I just came across this nifty teleseminar.  I must confess that this is actually one of my own personal 347 dream jobs, so I’m a little biased perhaps.  This baby’s coming up this Wednesday, so you’ll need to hurry to get involved.

This one comes courtesy of Valerie Young, the Dreamer in Residence, over at Changing Course.

Here’s what Valerie has to say:

If you love the idea of starting your own sports camps for kids join me this Wednesday, January 23rd from 8:00-9:00 as I talk with John McCarthy, social entrepreneur, baseball coach, literacy advocate and founder of the Home Run Baseball Camp.

I first learned about John in 2001 when he was featured on a Today Show episode. I was incredibly moved by his story and by the work he does with kids. (Watch this short video… I’m pretty sure it will make your day
http://www.homerunbaseballcamp.com/html/news.html)

The parents love the camp because John “sneaks in” values like the importance of being on time, reading, nutrition, and remembering to thank others. The kids love it because, in a time when many parents are obsessed with winning, John downplays competition and instead emphasizes the importance of effort over skill. The camp’s motto “Talent is what you have; effort is what you give” is an equally valuable lesson for anyone - adults included - seeking to change course.

John also has a strong commitment to literacy and social entrepreneurship. For example, in 1999, John joined forces with former Major Leaguer, Pepe Frias and educator, Sister Lenore Gibb to start Beisbol y Libros (Baseball and Books) in a small town called Consuelo in the Dominican Republic. Since that time Beisbol y Libros has helped over 400 children ages 5-16 by offering access to reading tutors and professionally trained baseball coaches.

John’s work has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, on NPR’s Morning Edition, and on the Today Show. And now for the Fast Track Your Dream Community Dream Maker Teleclass!

Listen in as John shares his amazing journey and offers advice on how you can find work you love and about his plans to train a select group of people to run their own values-based sports camps for kids. This is one Dream Maker Teleclass you don’t want to miss!

Wednesday, January 23rd
8:00 - 9:00pm Eastern Time

This Teleclass is free to current members of the Fast Track Your Dream Community.

Non-members are welcome to attend for $19 with all proceeds going to the non-profit micro-grant organization TrickleUp.org Click here to learn more to register.

p.s. If you know of a sports lover who enjoys working with kids who you think might be interested in learning about John’s coach certification program, please pass this along.

Looks like a winner.  Check ‘er out.

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In the 14th of my new Ask-A-Pro series, I’d like to present you with Coleen Sykora, an RV-traveling-and-living writer and business woman

In the Ask-A-Pro format, I’ll tell you a little about the author and how-to-find-your-dream-job expert . . . then via the Comments section to this post, please feel free to ask a specific question about the career or job in question.

Anyone (expert or not) is free to post responses to your query, and I or the author/how-to-find-your-dream-job pro may chime in as well.

This is your chance to get unbiased advice from a real, honest-to-goodness-been-there-done-that dream job professional.

So, here goes . . . Coleen on living and working from an RV and all things continent-trekking.

Coleen Sykora began full-time RV living in early 1992 with her husband, a dog, and a cat.  Her RVs have been old and new, large and small, travel trailers, and motor homes.

She is a freelance writer and lifestyle consultant.  She believes positive actions yield positive results.  She writes what she lives.

Coleen publishes the Workers on Wheels website and the RV Life and Travel website.  She also publishes two RVing ezines, Workers on Wheels for RVers needing to earn a living while traveling, and Life As We Live It . . . On the Road with Coleen and Bob, a personal travelogue with lifestyle information.

She is a regular contributor to numerous print and online RVing and travel publications.

In addition to RV and travel topics, Coleen writers about her other interests.  She is the content manager of Relax, Refresh, Recharge, a website with practical solutions for feeling better mentally and physically.  She is also editor of the Hot Spicy Foods website.

Dream Jobs To Go Titles
Get a Life by Living Full-Time in a Recreational Vehicle
Make a Living in a Recreational Vehicle
Get Started as a Property Caretaker
Get Started as a Flea Market Vendor

Current Profession
I combine travel and food writing with property caretaking and selling new and used merchandise. When we’re RVing, we sell at flea markets and farm shows. When we’re taking a break from RVing, we sell at our second-hand store.

Websites or Blogs You’d Like Us To Know About
Workers On Wheels
RV Life and Travel

What Would You Be Doing If You Weren’t An RVing Writer and Vendor?
Dying. Seriously, I love what I do and if I weren’t doing these things, it would probably be because I was lying on my deathbed.

Life Philosophy
It’s not what I intend to do, but what I actually do, that matters. The easiest way to finish a task is to start it.

Favorite Food
Shellfish and Cajun food

Favorite Read
Regional cookbooks, especially those put together by churches and community groups. They are cultural goldmines.

Favorite Author
Nick Russell

Favorite Travel Destination
The Gulf Coast – southern Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana

Favorite Music
Classic country

Favorite Sports Team
J-Bar-B Hill’s Ice Racing Team

Favorite Movie
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Favorite City
Tampa, Florida

Favorite Country
U.S.A.

Favorite Animals
Dogs and cats

Your Hobbies
Reading, writing, traveling, and ferreting out oddball things to buy and sell.

Favorite Websites (Other Than Your Own)
Merriam-Webster Online

Favorite Quotation
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.  Beverly Sills

Favorite Drink
Milk

Why Do You Live Where You Do?
We have a home base in Alaska because my husband fell in love with the state and wanted to own a piece of it. We alternate between living in our cabin and in the RV.

If You Could Live Anywhere You Wanted, Where Would It Be?  Why?
In my RV, traveling the U.S.A. Because of the freedom, flexibility, great scenery, great foods, new people, and new experiences.

The Greatest Things About Being An RVing Writer, Caretaker, and Market Vendor?
The flexibility and variety. I never have to worry about life being the “same old, same old.”

The Worst Thing About Being An RVing Writer, Caretaker, and Market Vendor?
I come across so many great opportunities and I just don’t have time to pursue as many of them as I’d like to.

If A Young Person Approached You About Getting Into Full-time RVing, Writing, Caretaking, and Market Vending, What Would You Say?
The two things you need most to succeed are desire and determination.

If An Older, Career-Changer Approached You About Getting Into Full-time RVing, Writing, Caretaking, and Market Vending, What Would You Say?
What are you waiting for? The time will never be exactly right. Get going!

The Most Important Piece Of Advice Anyone Ever Gave You About Life?
Strive for excellence — not perfection.

Any Other Advice You’d Like To Share With People Who’re Thinking About Getting Into The Full-time RVing Lifestyle?
The saddest thing is when people write me telling me how they dreamed of traveling and full-time RVing, but were waiting for something or another, and their spouse — and consequently their dream — died while they were waiting. Don’t wait. Don’t let your dream die.

Any Other Comments About Full-time RVing, Writing, Caretaking, or Vending You’d Like To Share?
You can do these individually, but they all work fabulously together. They’re all adaptable to many situations. Pursue them and make your life what you want it to be.

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In the 13th of my new Ask-A-Pro series, I’d like to present you with Anne Wayman, freelance writer and boat bum.

In the Ask-A-Pro format, I’ll tell you a little about the author and how-to-find-your-dream-job expert . . . then via the Comments section to this post, please feel free to ask a specific question about the career or job in question.

Anyone (expert or not) is free to post responses to your query, and I or the author/how-to-find-your-dream-job pro may chime in as well.

This is your chance to get unbiased advice from a real, honest-to-goodness-been-there-done-that dream job professional.

Over to you, Anne.

Anne Wayman is a freelance writer who stumbled into boats and boat bumming after her children were grown.  She moved to the San Francisco Bay area for a writing job that didn’t pan out, and discovered the Sausalito House Boats.  After renting a floating studio, she was given a skiff that needed significant repair.  This led her to seek advice, which resulted in her first lesson about boats:

If you ask three people how to do something on or about a boat, you will get at least four answers, all of which will work.

She bought a small houseboat (really a converted lifeboat that had been built in the 1930s), and moved to Galilee Harbor, probably the country’s only low-income housing project where the houses are boats.  There she learned her second lesson about boats:

Boats, by definition, are never finished.

Galilee Harbor is a place that gathers together artists and members of the working waterfront.  There she got to crew on two commercial salmon fishing boats off San Francisco and one commercial herring boat in the bay.  Fishing offshore led her to explore blue-water cruising.  To finance her first trip, she polished boats, learning her third lesson:

When you’re working on a boat, it grows; when you’re living on one, it shrinks.

Anne later flew to Fiji in the South Pacific to join a boat.  The original plan was to stay on one boat, sail for four to six months, and end up in Hawaii.  She actually ended up cruising for five months, on three boats, and ended up in Brisbane, Australia, leading to her fourth lesson:

Whatever your cruising plans are, they will change.

Anne has also crewed boats from Hawaii to California, along much of the Inland Waterway of the East Coast, and on trips to Catalina and other southern California ports of call.  She also served as crew for a couple of days on a tug boat on the Napa River in northern California and is generally at home in any marina and on many boats anywhere you happen to find her.

She is currently berthed in San Diego.

Dream Jobs To Go Title
How to Bum Your Way Around the World on a Boat

Current Profession
Freelance Writer and Writing Coach

Websites or Blogs You’d Like Us To Know About
The Golden Pencil, Writing With Vision, and About Freelance Writing

What Would You Be Doing If You Weren’t A Writer?
The problem is the grandkids . . .  if I were boat bumming I couldn’t see them nearly as often as I like, although I am plotting to get them on boats.

Life Philosophy
Today? This too is passing – but overall? Life is exactly as good as I make it.

Favorite Food
Fresh caught salmon – wild salmon

Favorite Read
From mysteries to philosophy

Favorite Authors
Ken Wilbur, Faye Kellerman, Nora Roberts writing as JD Robb, and Emerson.

Favorite Travel Destination
Next, I’d like to skipper a boat on the canals of Europe.

Favorite Music
Blues – the rastier the better.

Favorite Sports Team
Who me? I’m the one who wouldn’t notice if football disappeared completely

Favorite Movie
Right now it’s Inconvenient Truth

Favorite Cities
Brisbane, Australia, San Francisco, Vavau in Tonga

Favorite Country
Oh my, do I have to choose?

Favorite Animal
MzTiz, my tabby cat

Your Hobbies
Pottery

Favorite Websites (Other Than Your Own)
Orisinal and Craig’s List 

Favorite Drink
Wet cappuccino made with Peet’s Coffee

Why Do You Live Where You Do?
It doesn’t snow here and two of my grandkids live here.

If You Could Live Anywhere You Wanted, Where Would It Be?  Why?
Costa Rica looks good . . . so does Australia…

The Greatest Things About Being A Freelance Writer and Writing Coach
The freedom

The Worst Thing About Being A Freelance Writer and Writing Coach
The unpredictable income

If A Young Person Approached You About Getting Into Freelance Writing What Would You Say?
Write, rewrite, and market

If A Young Person Approached You About Getting Into Boat Bumming What Would You Say?
Go for it!

If An Older, Career-Changer Approach You About Getting Into Freelance Writing What Would You Say?
Write, rewrite and market

If An Older, Career-Changer Approach You About Getting Into Boat Bumming What Would You Say?
Go for it . . . quickly.

How Would You Define Success?
Sometimes I define success by my bank account, but that doesn’t work very well. What works is making a gratitude list, then I know I’m successful

Any Other Comments About the World Of Work You’d Like To Share?
Go ahead, follow your dream!

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In the 12th of my new Ask-A-Pro series, I’d like to present you with Sherril Steele-Carlin, currently a freelance writer, but in prior lives a national park, casino, and airline employee.

In the Ask-A-Pro format, I’ll tell you a little about the author and how-to-find-your-dream-job expert . . . then via the Comments section to this post, please feel free to ask a specific question about the career or job in question.

Anyone (expert or not) is free to post responses to your query, and I or the author/how-to-find-your-dream-job pro may chime in as well.

This is your chance to get unbiased advice from a real, honest-to-goodness-been-there-done-that dream job professional.

So, here goes . . . Sherril on working in national parks, casinos, and the world of words.

Sherril Steele-Carlin lives in Reno, Nevada, and worked in casinos when she first moved to the area. She knows many people who work in the casinos in Reno, and her experience working there taught her the odds in the casino are always in their favor.

Today, she’s a full-time freelance writer, living about an hour away from one of our great natural wonders, Lake Tahoe.

She’s published numerous articles in print publications like Rock & Gem, The Original Farmer’s Almanac, American Profile, Nevada Magazine, Cat Fancy, and many others. She also writes for several websites.

Dream Jobs To Go Titles
Living and Working in a National Park
Casino Jobs
Airline Jobs

Current Profession
Freelance Writer and Researcher

Websites or Blogs You’d Like Us To Know About
RenoTahoe

What Would You Be Doing If You Weren’t A Working in Parks, Casinos, Or Airlines
I’d be a professional landscape photographer.

Favorite Food
Anything Mexican

Favorite Authors
James Michener and Irving Stone

Favorite Travel Destination
The Grand Canyon

Favorite Music
Soft rock and smooth jazz

Favorite Sports Team
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (but I like the old name better!)

Favorite Movie
Singing in the Rain

Favorite City
Victoria, B.C.

Favorite Country
Ireland

Favorite Animal
My four cats

Your Hobbies
Cross Stitch, Cooking, Reading, Gardening, Crafts

Favorite Websites (Other Than Your Own)
eBay

Favorite Quotation
Life in the city can make you crazy
For sounds of the sand and the sea
Life in a high-rise can make you hungry
For things that you can’t even see
– John Denver

Favorite Drink
White wine

Why Do You Live Where You Do?
Because I hate big cities and would never live in one again.

If You Could Live Anywhere You Wanted, Where Would It Be?  Why?
On a 100-acre ranch in Montana (see above).

The Greatest Things About Being A Freelance Writer
The freedom and the creativity.

The Worst Thing About Being A Freelance Writer
Paying the bills, finding work, and nasty editors.

If A Young Person Approached You About Getting Into Freelance Writing, What Would You Say?
It’s a job, not just an adventure! Treat it like a business, and always be on the lookout for new work.

How Would You Define Success?
I think success is different for everyone. Success for me is the ability to live the life I want, do the work I love, and live where I’m happiest. It’s not all about money, but what you do with the money, and your time, I think, that marks success.