Just Work Mondays

Here is a suggestion....if you are out of work and job searching, just do it for 12 hours on Monday and react the rest of the week. Then when you get to Friday, plan the work you are going to do on the following Monday. With this strategy you can minimize the frustration with finding work.

How does this type of schedule minimize the frustration you ask? It does in two ways. The first is by limiting the amount of time you do cold work. Cold work is some of the most effective activity you can do to uncover job opportunities. This may mean cold calling companies you want to work for or cold calling people in your network to inform them you are looking for a new job opportunity. This cold work is the work we fret over when searching for opportunities. The reason we fret over it is because we think every day we are not doing it but we SHOULD be, over time this ping-pong mentality will defeat all our purposes.

I know this sounds a little weird but why not give it a try. Do all the cold work you have been putting off every time you sit and start job searching. Do it all on Monday. Once your 12 hours shift is over, you can be relieved to not have to do it again for another six days. The rest of the week, do the normal activities you have been doing like working on your resume, visiting job boards and company websites, reading books on job searching, etc. Or better yet, don't do anything else and wait to see what happens with your Monday work.

Try it for a couple of weeks and see what happens. Only do the cold work on Mondays.

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Jeff