26 July 2009
Dust Yourself Off
July, 31, 2009 05:23 PM
My apologies for a gap between posts, but a series of events have occurred that are personal and time-consuming. Obviously, I ask for your respect, but I will say that a close family friend suddenly passed; never an easy moment. As for the other stuff, we’ll just leave it be.
I will say that my job search continues, despite interviewing at several prominent agencies and companies in the Boston-metro area. In the interim, I have been working with my father for some stop-gap income. It is quite grueling and hard labor oriented, but I need money coming in, so here I am.
I keep going in circles as to why I am not finding a proper job in the career field I have followed for years now. I have experience, but not decades. I have creativity, but don’t know every suite. I have enthusiasm, but will it evaporate? (short answer: no)
Ok, ok, where am I going with all of this? Well, I am frustrated, but I am developing new networking techniques, polishing up my resume, making more improvements to my website, and I even created a new cover letter that has been getting a lot of attention. On a recent interview, I was told that my hard work in getting in touch with them was well noted and that I had earned the opportunity to interview there.
My point is that you can’t give up. Even when you fail in a fantastic manner, you must drudge on. I have seen the lowest of the lows this summer, because I’ve always equated my worth to my job. With an absence of said career, the no-job-blues kick in...hard. But I can assure you, I have found so much wisdom from this search. I have learned about tenacity, quality and preparedness. I have learned the merits of a hard day’s wage. I have learned that I have a long career ahead of me, and I must work towards my goals.
Perhaps this all sounds pretty cliched. After all, everyone knows you have to work your butt off to get a job, especially in this market and in this economy. But what do you do after you’ve joined Facebook, Twitter, Monster, CareerBuilder, Indeed, HotJobs and not found your job? What do you do when you start your own website, track results and constantly write, even when you don’t want to? What do you when the job you so clearly want is rewarded to a person that you believe has no real talent?
I will say that my job search continues, despite interviewing at several prominent agencies and companies in the Boston-metro area. In the interim, I have been working with my father for some stop-gap income. It is quite grueling and hard labor oriented, but I need money coming in, so here I am.
I keep going in circles as to why I am not finding a proper job in the career field I have followed for years now. I have experience, but not decades. I have creativity, but don’t know every suite. I have enthusiasm, but will it evaporate? (short answer: no)
Ok, ok, where am I going with all of this? Well, I am frustrated, but I am developing new networking techniques, polishing up my resume, making more improvements to my website, and I even created a new cover letter that has been getting a lot of attention. On a recent interview, I was told that my hard work in getting in touch with them was well noted and that I had earned the opportunity to interview there.
My point is that you can’t give up. Even when you fail in a fantastic manner, you must drudge on. I have seen the lowest of the lows this summer, because I’ve always equated my worth to my job. With an absence of said career, the no-job-blues kick in...hard. But I can assure you, I have found so much wisdom from this search. I have learned about tenacity, quality and preparedness. I have learned the merits of a hard day’s wage. I have learned that I have a long career ahead of me, and I must work towards my goals.
Perhaps this all sounds pretty cliched. After all, everyone knows you have to work your butt off to get a job, especially in this market and in this economy. But what do you do after you’ve joined Facebook, Twitter, Monster, CareerBuilder, Indeed, HotJobs and not found your job? What do you do when you start your own website, track results and constantly write, even when you don’t want to? What do you when the job you so clearly want is rewarded to a person that you believe has no real talent?
You dust yourself and start planning the next move.
I can’t explain where my drive comes from, but I do know that one day it will reward me. Having such blind faith in myself can be wonderfully deceiving, but more importantly, it gets me through the day. Now excuse, I’m off to profile more companies and try, once again, to find the job I love in the field of public relations.
Oh, and if you still want to know what PR is and why I love it, I suggest you click this link that Gear Communications put on their Facebook page, it cracked me up:
Where do you draw inspiration from? How do you think I should be adjusting my job search? Do you think the market is picking up? Let me know by clicking leave a comment below.