Staying career-fit for life

In the PD today this article said, "When you are green, you're growing, and when you're ripe, you're rotten." So true, so true.

My lesson: always keep your resume well-groomed.

My neighbor Karm told me sound advice: It is a part-time job looking for a job.

I know we all hate doing our resumes but I learned that if I psyche myself out and pretend that it is the most fun ever, I will start feelin' the goodness. I say to myself, "it's ALL about me- the 14 font bold name on the top, my address, my skills, the bullet points in a pretty line all the way down the page. I feel my soul in black and white. And after many DO OVERS for many different companies and jobs it becomes second nature. For five months when I didn't have a job, I would get out of bed, put the daughter in school, get dressed in a white button down and khaki's and make a game plan: 1.) Get applications 2.) fill them out and 3.) send them back. And at the end of the day I would be proud of myself for trying and for not being sucked into the capivating couch.

SO many times I would grab an application and think I really wouldn't want to work here. But the point wasn't personal happiness- it was to get money and you can't get money if you aren't working. Many times I would copy the application and send it in again the following week so it would "stay on top of the pile." I would like to believe that was the case, but they probably thought I was that crazy girl who wanted to work with them. Oh no, here she comes again- look busy. I was just trying to be a familiar face.

So my luck came one day when I got a call from a friend who I used to work with years before. He said, "there is an opening, you should apply." I did, and after a few weeks of applying and interviewing I got the job!

That's another lesson, keep in touch or at least tolerate of people from your past because you NEVER know what the future holds.