Gary V. is Bringing Wine Library TV to Midtown (Oh, And There’s Free Food & Wine Involved)
If you are a disciple of wine peddler turned internet media superstar motivator (and all around entertaining guy) Gary Vaynerchuk, you will be incredibly excited to hear this news: Wine Library TV will be broadcasting live from the Roger Smith Hotel Lab Gallery (on Lexington and 47th) all next week at 5pm (August 24-28th.) I’m guessing this is all to promote Gary’s new book “Crush It: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion”, which comes out October 13th.
For those of you who’ve never watched an episode of Wine Library TV online, or aren’t already a convert to Gary’s unique outlook on life, you might be saying “Why should I care about this nonsense?” Well, as a guy who got to quit his job a year ago to get paid to be a fat fuck- let’s just say his new book, and general attitude of motivating people to follow their passion and get paid for it, “speaks to me”. Plus the whole thing benefits Mashable’s “Summer of Social Good”, and he’s willing to give one of you the chance to hang with him, drink some free wine (and score some free food!)
One lucky Midtown Lunch’er will get to hang inside the Roger Smith Hotel Lab Gallery during one of the broadcasts with Gary, which includes free wine (natch.) And then, get treated to free dinner for two after the show at Lily’s, the restaurant inside the Roger Smith Hotel. (Not with Gary though, unless he wants to… who knows? You might make an impression.) All you have to do to enter the contest is tell us in the comments the one thing you’d most want to quit your job to do. (I know you’ve all got something… we work in Midtown for god’s sake.) One winner will be selected randomly, and will get to hang in the Roger Smith Lab one day next week with Gary for a live taping of Wine Library TV, and score a free dinner for two at Lily’s (check out the menu here.)
Basically if you’ve ever wanted to quit your job to do something you love, Gary’s the guy who can motivate you to do it. Don’t want to be on Wine Library TV? Enter anyway. You can still win the free dinner- and I’m sure you’d be able to sell the spot with Gary on Craigslist or Ebay for a ton of cash to one of his super fans (he has legions of them.)
Posted: 10:30 am, August 18th, 2009 under Contest, Gary Vaynerchuk.
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Aaaaaaand commence the 4,275 freeloaders who only comment on ML when something is being given away.
(and I want Bourdain’s job…) -
Culinary school–just for fun. Perhaps when I retire….
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@Goats: Seconded.
Also, w00t for wine.
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Would love a job that would pay me to travel the world, take pictures, and blog about my adventures.
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i want to quit my job to become…. a national park ranger.
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did somebody say free food and wine?!?!?! I want to quit my job to be a restaurateur. That seems interesting and fun, I’ve always wondered how people get into that… Is being born into money a requirement or am I just thinking of Donatella Arpaia? That or Bourdain’s job as tyler said, I basically don’t want to work very hard.
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Travel around the world doing food/cultural photojounalism and articles.
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My dream job is: Rockstar.
Maybe it’s a little overplayed, but I truly would love to be the man on stage making all the fans move.
My guitar playing is better kept within the confines of my apartment, however. Still, it’s okay to dream.
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search for and enter contests for free stuff online all day.
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I would love to quit my job to become…. the owner of a Used Book Store/Cafe/Headshop in the village called Books, Bongs and Bagels.
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I would quit my job to open a bakery to serve all you fine foodists!
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@Apikoros18: I’ll invest in that, and shop there too.
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Open a noodle shop in Southeast Asia.
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I would love to produce music full time.
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I would love to be a successful artist, specifically in painting and sculpture.
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I’ve always wanted to have my own shop too. But I have no head for business.
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My wife’s goal is to world travel and own a bookstore (hadn’t considered the head shop part). I work at a bank which has successfully crushed all hope of ever having a dream again. Instead, I spend my spare time as a photographer and helping a friend realize their dream of having a yoga studio in Astoria.
Shameless plug – http://www.givingtreeyogastudio.com -
Travel, travel, travel. Rest, then travel again.
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Woooooooooooo free shit!
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I can do Anthony Bourdain’s job better than he can, and I’d (hopefully) be easier on the eyes. Either that or writer/artist/food critic.
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I’d quit my job to be a full-time professional sleeper? Like anyone would pay me for that. Yearly salary + benefits to just sleep hours in bed. Small lunch expense account so I can eat Street Meats and Lifetime gym membership. Keep dreaming…
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I actually enjoy my job in Midtown.
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Travel; eat; travel; eat; travel; eat…
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I’d probably quit my job to be a public high school math and science teacher back home in CA, if only the pay wasn’t so shitty and the state bankrupt…
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I want to start my own “zagat” about cheap traveling. Sort of like a midtown lunch for travelers. It would feature airfare (best times to go), hotels, what to see and do, and of course, food.
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I would love to be a hollywood stunt driver/actor. Also motivate others to follow their dreams and passions. Too many people are just “Existing” saying someday I’ll follow my dreams, while others are “Living” and following their dreams every day with a burning desire.
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I love my job: GlamourCoach.
But, I would love to travel more. -
Ski bum by day/wine drinker by night(not a critic per se).
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Tanman, likewise. I’m 6 years into a mortgage and I have a 13mo kid. I can’t quit my job just yet to become a teacher.
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If I could quit my job to become a Travel Photographer and Writer I would be in heaven. I want to just travel the world and see all that it has to offer. But more than that I want to take photos of it all as I go. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hewins/collections/72157600027654107/ I think that would be one of the best jobs I could imagine.
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I like my job most of the time, but I wish that I could afford to quit it and travel the country talking to people about all kinds of policy stuff that is too boring for the TV talking heads — right now the details about health care, but also farm subsidies, import tariffs, unions, the possibilities for small schools and distance learning … there are so many things on which I’d like to have a more informed opinion and then be able to convince people about how we should change our country for the better. Also, hit up state fairs for the best Fried Foods On Sticks.
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I would open my own bakery!
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I’d love to quit my job and be a housewife so I can cook great meals for my family all the time.
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I’d like to take all the skills I learned as a graphic designer and open a learning center for kids on drawing and computer graphics to replace the art programs that are being cut by the board of education. Also I would emphasize how-to classes on cartoons and comics along with graphic novels to create.
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Open my own bakery or restaurant. Or leave everything behind and buy a winery in Napa.
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I’m lucky to have a fun job at the moment, but I’d love to just do one of my two other major passions as my job: dance ballroom competitively or enjoy every minute of NYC and telling everyone else how to as well (www.nycolorislife.com | http://www.nychar.blogspot.com).
Would love to be at the taping and have a nice dinner!
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I want to write a series of Hip & Young guides to places not normally associated with travel by 20-somethings…at least not serious travel. First stop? Napa Valley. Oh, and I’d want to to freelance for Wine Spectator on the side ;)
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I have the best job in the world already ~ Working with Food & Beverage and Social Media/Hospitality @RSHotel A.K.A. The Roger Smith Hotel – the host of Gary’s WLTV NYC Week. I look forward to meeting the winner! We will be offering a tasting flite of all the wines from the show nightly with a Ustream of the show in Lily’s Bar & Restaurant. Please book ahead if you would like to join the fun! http://lilysnyc.com/
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I change my mind, I want to be batman.
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On a more serious note, if I could quit my job and not worry about finances, I’d probably go to school full-time for a Ph.D…hopefully polluting the minds of students one day.
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I’d want to be a TV travel & food host a la Bourdain.
I’d be awesome at it, am much cuter than most hosts out there, and I never get jet lag.
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I think we need some pictorial confirmation from all these who say they are hotter than Bourdain. I am a straight male and I think Bourdain is hot.
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I’d go to Israel or Wine Country in California and make the best Petite Sirah that the world has ever seen.
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I got quitted from my job in finance so I took a job running operations on a well known local farm but I really want to quit that job and farm for myself.
I went to a Vayniac dinner with Gary a few years ago, apart from being a marketing genuis, a visionary, a huge Jets fan (hey we all have a dark side) and a hell of a nice guy he came brandishing a kick ass Château d’Yquem that really bought the Thunder.
Gary knows Bossman as the guy with unique vanity plates and as a dealer to his Thundercat jones, whoever wins the contest tell him I said hi.
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If I was ever offered an opportunity to podcast for a living, I’m dropping the job like it’s hot. Very, very hot.
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If I could quit my day job, I would teach young kids and teens business skills during the days as a “floating teacher” around school in NYC and in the evenings run a basketball clinic for young girls and women as I had it when I was younger.
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Is the Roger Smith hotel hiring? I need a second job. :D
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I do have a dream and a love for Wine Library’s selection and prices. Is that enough?
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I’d move to a tropical island and become a scuba dive master with a combo dive shop/bakery cranking out wicked cupcakes.
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I want to quit my job and join KISS as Gene Simmons replacement.
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Move to Paris and write poetry. And eat croissants every day of my life.
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i’d quit my job to jetset the world, and run a bunch of marathons on different continents
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I would start a piano quintet and call it, “The Chopin Liszt Quintet” and offer to perform at food festivals around the nation for good causes.
…get it… “Chopin Liszt”… shoppin’ list… bueller? bueller?
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I can’t decide between dreaming of opening a food-related business or a creative (fabric design, etc) business. But they’re both dreams of mine.
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I would spend my morning training for a triathalon, my afternoons making foodlebrities (www.foodlebrities.com) and figuring out the logistics of a book deal, and cap off my nights by starting a metal/scream-o/noise bands that covers Disney songs and features avant-saxophone.
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I love the idea of quitting my job!
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i should have plenty of time to do this since i’m only working part time, but i’d love to own a craft studio with glasses, gallery and shop.
or run a little Vietnamese kitchen with my husband.
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I would love to quit my job to spend my days sitting at home, drinking wine, eating chocolates, and scrapbooking!
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I’d like to quit and do food writing full-time (rather than on the side) and focus solely on completing my memoir, which is oh so close but yet so far away. And of course travel more. First up would be the wineries in Tuscany. Anywhere not involving my cube…
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i did quit my job…to go back to school for an MBA! However, I would have preferred to quit my job and go into the beer and wine biz…and some good food thrown in for balance!
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Travel the world and visit as many bakeries as possible…write a book about global desserts.
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I would love to quit my job and visit every continent at least twice!!
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I would quit my job in order to do whatever I feel like on whatever day. I might feel like flying to jamaica, or canada or just sit around and bake cookies all day. I’d eat, drink wine, travel, swim, meet interesting people…basically just live large. I’d probably die of a heart attack because of all the excess, but who cares? It would be worth it.
HUGE Vayniac here! I want to go to the broadcast! -
I would quit my job and travel all over the world. First Asia, then Africa, South America, Europe and then id do it all over again.
God that would be incredibly
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I would love to race cars! Besides being cool, you only have to work 1 day a week, plenty of time for lunch during the rest of the week!!
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I would love to be an animal trainer or a vet.
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The one thing I’d most want to quit my job to do?
Be able to make a decent living at helping others quit their job and find their true passion. Life’s too short to be doing something you don’t love.
Become a writer, run a website or do something in New Media like become an Online Community Manager. Seeing I’m unemployed, I won’t even have to quit my job! :-P