Job Change/Prison Break
Getting ready for a job search is exciting. You are thinking about "getting out" of the environment you are in. Maybe you have been thinking about it for a while, maybe just a short time; but you have been thinking and thinking and thinking. Well STOP thinking and start planning your escape.
Have you ever seen the movie Escape From Alcatraz? What a great movie to use as an example for the way you quit your job. It has all the elements: The observations, the planning , the enlisting people you trust into your plan, the digging out slowly, the staying up when no one else is to work, the day after day consistent work on digging through a wall to make a tunnel just wide enough to squeeze through, the patience to wait for the right situation in order to attempt the escape, the feelings of tension while you are making the break, the handling of things when they go wrong and the eventual complete exit from the prison to new challenges of staying hidden, and outsmarting those that want to bring you back and your eventual making of a new life for yourself in a new world. It is a physically and emotionally a great challenge
All the same activities one has to endure in order to "break out" of Alcatraz can be used to "break out" of a job environment. The underlying principles are persistence when the going gets tough and patience in order to not rush out in desperation. Finding the right job is tough but can be done. You will have people who don't think you can do it or think you are crazy. You may have a smaller group of people who will cheer you on. Whether you have cheerleaders or pessimists in your corner, it should not matter. You just keep going forward with your activities even when they seem fruitless.
Eventually you will refine your efforts and be in the right time at the right place and the stars will be aligned and you will find an opportunity that will present itself as a "perfect fit" for you. You may get hired; you may not. If you do get it, congratulations. If not, ALWAYS remember if there was one that means there is always another one right around the corner. Don't stop doing what you did to find the first one.
Life is not how you handle the easy things. It is about how you handle the tough stuff. The tough stuff is where character is built or destroyed. You decide to build or break down.
I had a great expresso machiato this morning. Now this expresso drink is not the sugary one from Starbucks that pretends to be a coffee drink. It is a double shot of expresso (1/2 decaf for me unfortunately) with as much foam/froth milk I can get on top. I swirl it a little to make the edges of the froth to turn light brown from the expresso below and WOW what a great drink. I could sip this all stinkin day.
Let's Get Started!
Jeff
Have you ever seen the movie Escape From Alcatraz? What a great movie to use as an example for the way you quit your job. It has all the elements: The observations, the planning , the enlisting people you trust into your plan, the digging out slowly, the staying up when no one else is to work, the day after day consistent work on digging through a wall to make a tunnel just wide enough to squeeze through, the patience to wait for the right situation in order to attempt the escape, the feelings of tension while you are making the break, the handling of things when they go wrong and the eventual complete exit from the prison to new challenges of staying hidden, and outsmarting those that want to bring you back and your eventual making of a new life for yourself in a new world. It is a physically and emotionally a great challenge
All the same activities one has to endure in order to "break out" of Alcatraz can be used to "break out" of a job environment. The underlying principles are persistence when the going gets tough and patience in order to not rush out in desperation. Finding the right job is tough but can be done. You will have people who don't think you can do it or think you are crazy. You may have a smaller group of people who will cheer you on. Whether you have cheerleaders or pessimists in your corner, it should not matter. You just keep going forward with your activities even when they seem fruitless.
Eventually you will refine your efforts and be in the right time at the right place and the stars will be aligned and you will find an opportunity that will present itself as a "perfect fit" for you. You may get hired; you may not. If you do get it, congratulations. If not, ALWAYS remember if there was one that means there is always another one right around the corner. Don't stop doing what you did to find the first one.
Life is not how you handle the easy things. It is about how you handle the tough stuff. The tough stuff is where character is built or destroyed. You decide to build or break down.
I had a great expresso machiato this morning. Now this expresso drink is not the sugary one from Starbucks that pretends to be a coffee drink. It is a double shot of expresso (1/2 decaf for me unfortunately) with as much foam/froth milk I can get on top. I swirl it a little to make the edges of the froth to turn light brown from the expresso below and WOW what a great drink. I could sip this all stinkin day.
Let's Get Started!
Jeff
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