Follow these instructions to be entered in the iPod Nano drawing to take place on January 10th, 2008.

Grand Prize: iPod Nano

• Watch the 2 videos below
• Compose an email to vote for your favorite one
• Put billy@wesleysleepprogram.com in the To line
• Put info@lifeaftergm.com in the CC line
• Put either “Wesley Sleep Commercial 108 A” or “Wesley Sleep Commercial 108 B” in the Subject line
• Send the email to be automatically entered in the drawing

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Wesley Sleep Commercial 108 A

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Wesley Sleep Commercial 108 B

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“Life After GM: Finding Work You Love After Buyout, Retirement, or Layoff”

Listen on the phone or online. Question and answer session included on the call.

Featuring Flo Grabowski

About Flo Grabowski

MISSION STATEMENT

Change lives; reinvent careers and grow businesses. Follow my passion for empowering others. Do the work I love. Plan my work around the life that I want.

Career/Business Coach in private practice in Columbia, Tennessee. An affiliate of the Dan Miller, 212 Connection. An instructor at the UAW/GM Skill Center. Her “48 Days” Class was voted the Skill Center Pick in 2007 by the Detroit Leadership. Presenter of “48 Days to the Work You Love” and “48 Days to Creative Income Seminar”.

Serves as Mentor/Ambassador for the Spring Hil Chamber of Commerce. A resource for the Society of Human Resources Managers Association and Employers Symposium.

2008: Created a Women Seminar Series. Hosted Chamber Luncheon and Business Mixer. Made over 40 public appearances.

Clients: UT Corporate Connections, City of Columbia, Columbia Career Center, Maury County Women’s Network,WAKM Radio, City of Spring Hill, TN Board of Probation and Parole, Career Symposium, Vanderbilt University, MBA 2007 Net Impact Conference.

Does career coaching because of her experience with the corporate downsizing process. Knows first hand how those going through it feel. Her Business Coaching started after coaching a few career clients and learning that she could share with others the business techniques that were working for her and help small businessowners to grow their businesses.

Brings over 15 years experience in Sales/Marketing, Customer Relations, Office Administration to coaching. My strong motivational skills and marketing efforts earned my State Farm Agency the #1 Auto Production and Top 100th Agency Award in 2003.

We’re charging you $1 dollar for this 60-minute live call. We ask that much commitment from you. We know if we can get you to fill in the order form and spend at least $1, chances are far greater that you’ll be on the call, care about the information presented, and do something about it!. It’s not so much that we want your dollar…we want you to do what most folks never do, and that’s love your work and in that, serve people!

* Beyond that dollar you commit to nothing!

$1.00

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Do you want to have a personalized LifeAfterGM email address like this one?:

JohnnyRocket@LifeAfterGM.com

I want my email address to be:
@LifeAfterGM.com

My current email address is:

You can check your lifeaftergm.com email via the web or with the email program you currently use.

We are constantly adding new content to the website. But since this site is about GM Alumni, then I need your help.

Send your GM stories, questions, and pictures to info@lifeaftergm.com .

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GM has offered some large cash payouts for people to leave the company. This can be a great opportunity for those workers who are ready to try something new in life. I want to hear stories of how you used these payouts to start a new business or a second career.

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Has anyone tried water4gas or any of the other devices that claim to increase fuel economy by more than 50% ? I have heard of several former General Motors employees who are experimenting with fuel saving products. Autoworkers should be good candidates to solve a problem like poor fuel mileage. So I want to hear from the GM Alumni. What have you tried? What worked? What didn’t work?

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• The Truth About Debt
• The Truth About Debt Consolidation
• The Truth About Debt Management
• The Truth About Credit Card Debt
• The Truth About Debt Help
• The Truth About Debt Reduction
• The Truth About Bankruptcy
• The Truth About Budgeting
• The Truth About Life Insurance

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The General Motors Doraville Plant opened in 1947. It has produced Buick, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and Saturn. This 165 acre complex has been a part of the landscape for 60 years. Thousands of people have worked there throughout the decades. Up to 1500 remaining employees could be losing their jobs.

What should be done with this prime real estate now?

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By: Carl Duncan

Like most people, I have always wanted to be my own boss and I have always loved electronics. So much that I have a bachelor’s degree in it. I just love how you can design a circuit and write some software to do amazing things.

One of the places I used to work was a firm that designed and sold custom electronics to business jets. They had a complete cabin system that controlled everything from the lights, audio and video equipment on the planes. My job there was as a switch design engineer. There I not only was able to design the electronics part of the custom switches, but was also able to write the software for it. One day I and some other guys at work were talking about how what the company does is not that hard and anybody could do it. From that day on, I always wanted to start a business doing something like that for boats and motor coaches.

About 2 years after I left that job, I read Dan’s book. That sparked the interest in me to go out and try starting my own business. So for a year, I would work on my ideas after I got home from work, designing and testing my circuits and writing software. This was going good till it actually came time to invest money into getting prototypes started. This would require a lot of money with little or no return for years to come. Since I also like to listen to Dave Ramsey, I did not want to go into debt to fund this business.

So I needed a way to make this business pay for its startup cost without putting too much of my money into it. I had heard Dan talking on his radio show with a guest host about selling on eBay as a home/side business. Since my cabin system would require lighting, I decided that I would try and help fund my business by selling lights on eBay. That was February 2007.

I found a place on the web selling 12V Led lights for $3.80 each, and I also found a seller on eBay selling the exact same lights for $9.80 each and he was selling quite a few of them. Since I knew about electronics and Leds, I decided that I would order 10 of them and see if I could sell them on eBay as well. I think back and chuckle at myself as I was starting out. My first purchase of lights set me back almost $50.00. But that 1st sell got me hooked. Soon I was ordering more of the same lights 25, 50, then with sweating palms 100 lights. Every time I took all the money from sales to buy more and more stock. After a few months I started looking for other lights to sell as well. I was all very nervous getting started. I had to keep telling myself to keep it growing, don’t chicken out, don’t quit, you’re your own boss (at least part time anyways). By November, I was averaging about $900 in sales, by January it was up to $1200 in sales. In February 2008 I made power seller status, average sales of over $1000 per month for at least three months. I just kind of landed in niche of selling 12V LED lights. It seems that is what most people are after. So now this side business is almost earning enough to fund my true business that I have planned from the start all along.

I’m still growing my business, and also still working a day job (for now). But one day I know I will be my own boss and it will be my day job. I’m not there yet, but I can see it coming.

EBay store: www.sovereigncontrol.biz

New store: www.12VLedLights.com (coming soon)

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This is a place for former GM employees to discover old friends, career ideas, and what life can be like after layoff, retirement, or buyout. This site is about and for those select few who have have walked the lines of an auto assembly plant on a daily basis.

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