When Cool People Announce They Are In A Job Search

When Cool People Announce They Are In A Job Search A number of weeks ago a very successful businessman that Ive networked with signed up for JibberJobber. Because of our friendship/relationship I e-mailed him right away, something along the lines of wow, its cool that you are checking out my website and poking around! Let me know what you think. His immediate reply was please dont tell anyone Im in the job search. Can I just tell you, I nearly fell out of my seat? Here is a guy that, from where Im sitting, is a business giant. In fact, one of the most successful people that I know. The shock of someone like him in a job search just really threw me. Eventually we had some conversations so I could understand better what was going on, and try and figure out what role I could play in helping him. This whole experience made me think back to my layoff last year. Why did I get laid off? I must have been a loser. Why couldnt I get a job? I must have been a loser. Why couldnt I get any interviews? I must have been a loser with leprosy. Even though I had done all the right things, in a traditional sense, to build my own job security, I was still, well, a loser. Actually, those were all the stereotypical feelings that I had. But I think too many people feel the way I used to. I wondered how many people are wondering what in the heck went wrong with him?? It made me think about reasons why you might lose (or leave) or your job: You cant do the work, or you are a slacker, or you dont understand office politics, or something like that. It all comes down to Because you suck, right? Wrong. Here is why this guy is leaving: because he wants to follow his passion. The last 24 months at the job that laid me off were pretty much hell. It affected my marriage, my relationship with my kids, and my morale. I should have left a lot earlier. But I didnt I was hanging on to a false hope. I sometimes felt like the abuse victim that had this twisted hope that things would get better, things would change, everything would be alright. But it didnt happen that way. I wish I would have known this guy a few years ago, and learned the lesson from him that its okay to leave what looks like an awesome job when the passion just isnt there anymore. Are you passionate about what you do? If its time for a change, are you scared about what others will think? When Cool People Announce They Are In A Job Search A number of weeks ago a very successful businessman that Ive networked with signed up for JibberJobber. Because of our friendship/relationship I e-mailed him right away, something along the lines of wow, its cool that you are checking out my website and poking around! Let me know what you think. His immediate reply was please dont tell anyone Im in the job search. Can I just tell you, I nearly fell out of my seat? Here is a guy that, from where Im sitting, is a business giant. In fact, one of the most successful people that I know. The shock of someone like him in a job search just really threw me. Eventually we had some conversations so I could understand better what was going on, and try and figure out what role I could play in helping him. This whole experience made me think back to my layoff last year. Why did I get laid off? I must have been a loser. Why couldnt I get a job? I must have been a loser. Why couldnt I get any interviews? I must have been a loser with leprosy. Even though I had done all the right things, in a traditional sense, to build my own job security, I was still, well, a loser. Actually, those were all the stereotypical feelings that I had. But I think too many people feel the way I used to. I wondered how many people are wondering what in the heck went wrong with him?? It made me think about reasons why you might lose (or leave) or your job: You cant do the work, or you are a slacker, or you dont understand office politics, or something like that. It all comes down to Because you suck, right? Wrong. Here is why this guy is leaving: because he wants to follow his passion. The last 24 months at the job that laid me off were pretty much hell. It affected my marriage, my relationship with my kids, and my morale. I should have left a lot earlier. But I didnt I was hanging on to a false hope. I sometimes felt like the abuse victim that had this twisted hope that things would get better, things would change, everything would be alright. But it didnt happen that way. I wish I would have known this guy a few years ago, and learned the lesson from him that its okay to leave what looks like an awesome job when the passion just isnt there anymore. Are you passionate about what you do? If its time for a change, are you scared about what others will think? When Cool People Announce They Are In A Job Search A number of weeks ago a very successful businessman that Ive networked with signed up for JibberJobber. Because of our friendship/relationship I e-mailed him right away, something along the lines of wow, its cool that you are checking out my website and poking around! Let me know what you think. His immediate reply was please dont tell anyone Im in the job search. Can I just tell you, I nearly fell out of my seat? Here is a guy that, from where Im sitting, is a business giant. In fact, one of the most successful people that I know. The shock of someone like him in a job search just really threw me. Eventually we had some conversations so I could understand better what was going on, and try and figure out what role I could play in helping him. This whole experience made me think back to my layoff last year. Why did I get laid off? I must have been a loser. Why couldnt I get a job? I must have been a loser. Why couldnt I get any interviews? I must have been a loser with leprosy. Even though I had done all the right things, in a traditional sense, to build my own job security, I was still, well, a loser. Actually, those were all the stereotypical feelings that I had. But I think too many people feel the way I used to. I wondered how many people are wondering what in the heck went wrong with him?? It made me think about reasons why you might lose (or leave) or your job: You cant do the work, or you are a slacker, or you dont understand office politics, or something like that. It all comes down to Because you suck, right? Wrong. Here is why this guy is leaving: because he wants to follow his passion. The last 24 months at the job that laid me off were pretty much hell. It affected my marriage, my relationship with my kids, and my morale. I should have left a lot earlier. But I didnt I was hanging on to a false hope. I sometimes felt like the abuse victim that had this twisted hope that things would get better, things would change, everything would be alright. But it didnt happen that way. I wish I would have known this guy a few years ago, and learned the lesson from him that its okay to leave what looks like an awesome job when the passion just isnt there anymore. Are you passionate about what you do? If its time for a change, are you scared about what others will think?