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!