Comments on: Use Job Loss to Start Your Ideal Future http://www.corbettbarr.com/use-job-loss-to-start-your-ideal-future Rewrite the Rules Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:13:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Corbett Barr http://www.corbettbarr.com/use-job-loss-to-start-your-ideal-future#comment-246 Corbett Barr Tue, 19 May 2009 23:40:48 +0000 http://www.freepursuits.com/?p=943#comment-246 Thanks for sharing, Andy. It's great that you're in a situation to not have to rush. Other people aren't quite so lucky. Hopefully this time will give you a great start on your dream. Best of luck! Thanks for sharing, Andy. It’s great that you’re in a situation to not have to rush. Other people aren’t quite so lucky. Hopefully this time will give you a great start on your dream. Best of luck!

]]> By: Andy Shackcloth http://www.corbettbarr.com/use-job-loss-to-start-your-ideal-future#comment-245 Andy Shackcloth Tue, 19 May 2009 12:38:23 +0000 http://www.freepursuits.com/?p=943#comment-245 Oh so true, I have now spent months looking for work and if the agencies fail to depress you then the black hole of companies will push you over the edge. I can not blame them (much) 400 letters for a single position, means 400 x ?? minutes to say "sorry". I know that if my letter is not in the first twenty to be opened then all the work I put into that letter drops in the bin. I might sound bitter but it is not my intention, it is the reality of the here and now. So I spend time on looking for a job, some on improving my writing, some on learning how to market myself, some on what other opportunities are available and some on fixing up the house. Just for the moment I do not "have" to rush at it, life is not comfortable but it is not dire (for the moment), this for me is a low pressure window of opportunity. I now have a different dream, one of working where I hang my hat. I will not realise it this year or maybe next year, but each year I can build on my dream. As I build this dream so the need for a high stress and long hours job diminishes. More hours will be available to build my dream. I would like to write more but I am off to read some more, learn some more build some more. Thanks for the great posts. Oh so true, I have now spent months looking for work and if the agencies fail to depress you then the black hole of companies will push you over the edge.

I can not blame them (much) 400 letters for a single position, means 400 x ?? minutes to say “sorry”. I know that if my letter is not in the first twenty to be opened then all the work I put into that letter drops in the bin.

I might sound bitter but it is not my intention, it is the reality of the here and now.

So I spend time on looking for a job, some on improving my writing, some on learning how to market myself, some on what other opportunities are available and some on fixing up the house.

Just for the moment I do not “have” to rush at it, life is not comfortable but it is not dire (for the moment), this for me is a low pressure window of opportunity.

I now have a different dream, one of working where I hang my hat. I will not realise it this year or maybe next year, but each year I can build on my dream.
As I build this dream so the need for a high stress and long hours job diminishes. More hours will be available to build my dream.

I would like to write more but I am off to read some more, learn some more build some more.

Thanks for the great posts.

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