Green Collar Jobs Training Program Update (7/16/09)

Today was a fairly simple day being that the offline sustainability workers had a "day off." With no worked planned, there was really no reason for workers to come into the office or waste personal gas money just to get into Hilo. Also the hours the workers would be available to work made it difficult because trainees also had to attend a meeting set up the the Hawai‘i Workforce Development office. Because the program is about in end in a week, the Workforce Development advisers gave trainees a class on how to increase their success in finding, applying, and interviewing for a job. Many of the trainees will be going back to school when this the Green Collar Jobs Training Programs ends, and given the current economy some will also have to work jobs at the same time. It's difficult, but they will take with them a new and improved list of skills and knowledge that they either gained or refined as the result of the Green Collar Jobs Training Program!

Although some of the workers did have the "day off", other workers, a.k.a. the online sustainability workers, still had to come into the office and continue daily task of updating websites, writing blogs, and client work. It's just another day in the office, but they can't complain because it's work nonetheless and work is very hard to find in this current economy.