I was listening to the radio one recent Sunday morning when the hosts were talking about happiness. According to them the word happy is a derivative of words like happenstance and haphazard. When I checked out www.dictionary.com, the definition of happy consisted of terms like delighted, pleased, joy, felicitous, and flavored by fortune.
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Evidently the economy and I are not of the same mind set lately. I was sure that the job market would be picking up quickly after March 1 with many companies starting new quarters and fiscal years. I was wrong. So I am in about the ninth week of my job search and I'm staying relatively peaceful and serene through the process. Here's a quick layout of a day in the life of a job searcher and maybe this will help you with your own search. Fear is running rampant through our society today. More businesses are closing, more people are unemployed, homes are lost and lives are shattered. You can't open the paper or click on a news site without bad news blasting through the headlines. People want security and they want answers. Unfortunately, what we want and what we get are often quite different. When I got into the business of being on a permanent job search, I never even heard of an Elevator Speech. But every networking function I've attended touts this 30 second diatribe as some sort of personal branding that will land you a job on your way up to the 30th floor. Will it? Who knows. Did I create one? You bet. I'm not taking any chances here. I attended a networking lunch yesterday where a career coach spoke to us about career transitioning and change especially in an economy like ours. One of the questions in our workbook was "how do you maintain faith over fear?" That's a really relevant question for me as I move rapidly toward my eighth consecutive week of unemployment...which is, by the way, the last week that I'll receive a paycheck from Circuit City. If there was ever a time for fear to set in, it's now. God rested on the 7th day, ball players have the 7th inning stretch, and I'm taking this week off from job hunting. With unemployment reaching double digits in some states, the odds of finding a job in the near future are slim. But job hunting is a job in and of itself, albeit a poorly paid one. So it's important to take breaks from the daily grind just like you would if you had a paying job. |
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