Fix Your Job Hunt

(Do you really want a job?)

Job Hunting is Frustrating and Very Stressful. You no longer have the income that you depended on. Bills are piling up and savings going down. Your social standing may be lower with strangers. You miss your old friendly coworkers who greeted and talked with you daily. We depend on social interaction to live.  We want our old life back.

We need to adjust our attitude to get our next job. This is only a trip to our next life. Not insurmountable. A phase to get through. Assume you will get a job. Then job hunting will be less stressful.

That is right, assume you grow through this experience. You will be a better person, more humble and more human after starting a new position. You will help other job hunters because you understand.

We don’t know how long it will take to get another job. We just know you will find one. You may have to move. You may have less stuff. But we, who have been unemployed before, found new work. You will too.

Now you know you will find work. What steps to prepare should you do?

1. Write down a list of your successes at work and in school. Does not matter if anyone else thinks they are a success. You do. Write them out.
2. What compliments did you receive? People have told you what you are good at. Don’t discount small compliments. What you find easy to do are your gifts.
3. What assignments or parts of your jobs did you enjoy? What tasks or skills do you want to do on your new job?

 Your strengths, gifts and experiences will help you excel at your career. Don’t skip this step of understanding yourself. Most people think they can do any job. But you get hired for the job you do well. The more focused you are, the faster you go back to work.

Assume you will succeed, put in effort, cultivate a positive attitude, and you will succeed.

Make Your Comeback

Start Today. Really. Today.

You have had a hard time. Forget that, it has been miserable. Really awful time. Seems like no cared, there was no end to the pain, and criticism went on forever plus a day. Countless times you felt like there would never be an end to the misery. Really sure your life would be like this forever.

I know. Have been there. Not just once. Several times. Taken years to recover from some. Less time for others. Still not recovered from a few. Lost jobs. Someone sort-a stomped on my aorta (more than once). Been a jerk. Been fired. Have days am not proud of, for sure.

While you are suffering in the pits, you feel alone, sad, depressed, frustrated, really frustrated, overwhelmed, and can’t go to sleep. It gets worse, a little better, bad again, too much, catch a little break, and it starts over. Do you know what I mean?

You know what? Am there again. Now. Not sure where to start. Where to go. What to do. What to say. How to even think about it. I’m lost like everyone else going through tough times.

Let’s start. Not kidding. The comeback starts today. Join me.

Be proud of our accomplishments, our good deeds, helping someone and not expecting recognition. We have been a good here and there. There are times you have been great.

We all have something to be grateful for. Health, friends, family, teachers, mentors and just plain nice people are worth being grateful. There is beauty in the world. God is here with us. What can you be grateful for?

The bill you can’t pay right now. The boss you can’t please. Friends who won’t talk to you. Your significant other mad at you. That problem with no answer. Still there. But we don’t have to wallow in our misery. We could, but we don’t have to.

Stand up. Act like you are important. Think well of yourself. You have more talent than you know. How does a healthy & happy person act? Well act like it.

I am applauding your comeback. It took a lot of work, a lot of time, but you got through it. What did you learn? What would you go back and tell yourself?

Start now. You deserve it. Time to get after it. Life demands it.

And bring someone along with us. Success needs to be shared.