Ok folks, So I've been a college grad for 8 odd weeks and I am still unemployed, yet I'm still smiling! Why you may ask? It's simple, I've got nothing tying me down.
Lesson 1: You can only plan so far into the future, lets not confuse life plan with life goals, I will go into this more later.
Lesson 2: Don't sweat the small stuff. Everything happens for a reason, and in the end it all works out!
Lesson 3: With that said.The relationships you have fortified over the years are what will get you through the bad days. At the end of the day knowing you have someone to vent to/a shoulder to cry on and a friend to share things with will get you through anything. What's the point of going through life alone?
Lesson 4: Have faith. This doesn't necessarily have to be religious, have faith in yourself because if you don't believe in yourself who else will? This goes back to the whole staying positive thing.
Life goals. Okay make a list and post it somewhere you will see it all the time! Putting it in a box tucked away will get you nowhere! And don't be hasty with these, shoot for the moon.
At the end of the day its all about being a risk taker, do something you wouldn't imagine doing, and most importantly find something in everyday to make you smile. All right I need to go out and start living, another day another job application...
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Staying Positive
If there is one thing I have come to realize over the past weeks of failed employment, it is this. 2 words, STAY POSITIVE. There are several reasons why this is in your best interest. 1st, in an economy such as this, a smile is a breath of fresh air among all the faces of worry that are polluting our world. 2nd, if you were hostile at every person with a job, you won't ever get hired. 3rd, its just plain healthy for you to remain positive.
Why you may ask should you remain positive when you don't have a job. Although you may have been forced to move back in with your parents which means you may or may not be back in your childhood bed with your teenage mutant ninja turtle sheets, and you may or may not be biking everywhere, not because its healthy but because you are too cheap to shell out the gas money. Well I have one answer for you. You, yes you, will never get this time back.
Sure, you might quit your job once you are married, to raise your children, but that is a job folks. You will never get your "YOU" time back. This is your time, embrace it. For the first and probably last time in your life you get to truly know yourself. So my advice to you, get a hobby, and no becoming a regular at the downtown pub on a tuesday before noon is not the hobby I was thinking about. Get out of the house and do something, maybe that is training for a marathon or picking up art or reading all the books that came out while you were in college that you never got a chance to read, in any event, do something.
Why should you listen to me is your next question? Well although I may be employed I make it my personal goal to live by a rule my high school swim teacher once told me. "The glass isn't half full or half empty, it's overflowing" If you live you make the best out of everyday you can't be mad at yourself. So maybe I just had a good day because it was Day 1 of partial employment aka my internship. possible. But i'll tell you one thing, my new hobby tennis, has got my mind off the fact that life sometimes is too overwhelming.
Stay positive friends, and until next time, another day, another job application.
ps, the law of averages says that if you try something over and over again, at some point it will work, and that goes for your positive attitude and your job prospects!
Why you may ask should you remain positive when you don't have a job. Although you may have been forced to move back in with your parents which means you may or may not be back in your childhood bed with your teenage mutant ninja turtle sheets, and you may or may not be biking everywhere, not because its healthy but because you are too cheap to shell out the gas money. Well I have one answer for you. You, yes you, will never get this time back.
Sure, you might quit your job once you are married, to raise your children, but that is a job folks. You will never get your "YOU" time back. This is your time, embrace it. For the first and probably last time in your life you get to truly know yourself. So my advice to you, get a hobby, and no becoming a regular at the downtown pub on a tuesday before noon is not the hobby I was thinking about. Get out of the house and do something, maybe that is training for a marathon or picking up art or reading all the books that came out while you were in college that you never got a chance to read, in any event, do something.
Why should you listen to me is your next question? Well although I may be employed I make it my personal goal to live by a rule my high school swim teacher once told me. "The glass isn't half full or half empty, it's overflowing" If you live you make the best out of everyday you can't be mad at yourself. So maybe I just had a good day because it was Day 1 of partial employment aka my internship. possible. But i'll tell you one thing, my new hobby tennis, has got my mind off the fact that life sometimes is too overwhelming.
Stay positive friends, and until next time, another day, another job application.
ps, the law of averages says that if you try something over and over again, at some point it will work, and that goes for your positive attitude and your job prospects!
Saturday, August 8, 2009
The Perils of unemployment...
So this summer has been filled with job searching and internship hunting. I was blessed to get an internship last week, however it's unpaid. But I have a good feeling about its potential so I can't complain now can I? This summer has been one adventure after another. I have pretty much traveled the entire state visiting friends and trying to figure out my next step. In addition I've been on some rare job interviews.
Lesson 1: Never trust a commission only job that requires you to sell crap to people, and convince them that they will get fined by the state without it. always a scam.
Lesson 2: standing outside a supermarket and trying to sell make-up is hardly a marketing event.
Lesson 3: ALWAYS trust your gut.
I am very excited to say that I have applied to 4 starbucks' and I intend to apply to more, what better way to find out what I wanna do than to help people feed their caffeine addiction.daily, and the free coffee doesn't hurt either!
Well I need to work on my LSAT homework, because we always need to keep something on the back-burner.
I will leave you with some a thought to think about, when we finally have time to stop and smell the roses, we have no money to buy them. Oh the Catch-22 of unemployment.
Until then, another day, another job application.
Lesson 1: Never trust a commission only job that requires you to sell crap to people, and convince them that they will get fined by the state without it. always a scam.
Lesson 2: standing outside a supermarket and trying to sell make-up is hardly a marketing event.
Lesson 3: ALWAYS trust your gut.
I am very excited to say that I have applied to 4 starbucks' and I intend to apply to more, what better way to find out what I wanna do than to help people feed their caffeine addiction.daily, and the free coffee doesn't hurt either!
Well I need to work on my LSAT homework, because we always need to keep something on the back-burner.
I will leave you with some a thought to think about, when we finally have time to stop and smell the roses, we have no money to buy them. Oh the Catch-22 of unemployment.
Until then, another day, another job application.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Welcome to my Blog
This blog will be primarily about my hopefully successful quest for a job. I am an unemployed member of the class of 2009. Everyday of unemployment is a lesson learned about the world, I wish the lessons were more lucrative, but hey what would be the fun in getting what you planned? This blog is going to serve as a portal into the life of a job seeker. My goal is to entertain you with my shortcomings, in hopes that it will provide comic-relief in a time of economic recession.
So that's just an intro, I will be on here again to keep you all posted, until then, just another day, another job application.
So that's just an intro, I will be on here again to keep you all posted, until then, just another day, another job application.
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