To BE

You have reached the career crisis center.

If you are viewing this blog, then you have reached your wits end and are in search for HOPE. HOPE that you find something, ANYTHING to give you a sense of comfort that YOU are not alone, that you are not the ONLY one that cannot find a job, that you are not the only one in career CRISIS.

A crisis is only CRISIS because you were caught off guard, blindsided. So, how did you get to this point? How did YOU get blindsided? I'm pretty sure by now you've analyzed the situation, over-analyzed it, then analyzed it some more. How did I lose MY job? How did I get laid-off? I went to work on time, stayed late, I did what I was suppose to do, I did great on my yearly evaluations, on and on and on, yada, yada, yada. GREAT. Now we've got that out of the way, what you did not see was the pattern. Think back for a minute. Where there some significant changes going on around you? Upper level management changes, groups re-organizing, products discontinued, you been asked to take on more of a work load, trash only being picked up once a week verses every other day, you manager all of a sudden is going to another group or division, or leave the company all together. These can be some of the patterns, the signs that you have missed. What you failed to realized was that change was happening all around you.

After being on your job for 5 years, 10 years, or 20 even years, you developed a false sense of security. You have failed to realize that today's companies, factories, business are NOT the same as yesterday. They have had to evolve, and consequently you did not evolve with it. Why? One viewpoint is that you took on the job model that your parents displayed. Just like our parents, we had planned to remain at that same job for the next 10, 20 years, maybe even retire, work 40 plus hours a week, 8 to 5, good benefits, 2 weeks vacation per year, you buy car , you buy the house with the fence, get a spouse, have kids, and buy another car...ohh the American Dream, literally a DREAM. Nothing prepared you for THAT day, the day the announcement is made, your job has been terminated. Now that DREAM, looks more like a nightmare, the Freddy Kruger kind.

So here we are, living a nightmare, not the dream sort of speak. You want to hear something totally off the wall, you being laid off, terminated, was the best thing that EVER happened to you. I've been there. There is an overwhelming sense pressure being released. The feeling of no longer being trapped. WHY? Why do we feel this way. Maybe because we have yet to define what is meant to BE.

Webster defines BE as:

1 - a : to equal in meaning : have the same connotation as ; b : to have identity with ; c : to constitute the same class as ; d : to have a specified qualification or characterization ; e : to belong to the class of

2 - a : to have an objective existence : have reality or actuality : to live  

In  order to BE, we must find meaning, we must self-identify, we must define our character, we must exist in reality in order to live. This the first step towards turn on you power.  Learn how to BE. You will need a new set of power tools ( and I'm not talking about the Lowes or Home Depot kind). You need to recondition the way you think about business, about your job, about your finances, and about your career. This is a mental boot camp. You must be realigned and redirected because you have been bumped of course.