool people that I get to meet week after week. I really enjoyed getting to know the Barker family here in Wilberforce and that was a huge part of my experience here. We spent a lot of time visiting, we went to this old house that was turned into a movie theatre, played restaurant with the kids, and my week in Wilberforce would not have been complete without going Geocaching. Wilberforce, Ontario is the Geocaching Capital of Canada. So, when in Rome…

Basically, Geocaching is a treasure hunt for adults with GPS equipment. Geocacher’s hide what are called cache’s, usually some kind of container and inside you can find a log book a long with various trinkets. The co-ordiantes (longitude and latitude) of the cache are placed on the Geocaching website, a long with clues on how to find the cache and people can set out to try and find them. Once you find the cache, you can sign the log book, and trade one of your trinkets for something that is in the cache. You would be surprised how many caches are in your neighbourhood, probably alongside a path that you regularly walk on, it is like an underground secret society of Geocachers. Put in your postal code on the site and you will be surprised.

I am going to make things a little more complicated now â€" in some caches people will place something that is called a travel bug. A travel bug can be anything such as a small teddy bear, some kind of trinket, and this travel bug is given a mission by it’s original owner to complete a certain task. For example, in the very first cache that we found, there were two travel bugs (two small toy pirates). These two pirates are on a race to see who can reach all three oceans that surround Canada and make it back to their original cache. I have one of the pirates. I will be taking him to Vancouver when I go this week and will meet up with a local geocacher who can then place him in a cache on the West Coast - one ocean complete!

This is "Bloody Sam Roberts" - the travel bug:

Are you convinced yet that Geocaching should be included as an Olympic sport in Vancouver 2010?

Anyways, now that you know where Wilberforce is, that it is the Geocaching Capital of Canada, and what Geocaching is, set your GPS to Agnew’s General Store (N45`02.267 W078`13.383) and ask for Mary, aka, “Sticky Moose” in the Geocaching world. She will set you up with all you need to try it out for yourself.

It was a short week as I didn’t get into Wilberforce until late Monday night and then left on Friday to Toronto so that I could catch my flight to Vancouver for the week. My friend is getting married next weekend, so I am heading home for that and to prepare things for when I start my next One Week Job in Toronto Monday, July 30th.

What am I preparing for you ask? Well, I got a pretty fun announcement that starts my first week in Toronto, but have to hold off until Monday to let you know about it - I promised a reporter with the Canadian Press the exclusive on it.

Until then,

-Sean

Week Eighteen Announced - Storekeeper

I received this offer quite early on in One Week Job and I am pretty sure that I decided I had to go immediately after I finished reading it. So, here I am - Read for yourself!___________

Hello Sean!

Bring your hard working self to Wilberforce, Ontario to Agnew's General Store and experience the retail business in cottage country. A family owned and operated business since 1921, we're five generations deep. In fact, until Grama passed away just last month, you could have easily found four generations standing side by side on any given day!

Located at the centre of the Geocaching Capital of Canada, Wilberforce is a small community that grows in size with the arrival of the cottagers and outdoor enthusiasts in the summer. Looking at a map of Ontario, you'll find us at the southern tip of Algonquin Provincial Park, a great place to canoe/kayak, horseback ride or hike.

Agnew's General Store has grown since 1921 with the addition of the Garden Shed, Eileen's Ice Cream Shop and the Cache Stash so there's no end to the action around here. Just when you've finished helping Elsie find the butter and have Larry's plumbing needs all figured out, Eileen's Ice Cream shop needs an extra scooper. And when everyone is happily licking their cones, away you dash to load 30 bags of cow manure into someone's little Mazda.

Enjoy talking to the different groups that gather to chat, linger over the giftware or ponder whether they need one half or three quarter inch screws for that new deck. Some people rush in to get steak for the BBQ and others spend hours strolling through the outdoor Garden Shed but each one has a story to tell.

In addition to above mentioned daily action, you may also have the pleasure of: wrapping produce running the cash register finding someone a toilet plunger filling the milk case unloading the hardware truck talking to the locals watering the flowers sampling the fudge (yep!) dusting the giftware talking to some cottagers sweeping the floor cutting a key talking to some campers mixing some paint grinding some hamburger talking to some geocachers weighing some grass seed filling the coffee pot dead heading the petunias talking to some visitors putting together a wheelbarrow re-folding some shirts or pricing the eggs (but no grass cutting, that's Harley's job)

By Friday you'll know the difference between a Porterhouse and a T-Bone steak, you'll wow your friends with your knowledge of cottage plumbing solutions and in the future, you'll know exactly which flowers to put in that planter on the end of your dock!

And as if that wasn't enticing enough, we have a spare room at our house and could use a good dishwasher/baby sitter. We even have a trampoline!

For fun, after hours we swim and kayak in the many lakes, ride our bikes and hike the surrounding forests. And to really top off your stay, we'll take you geocaching! (Treasure hunting with a high tech twist... a GPS!) A man with your sense of adventure is sure to appreciate a good cache and the Geocaching Capital of Canada has just that!

The "Ice Cream" On The Cake

I am currently in a very small town called Wilberforce, ON and haven't really had access to internet which would explain my recent lack of posts. Anyways, I made it here eventually after quite the long haul from Marathon - a 9 hour overnight bus to Sudbury, then had a bit of difficulty hitch hiking the rest of the 4 - 5 hours to get here, although I did meet some interesting people a long the way. It took me about 6 rides and I had to do quite a bit walking with all my bags. A cop pulled over to register my name and he said that he recognized me from an television interview or segment on One Week Job. He actually made a good suggestion that if I make a sign saying something like One Week Job guy, it might be easier to get a ride - not a bad idea.

I ended up being just over an hour outside of Wilberforce, a long the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, and it was getting dark. Lucky for me, two guys (Tony and Sylvester) who happened to be heading right through Wilberforce were kind enough to stop and give me a lift before the mosquitos ate me alive.

It was funny. I was getting worried, not too sure what to do, thinking about finding some nearby homes and knocking on doors, then an hour later I was in a town called Wilberforce and eating one the largest ice cream cones I have ever seen. Mary (one of my employers for the week), met us in town, brought the keys to the shop and treated Tony, Sylvester and myself once we arrived. It was pretty awesome!

Time to go do some Geocaching! Afterall, Wilberforce is the Geocaching Capital of Canada. I will tell you more about it soon, but check out www.geocaching.com to find out more.

-Sean

Only Triathlons In Marathon

I had a great week in Marathon and really felt welcomed to the town by everyone I came in contact with. In case you were wondering, the weather did work out for us and it managed to stay sunny whenever the race was in progress. Here is Joe, Andy, and myself just after the triathlon on Sunday.

Everything with the triathlon went smoothly, definitely a little chaotic at times with lots’ going on and trying to sort out all the logistics, volunteers, timers, the course, etc. This is where I was able to exercise the “honourary” that was included in my job description before the title of Race Director. It worked out well that there were two of us, because a lot of things were going on at that the same time. And ofcourse because I needed some time to take some random photos like this:

We held a charity BBQ after the race with all proceeds going to support the Make Poverty History campaign. I was able to sport a pretty stylin’ apron and we had a lot of fun with it.

After the triathlon had finished and everything was cleaned up, we headed back to Andy and Bevs’ place where we had our second BBQ of the day with some of the volunteers, organizers and participants. It was a great finish to an awesome week and I am glad that I was able to stay around to be a part of it.

Joe had his bag pipes out, everyone had drums, and we were making up songs as we went. A favourite was, “Sean is going on the bus” and “Hit the road Sean” â€" if only we had recorded it, I think we were really onto something.

As you may have guessed, I took the bus out of town shortly after and headed East on an overnight bus towards the town of Wilberforce.

Thank you to everyone in Marathon for your kindness and generosity! I can’t wait to return one year and this time compete in the Penn Lake Pursuit Triathlon. Perhaps I could even perform at the Concert in the Park(ing) lot series out front of Andy’s Pizza Hut â€" though ofcourse I would need my multi-talented right hand man Pipin’ Joe McGill.

Take care,

-Sean

Longest Day Ever, Longer Than A "Marathon"

Warning: You can probably expect to see at least one more cheesy blog post title incorporating the word "Marathon" before I leave town. Today was quite the day. I was picked up at 9am to start setting up and preparing for the triathlon and I didn't get back to where I am staying until 10:30pm. I had some candy, a beer, and took a shower then was out the door again to go to the bar, well it is kind of more like a bingo hall - the kind of place where you are just as likely to be hanging out with your parents friends as you are with your own, yet that's what makes this town great.

It is another early day tomorrow (Sunday), with the second leg of the triathlon. I will post some pictures hopefully tomorrow afternoon.

Still not too sure how I am getting to Wilberforce as of yet, but I am sure things will come together!

-Sean

Marathon, ON - The Coldest, Warmest Town In Canada

Well the Concert in the Park(ing) lot Wednesday night went really well. I was hosting the event which I was kind of nervous about coming into it, but after having arrived in town and met some of the people it was easy to feel comfortable. All the proceeds from the concert are going to be donated to the Make Poverty History campaign and everyone was very generous and supportive!

Joe and I were the last to perform in the concert and I made sure to lower all expectations that the crowd would have for my congo drumming skills when I introduced our act. I managed to keep a beat and allowed ‘Pipin’ Joe’ to work his magic on the trumpet and the bag pipes. Afterwards, I thought I would put it out there if anyone was interested in taking some lessons from me, surprisingly there were no takers.

Our focus has now shifted to preparing for the Penn Lake Pursuit triathlon this weekend and the last two days have consisted of: setting up the fencing, talking about how unusually cold the weather has been, cleaning the triathlon route, removing rocks from the lake, running errands, talking about how unusually cold the weather has been… It actually has been quite cold and I have had a permanent chill since I arrived. It will make things interesting when it’s time for the particpipants to start the swimming leg of the race tomorrow!

It’s been a great week so far and everyone has been so kind to me. Especially, the family that I am staying with - Andy and Bev. Andy owns the Pizza Hut in town and so I have been able to satisfy my craving for breadsticks on a few occasions. Earlier today we went into the kitchen and I invented a new creation for our lunch. Look for it on the menu next week available only in the Marathon Pizza Hut, just ask Andy for the 'Sean Special.'

I also got to go for a ride around the town in the Fire Truck today which was also pretty cool!

After Marathon, I will be making my way towards the town of Wilberforce, Ontario to work at Agnew’s General Store. Apparently Wilberforce makes Marathon seem like a big city, so should be a pretty cool experience. I am not too sure how I will be getting there as of yet â€" it takes about 14 hours by car and by bus they take some ridiculous route that takes 22 hours. Anyone heading that direction?

-Sean

Congo Drums, Bag Pipes, And Triathlons: A "Marathon" Of A Week

I arrived into the town of Marathon, Ontario yesterday after flying into Thunder Bay from Toronto. Marathon is situated about 3.5 hours East of Thunder Bay. If you have never heard of Marathon before, check out this map or find out more about it on their towns website. It is a great little town on the shore of Lake Superior and everyone has been so kind and very welcoming to me. It will be a busy week with the concert tonight and the triathlon this weekend, but is definitely going to be a lot of fun. Last night after dinner with Andy (the concert organizer), Joe (the triathlon organizer) and their families we played some ultimate frisbee in town and then headed to Joe's place so we could practice our set for the concert tonight.

As well as hosting the concert tonight, I will also be banging on some drums alongside Joe with his trumpet - trying my best to look as if I know what I am doing. It took me a while to get the beat down last night on the congo drums, but I did get it eventually with the help of some repetition in my head - "paradiddle, paradiddle, paradiddle... bop bop" I think today we might be throwing some bag pipes into the equation, so it could get quite interesting!

Today I have some media interviews to promote the concert tonight and the Penn Lake Pursuit Triathlon happening this weekend. There is still space available for the triathlon, so if you are in the area and want to come out, you can register up until and including race day. If you don't feel like racing, make sure to come on out and watch as it's going to be a great time!

Early start to the day this morning at the local radio station, CFNO. I got to do the weather again which is always fun. Unlike last time the host wasn't fllirting with me which made it a bit easier to focus on the task at hand!

Okay, time to try my hand at those bag pipes!

-Sean

Week Seventeen Announced - Race Director & Concert Host

After finishing up on Sunday at McGee's Inn in Ottawa, I headed towards Toronto and I fly out today to Thunder Bay, Ontario. Not too sure exactly what the plan is as of yet - I think I am being picked up at the airport to go to my next One Week Job in Marathon, Ontario, but I guess we will see. For my next job, I will be the Race Director of a Triathlon, called the Penn Lake Pursuit. The triathlon is on the weekend, and I will also be the host for a concert in the park[ing] lot series they have going on Wednesday night in town. I am really looking forward to the upcoming week; I love small towns and the people that I have been in contact with just seem so friendly and excited to have me. They even referred to me as the "celebrity" race director in the brochure that was sent out for the triathlon, so thats pretty cool:)

If you are anywhere near the town of Marathon, Ontario this upcoming week and want to participate in a Triathlon or just to check out whats going on, stop on by and give me a call, 416-735-9335, it is sure to be a really fun week so stay tuned!

Cheers,

-Sean

My Life As An Innkeeper

I had a great week working as an Innkeeper at McGee's Inn in Ottawa. It's a great atmosphere to be a part of and everyone here has been so kind to me... not to mention the breakfasts are great! Could I be an Innkeeper as a career? Perhaps for some time, I really like the idea of having all those rooms available so during holidays you can bring all your family and friends together under one roof. I think it depends on what you value in life, what you are looking for in terms of work life balance. Being an Innkeeper, it seems like a career in which your social life and work tend to merge on its own. As in, you are just living, doing your thing, but you just happen to always have house guests.

In any business, there is always something you could be doing. So when you live where you work, I think it can be difficult to put everything down and stop for the day. Especially in a business such as a Bed & Breakfast - you are up at 7am getting ready to serve breakfast and your last guest could check-in sometime late evening. As was the case last night, poor Jason.

Jason is one of the owners and is a pretty awesome guy. He was in the military for five years and for a time he actually used to be one of the guards that stand in front of the Parliament buildings, and so at a certain time every day he was a part of the infamous and life altering 'changing of the guards.' Anyways, here is a picture of Jason and myself out front of the B&B.

I have taken some video clips of what I was up to this week, so I am going to try to edit them and make a short video for Monday. Tonight I am heading to Bluesfest to meet up with some friends and see some concerts: Manu Chao, and Sarah Harmer.

Tomorrow it's off to Toronto where I will fly out to Thunder Bay on Tuesday, then make my way to a small town called Marathon, Ontario where I will be the Race Director of a triathlon. Should be pretty interesting - considering how I just had to look up the proper spelling of triathlon!

Anyways, if you are in Ottawa tonight and want to go to a concert, give me a call, 416-735-9335.

-Sean

Eggs Benedict With A Side Of Omelette

I have had a great couple days working in Ottawa this week at McGee's Inn. Even though I haven't seen many Bed & Breakfasts in my day, I can recognize a good one when I see it. And McGee's is definitely a great one. They have a beautiful building and decor; not to mention the breakfasts are gourmet. They are located within walking distance of the dowtown area, yet off the main roads in a quiet neighbourhood. A bit of history for you: The building was originally built in 1886 for John McGee, brother of Thomas D'arcy McGee, one of the Fathers of Confederation.

McGee's Inn is family owned with four members of the family working here. It made me think about how in choosing a career, we are also choosing a certain lifestyle. We must factor this in to the decision, such as, where do we want to live, do we want to be near our family, do we want to be in the city, etc., etc. As in any career decision, going into the B&B business was a lifestyle choice - by having the Inn, the family is able to spend a lot of time together and is able to spend more time with their two young children.

I start bright and early at 7:30pm and it's into the kitchen to help serve breakfast to the guests. It is nice working at an Inn as the people you deal with are on vacation and so are generally pleasant. By the end of breakfast yesterday, I was serving up a descent looking Eggs Benedict and Omelette, my hospital corners when making the beds still needs some work, but I got breakfast down.

My career coach, Alan Kearns, lives in Ottawa so I was able to meet up with him for coffee on Tuesday and talk about what I have learned as a result of my experience with One Week Job. He definitely knows what he is talking about and had some great insights and advice for me. With my column for the Globe and Mail, my editor keeps saying that I have trouble focusing on a specific object lesson, being a little vague and trying to cover too much ground in one article.

After describing to Alan my latest learnings, probably using too many words in the process to describe what I really mean, he was able to identify the lesson and state it quite simply. Definitely helped me get some focus for my next article and provided a bit of direction/motivation for the project in general. Thanks Alan!

-Sean

Week Sixteen Announced - Innkeeper

This week I am working at McGee's Inn Bed & Breakfast in Downtown Ottawa. It is a family owned business with 14 bedrooms and I will be doing a bunch of different things throughout the week at the Inn: cooking, serving, cleaning, bed making, weeding, moving rocks... etc.

I will also be staying at the Inn, so it will be nice to actually have a bed and my own space for the week. Oh yeah, and the best part is that breakfast is included!

-Sean

A Recipe For 'Cat Tails' Anyone?

Here is what I was up to last week working with the Picking / Distribution company of wild products based in Montreal, Quebec. Does anyone know what you can make with Cat Tails anyways?

Picker/Distributor - Wild Products

Although it is still tough to put a title on it, after yesterday I now have a better idea of what my job this week is all about. I am working with a company who collects wild products, ie: peppermint, specialty tea leaves, cat tails... etc. processes them, and then sells them to restaurants and specialty boutiques in the Montreal area. It will be interesting as I will be able to see the process from going into the bush and picking the various products, preparing them for the market, and then visiting various restaurants and selling them.

Here is what I was doing for 10 hours yesterday...

My morning yesterday started at 5:30am and I didn't get back to where I am staying until close to 6pm. It was a long day and I now know what a cat tail is, looks like and how to prepare it for market; though I wouldn't be sad if I never saw another one again.

-Sean

Week Fifteen Announced... well kind of

I am heading off this morning at 5:30am. What exactly I will be doing, I am not entirely sure as of yet. I know that we are heading outside of the city of Montreal to collect, vegetables, plants, etc. and then bringing them back into town, processing them, and then selling them to high end restaurants. That's all I kind of know at the moment. How exactly all this works, or what exactly we are picking, I have no idea, but I imagine I will have a good indication when our 12 hour work day is done and I will be sure to let you know!

Until then,

-Sean

Who Really Does The Choosing?

As I got up this morning, put on my suit, (which has been sitting in my suit case for the last three weeks), took out my map, and got on the metro to go to work; I thought to myself, wow, I am heading to my first day on the job in downtown Montreal with a company I have no previous knowledge of, have never met, and I have no idea what the week will entail.

This is ofcourse the case of most Monday mornings, but every now and then I find myself viewing the experience from an outside perspective and just think to myself, "Sean, this project you started is kind of crazy." Definitely keeps life interesting I guess. I like to think of the quote; "A journey of a 1000 miles, begins with a single step." I think that is one way I am able to keep moving forward; one step at a time.

I was speaking with the President of the company this morning, Nathalie Francisci, and I asked her how 10 years ago she chose her career path and started a head hunting firm. Her response was interesting and it made me think about 'choosing' careers in general. She said that she didn't choose the career, and that in a way, it in fact had chose her. I guess if we truly love what we are doing, then there is really not too much choosing involved and it just kind of makes sense. It makes me think of happily married couples in which we often here how the decision to marry their spouse was the easiest decision of their life.

When One Week Job is all over, will I really choose a career, or will the different characteristics I identify as what I need in a work place situation, simply come together to form a career I will love doing? Sure, I chose to go on the journey and discover what these characteristics are, but what 'career' comes out in the end won't be as difficult a choice as commiting to the journey in the first place.

I spent the morning organizing media interviews for the following week in Montreal. It should be quite busy, though I must say a big thanks to Carla Shore for helping me sort all that out.

Everyone working with Venatus Conseil Ltd. Talent Brokers is really nice and they were kind enough to show me how the whole recruiting process works. They had received a new mandate today so I was able to see how the process starts off. It is like detective work; generating a list of all potential candidates, qualifying these candidates and then narrowing them down until you find the right one.

Tomorrow a Quebec Television station (TQS) is coming into the office to do an interview which will be the first time that I give an interview about One Week Job in French. At times I find it difficult to express myself in English, so it should be interesting how I manage in French!

If you find yourself in dowtown Montreal tomorrow, drop by the office and say hello!

-Sean

PS - Pledge Your Passion

Week Fourteen Announced - Talent Broker

This week I will be working with Venatus Conseil Ltd. Talent Brokers, a corporate position recruiting firm based out of downtown Montreal, Quebec. Venatus Conseil Ltd. has offered their services for large and medium-sized clients in Quebec since 1997. They are recognized for their expertise in the recruitment of corporate positions, with their main pratice areas consisting of accounting, finance, legal services and human resources.

It will be great to have a different perspective on the job search being able to look at the process from the other end. Hopefully I will end up with some good tips to share for all those out there in similar situations as me. However, I am a firm believer that the interview process should be equally focused on asking ourself the question; "Why do I want to work for this firm," as much as it is from the employer asking; "Why would you make a good candidate for this firm."

-Sean

Week Thirteen Announced - Researcher

This week I will be working with the language school here in Trois-Pistoles (C.A.F.E.L - Centre d'accueil et de formation en langues). This year is the schools 75th anniversary and is an awesome environment to be immersed in Quebec culture and learn the language. There are few different programs here. If you are a student I would definitely take a look at the MyExplore program in which you can receive a bursary from the government to take a five week french immersion session.

The town is looking to increase the amount of programs offered here throughout the year and so I will be working with the school to figure out how the best way to go about that would be, is it feasible, what time of year, etc.

As of now, next week I will be heading into Quebec city.

-Sean

Safety Goggles Are Back In Style

I spent the last couple of days working at 'Portes et Fenetres Bernier' (Windows and Doors Bernier) in Trois Pistoles, Quebec. It has been a pretty quiet week so far at the shop as there are not too many jobs on-going at the moment. Which is really nice though because I have a lot of work currently trying to get some articles done for my potential future column in the Globe and Mail.

Tomorrow we are going out on the road to Riviere-du-Loup to make some installations. Here is a picture of me getting ready to hit the road.

Working at a 'Windows and Doors' company made me realize just how many jobs are out there constructing random products that we use everyday. I was attaching a mesh screen to a window frame and thought to myself; there is a company who simply makes mesh screens. How one gets into that business to begin with, I have no idea, but somebody has to do it and I am sure there are quite profitable.

I am curious if they are enjoy what they do? Who knows, but I am sure it is a good story how the person who started the company saw a need for mesh screens so went and started a mesh screen business. With summer coming up and the mosquitos coming out, I for one, am thankful they did.

-Sean

Week Twelve Announced - Framer

This week I will be working with a framing company who makes, installs and repairs windows and doors. I am not too sure what exactly I will be doing there as of yet but I am sure it will involve some wood and building stuff so that is pretty exciting. When I was growing up I rarely helped my dad out around the house with construction type projects, so it will be nice to work in an environment such as this and develop some handy man skills.

The last couple of weeks I have been working with the editors of the Career section in the Globe and Mail and it looks like I will be contributing a weekly column to the paper throughout the summer. It is not absolutely certain as of yet, so I am kind of holding off on announcing it but I will know by the end of this week with a tentative start date of my first column running next Wednesday June 13th. I will keep you posted!

I am looking to be in Quebec city the week of June 17th and then into Montreal, so if you have any contacts, ideas for potential jobs or simply just want to meet up, give me a shout!

-Sean