Joining the gainfully unemployed

Sorry to hear that, Adam. Any juicy details?

If you become destitute, I'll treat you to a pizza at The Pleasant. That's one meal you can count on, anyway :-)

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

I'm so sorry to hear this, Adam. Good luck!

(Especially after I just sent another newly unemployed journalist friend your way to see if you could help her...)

And I'd be happy to buy you lunch or dinner or a drink some time soon.

Sorry to hear that - I know the feeling.

Get the Globe to hire you to do their Your Town right.

Sorry to hear that, Adam. I do enjoy your website, though. Keep up the good work!

Join the club - out-of-work bloggers.

I'm sorry to hear that Adam. Tough times in the media, these days.

I will spread the word around. You might want to e-mail me - my husband's firm is looking for some niche programmer type people with mad skilz for specific stuff.

There are lots of us out here who would love to repay all the good that Universal Hub has brought into our lives.

I owe you hundreds of laughs.

Be sure we all know what you are seeking and how we might point you to opportunities. Time for some of the good karma to return to you.

You can practice your one minute elevator spiel on us!

i come to work every day with a lump in my throat. i know everything will workout for you. good luck

It is a disease that is spreading but there is a cure; it is called leveraging the network for the right opportunity. Keep us posted on how we can help.

Good luck in coming up with something else (whether UH-related or otherwise).

MEK

bummer, Adam, sorry to hear it.

I'm not sure if this will provide the needed income stream, but I was just thinking yesterday, "hey, The Swellesley Report has tshirts! Where are the UH ones?"

Thought it's already been said :sorry to hear about your "other" job.

I figured working on UH was already a full-time job as it is :=).

I'm sure you will find success somewhere else - along
with the others I hope some smart person at The Boston Globe
recognizes your talent and offers, at the least, some
sort of working partnership with you, if not a full-time job.

You may be a statistic, but you are certainly not alone. The rumors around h.b.'s office over at Soxaholix are coming true and it sounds like they're shutting down his job site soon.

If it gets too bad, don't be afraid to setup a paypal link. I'm sure you would get a very decent "first swell" of support from the community when you first put it up.

That's too bad Adam... I have been fired several times, my advice is take a couple days. But then let us know what you do and what you want to do, if you have any skills etc. There are probably readers who can help you.

You do it well!

This is rampant - all industries, all walks of life, literally each day - today is a bad day for a lot of people in the region.

Maybe it's time to put up a PayPal button.
Do you get extra ad revenue based on click-throughs?

Left Ahead! today? Do you want a link here so people can listen live?

Mike

Okay, now that you are employment-challenged, how can we kick in a few dollars through the website so that it doesn't become a "keep UHub up versus feed Kidlet" situation?

I feel like I'm freeloading here now.

That is some suck-ass news. Man but this economic climate has now kicked too many awesome people in the teeth. How do you kick it back?

And what can we do to help out? For the time being I'm clicking all the ads, okay. (Apparently they serve food at Chili's. Who knew?)

Now you can devote all your time and brainz to coming up with a sustainable profitable business model for journalism!

I kid. Sort of. Best of luck to both you and UHub in navigating these treacherous waters.

If you set up an Amazon affiliates link and store, a lot of us will start our Amazon shopping here. They have a great commission structure that should produce some good income from your loyal reader base.

So sorry to hear it...good luck, whatever you decide to do.

It was really tough to get to a comment screen -- I somehow kept clicking on those ad things all over the page. This may become a habit. Fill up the page with 'em. Or get a sponsor... like "Citizen's Bank Universal Hub Brought to You by Roche Bros."

Sorry to hear it, Adam. I'll put money on the Globe, they will absolutely need somebody who knows the news to keep figuring out how to grab headlines and ledes automatically from other local newspapers -- and how to defeat various roadblocks thrown up by those papers' websites -- all the while adding in bitter sarcasm and thoughtful insight.

If not, I bet that newly-promoted DeLeo might need a press officer. Anything to get better press than his predecessor. Worked for Derjue.

Maybe now you'll have time for blogging?

I've avoided the axe myself in this recession, but was out of work for eight months during the last one... It sucks.

Maybe you can go to Congress and get some of that bailout money. Universal Hub is too big to fail!

Read it here

Adam, as a relative newbie to UH, I've come to understand very quickly why this blog represents what "community journalism" is all about. I'm very sorry to hear about your layoff, and hope that this will prove to be the proverbial blessing in disguise -- hopefully by way of turning UH into the paying gig it should be for you.

With best wishes, David

I hope the Globe goes along with Dan Kennedy's idea.

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I'm so sorry to hear about the layoff - hang in there and I'll join the chorus rooting for the Globe to come to its senses and work with you!

Best wishes, Adam.

Layoffs happen. In this case, I bet they were thinking, "Really hate to lose Adam. Now we'll probably all be working for him in a year." :)

As others have said, this might be a rare chance for local and national news organizations to snap up one of the handful of people who could make all the difference in whether they succeed or fail online.

I get the impression that you'd be a great complement to Boston.com, for one example. They could hire you, plus buy UH (which is worth a healthy chunk, especially if they get you as a package deal).

Why don't you just go around the house, looking under the couch and dressers, collecting all the quarters and dimes lying around, and wrapping them with that coin-wrapping machine you've got but never used? I'm sure you'll find a ton of money.

And you aren't a statistic, because statistic is a common noun, and Adam Gaffin is a proper noun. So, technically, you are not.

Adam,

I was having a pretty good day until I heard this. Sorry.

Paul

Sorry to hear the bad news. I guess we're all in this recession boat together. Hopefully we're nearing the bottom and things will start looking up.

Adam, you're the man. I can't get you employed, but I can show my gratitude via a testimonial:

I've been registered at UHub for "3 years and 50 Weeks". I've been reading Adam's online work since '97 at boston-online.com and the Wicked Good Conference. Anyone looking to employ Adam's UHub talents should know that he not only has a dedicated readership, but he retains readers and has created a loyal and viable long-lasting online community and social network.

And I know I'm not the only one who's been kicking around long-term; I still see the likes of Ron Newman and eeka, who've been around forever, and other long-termers like Dave and Neal. No independent outlet in Boston has come anywhere close to cultivating and retaining such a consistent and dedicated online readership with vibrant community engagement, and certainly no one has been doing it for 13+ years.

No one in Boston and few people anywhere on the internet have Adam Gaffin's track record in building such an enduring, permanent, sustainable, and flourishing social network and community. The proof is in the pudding.

Adam, thanks for your hard work and your energetic and undying commitment to making this work. Best of luck in whatever comes next!

...to hear the news and will definitely spread the word when you figure out how to turn this into a money making venture.

My condolences, seriously, but when UHub gets even bigger and better, 'cause you're home all the time blogging it up, I'm going to feel really guilty to be enjoying it...

I'm a little late reading today's (well, technically yesterday's) posts, and I am stunned to see this news. Stunned. Adam, I am truly sorry.

Like your other fans here, I don't doubt you'll find a way to make delicious lemonade out of this, but you're surely entitled to take some time to be pissed off, or bummed out, or whatever it is you're feeling. No one wants a decision like this to be thrust upon them, even when a particular someone is smart, capable, ridiculously talented and motivated, not to mention eminently employable. That said, as a few others have noted, I am selfishly kind of excited that you might have even more time to put into UH for a while ... although it's already hard enough for me to keep up with the daily postings, so maybe I should be dreading how much more you'll somehow manage to do here. ;o)

I'll certainly keep an ear to the ground for any work opportunities that might match your talents and interests. I wish you only the best!

-Shelley

It's so great to see Adam's virtual community rally around him. I just want to say, as someone who worked with him for-EVAH and has stayed good friends with him, Adam really is as innovative, generous and witty in person as you get to experience through UH. The ideas he generated to advance his previous employer's Web site were revolutionary/evolutionary. He was also, as other folks can attest to, a completely ego-free mentor, who has given those of us who worked for him tremendous opportunities to flourish. I know whoever snaps him up next will be just as fortunate to have him on their team as we were.