“No other employment network has touched me personally like the GO! Network has with its great sense of caring and sharing.”

Don was vice president of operations at Maritz Research when his job was eliminated due to the economic crisis. After nine years at Maritz and for the first time in his life, he was unemployed. “It was an emotional WOW,” says Don. “I thought to myself – I have two teenagers in high school, what am I going to do?”

Don came to St. Patrick Center’s GO! Network for basic training on how to pursue a job in the current economy, but what he found was much more. “GO! Network also addressed my personal well being needs and that really hit me in the heart.” Don says he attended several other local employment networks but did not feel the same sense of caring and sharing about the circumstances and plight of the membership.

Don participated in the GO! Network not only as a member, but also as chair of the group’s IT committee and member of the peer advisory committee, which works closely with St. Patrick Center’s Celtic Creative program to manage content and other aspects of the weekly half-day seminars.

And Don has gone back to work! He is now director of sales and operations for a training and development solutions company. He credits St. Patrick Center, the GO! Network and its sponsors for being willing to help people in need from all walks of life.