u30pro Is Thankful For…… (#Tweetsgiving 2009)

Here at #u30pro, we didn’t really set out to do anything special. For us, it was a place to bring together all ages to discuss the generations gap and what we could do to overcome it. Over the past few months, we’ve grown a community of smart individuals that challenge us on a daily basis. Your intelligence and dedication to your respected profession is what has made this community – not us. Every success that we have experienced is because of you. So, for Thanksgiving – since everyone will be in a turkey coma come Thursday chat – we wanted to open up a blog post for you to tell us what you are thankful for, both in your professional and personal life. Anything goes. That means there will be no chat this week.

What David is thankful for:
I’m thankful for you. You are my mentors, my friends, my colleagues, my mentees, and my inspiration. You are my community. Without all of you, I would have nothing today.  You support me.  You read my blog and voice your opinion, you keep me thinking. You join our chats and share your time and ideas.  You help me to grow as a person and a professional.  Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

What Laura is thankful for:
I’m thankful for a job that is exciting and makes it fun to go to the office everyday. I’m thankful for an awesome #u30pro community that challenges me and has helped cultivate who I am today. I’m thankful for a supportive family who always believes in me professionally and never says I can’t achieve it. I’m thankful for friends who have always been there for me. I’m thankful for whoever created Post-its, mac and cheese and high heels – you all are awesome.

So what are you thankful for this year?

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This post was created as part of a global groundswell of gratitude called TweetsGiving. The celebration, created by US nonprofit Epic Change, is an experiment in social innovation that seeks to change the world through the power of gratitude. I hope you’ll visit the TweetsGiving site to learn more, and to bring your grateful heart to the party by sharing your gratitude, and giving in honor of that for which you’re most thankful.

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  • laurenfernandez
    Thanks, all for posting what you are thankful for - we truly have a great community and I loved reading all of your comments!

    -L
  • Teresa Basich
    I'm thankful for connecting with you two his year, because you're both amazingly smart, talented and driven people who represent just how awesome Gen Y actually is. Keep on keepin' on because you're incredible role models for your generation and generations to come. Happy Thanksgiving. :)
  • Deanna Ferrari
    Laura - didn't Romy & Michelle create Post-its? :)

    @dferrari
  • laurenfernandez
    Hahaha. Touche.
  • Pat Lamorte
    I'm thankful for my twitter community, especially my #Cubs ones, we experienced every up and down of the 2009 seasons together, rather it be in tweets or haiku's! And to the #u30pro community, I am fairly new to the chat but have learned so much the last few weeks and look forward to everyone's thoughts every week!

    I'm thankful for a secure job where I wear many hats, gathering all different kinds of experiences to hopefully one day grasp one of them and take me up up up in the professional world.

    I'm thankful for my second family. To have your own family together is a blessing on its own but to have another family to share these times with is awesome. I can thank @ashleyann__ for that.

    Speaking of @ashleyann__, I'm thankful for her. I enjoy what I do and I envy how she LOVES what she does. She's making a difference in the lives of children, some under-privileged, teaching them skills they will use the rest of their lives. That said, I'm thankful for teachers everywhere, never have realized how under-appreciated (and under-paid) they are until I knew one personally.

    Oh and I suppose I'm thankful for #MW2, my #iPhone and Dunkin Donut's French Vanilla coffee.
  • GoKTGo
    I am thankful for the incredible #u30pro community >> a group of incredible people who are blessed with gifts of creativity, innovation and the desire to learn (yes, I think that the desire to learn is a gift) & share their talents & insights daily! I am inspired daily by all of you! :D

    I am thankful for my family (obvi) because they are incredibly supportive & just downright fun :D

    I am thankful for Laura letting me be a contributor on her blog - I had never really thought about blogging before, but I love having the opportunity to share on LAF! I am soo thankful for the people who take the time to read/share/comment on my posts! You guys keep me thinking!!

    I am thankful to have a job doing what I love despite this wonky economy! I am able to learn so much every day from the incredible team of people I work with!!

    And lastly, I am thankful for exclamation points, emoticons and the Yankees winning the World Series (sorry @RebeccaDenison & @TomOKeefe1)!!!!!!! :D
  • Mike Billeter
    Like Lauren, I'm thankful for the opportunity to do a job I love every day (including weekends). Living with someone who works at a bank, I find it funny that he never understands why I ENJOY working on a weekend, but, as cheesy (or mac and cheesy...wait, that's too cheesy) as it sounds, it's not work when it's as much fun as it is. Basically, I'm thankful that weekends and vacations don't have to be "an escape" from my job.

    Like David, I'm thankful for the people around me who make it enjoyable. While the industry itself is a competitive one, the fact that people are so willing to help each other anyway just blows my mind on a daily basis. I'm thankful to be in a field where a killer instinct is necessary for success, but killing your competition doesn't have to be the main objective to succeed.

    I'm thankful to have a good network of professionals and friends locally here in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. People don't always think that innovation and South Dakota go hand in hand, but the creative community here is a budding and brilliant group of people that are making big things happen. It's just awesome to know we're doing great work in a community that's on the edge of national recognition (and will get there soon).

    Finally, I'm thankful to be with a company I love working for (Deep Bench) and for having a boss and mentor (Hugh Weber) who has made everything about this career of mine an extremely educational and enjoyable adventure. David is a big advocate of mentors, and I've agreed with his passion for recognizing mentors with every post and guest post he shares on the subject. For those who don't yet have one, I'd recommend trying to find one soon. That's the great thing about the #u30pro chats. They give people a chance to connect with those who will make them better and smarter. Don't miss out on that opportunity. It's something I'm very thankful for.

    Thanks guys, and I hope you have a great Thanksgiving as well. Sorry for the novel of a comment. Guess I'm just really thankful.
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