My Job Search

I have three days left at Home Furniture. The final days are here. I have had three interviews for other employment-one I didn’t get, one I didn’t want, and the last one still holds out hope.

I was in this position last year of having to look for a job. I left a position for a weight loss company because the hours were horrendous and the management didn’t really care about the employees. I took a position with a real estate education company during the summer and spent all summer trying to make a go of it, but promises weren’t kept, the classes didn’t happen and I wasn’t making any money. It was extremely hard on my relationship with my husband and I do not want to go through that again. I am afraid of going through that again.

This time around I have lowered my standards. One of my friends (K) says I shouldn’t but I feel like I need to. I am not searching for my dream job, just something I like well enough to do every day, that makes enough money to keep the bill collectors off of my back.

I bought Book Yourself Solid : The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for GettingBook Yourself Solid : The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling

and was entered into a contest. I won a prize offered by coach Joan Schramm that included her e-course Your Perfect Job - 21 Days to Finding Your Way.

She says the first step is to realize the truth about how I got where I am and that many people hate their jobs.

I know that is true where I work. Some of my co-workers enjoy what they are doing and will probably do it or something similar the rest of their lives. But there are the rest of us who just happened here by happenstance. They took this job while waiting for something better or like me they took it because there was nothing else out there at the time. I felt so much better that day at work quite some time ago when I realized I wasn’t the only one.

The lesson goes on to say that I am not to blame BUT that I have to own my choices. No matter how I got there, I did the best I could with the available resources. I did what was right at the time.

So what does all this mean? It means that you made choices based on the best information you had available at that moment. You did what was right for you at the time. You didn’t do anything wrong to end up where you are now; own the choices, not the blame.

Joan’s last point of the lesson is that I am not stuck forever. Even if my store wasn’t closing it’s doors and forcing me out of a position, I am not stuck. I took this job because it opened up when I was at my wit’s end. I didn’t want to go back into selling furniture, but I knew how to do it, and so I did. I didn’t hate every minute of it, but it is not the job for me. I made a new friend, I worked for one of the best managers around, and I learned from the experience.

I wonder what is in store for me now…

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