DC Bloggers Brazen Careerist Meetup Recap

Ginger — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:24:14 +0000

Where else can you find an open bar, free goodies, good food and company? At the Brazen Careerist DC Blogger meetup! I was invited along with the other DC BC Bloggers for our first meetup where we shared good company and some good ole blogger networking. This wasn’t my first time to a blogger event but this was probably the best one to date.

Some of you are probably wondering what is Brazen Careerist? It’s the career HQ for all things related to generation X/Y. I first came across the site after this post by Ryan Healy and it validated my feelings around the baby boomer vs generation x/y battle you see going on in the workplace today. I was delighted to find that so many others my age felt the same way about their careers and actually wanted to see some change in how things are done within the realm of recruiting, retention, career development and adaptation to the generational differences.

After all, when baby boomer managers speak of our generation within a work setting, rarely have I found it positive. So this is a community that celebrates the changes our generation steadily brings to the workplace and of course, advice on how we can adapt while blazing our own paths.

This meetup was right on time because rarely do we ever get to meet each other face to face outside of reading each other’s posts, emailing for blog advice and spending hours on Twitter talking about everything but our blogs. Seriously, we had a good time. And, I think what was beneficial to me was to be able to connect with other bloggers outside of my niche and still feel that we had so much in common.

Many thanks to Ryan Paugh, Ryan Healy and Penelope for putting together this awesome event for all of us.

We also received copies of Penelope’s new book, Brazen Careerist, The New Rules For Success. Check it out! Look out for my review in a few weeks!

Girls Just Wanna Have Funds Meetup #1

Ginger — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:00:35 +0000

We had our very first meetup on Saturday and it was fabulous! I would like to thank each and every one of the ladies that came out, I had an awesome time meeting and getting to know everyone! We shared our goals, challenges and disseminated information about budgeting, personal finance books, networking and played CashFlow 101. I met some old and new faces which is always great because you get to put faces to screen names and get to know them in person.

Some of our goals include learning how to effectively budget monthly cash flow and expenses, investing for the long term, debt reduction, real estate planning/investing and curbing out shopping habits. Amen to that because I can relate to each and every one. Moving forward I am planning with one of the members to have her financial advisor come out to talk to us about some of the above mentioned topics. What I love about the group is that we are all so varied in our goals and financial goals so we can all stand to teach each other a few things in the area of personal finance. This is great because I really believe this will evolve into a really supportive group who helps each other to their stated/desired goal. Towards the end there was some talk of developing an investment club and Im open to that, I just want us to get to know each other before jumping in. People get funny about money and I’d ideally want us to have established relationships with each other to make the process easier.

Bar Louie accomodated the group by giving us a room secluded from the rest of the bar in the back. It was elegant, music turned low with personal service given to us by 2-4 servers, like our own dinner party. We expected around 60ish women but ended up with 25, which is fine, the general manager took care of us as did the rest of the staff. The general manager came over and thanked me for our patronage and I would totally utilize that space again because you can’t beat great customer service and an elegant setting for a group like ours.

I am in the midst of planning the next 2-3 meetups which look really great should things play out as I hope they will. Feel free to join us if you’re in the DC Metro area-Girls Just Wanna Have Funds.

Here are some of the pictures from the meetup:

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