Unemployed for Labor Day
September 7, 2009Stephen Thomas 1 Comment »Here in the US, it’s Labor Day. A holiday celebrating, well, labor. However, not all of us are employed the way we would like, or at all. This morning, in the New York Times, there was an article about how the statistics on the unemployed is not quite accurate since there are many who have given up looking for employment.
Some of these people are the older workers who cannot seem to get a job because of their age. They are in their late fifties or early sixties. They aren’t told that’s the reason; that’s illegal, but they know it’s the reason. Some are just not getting jobs because there are hiring freezes.
Whatever the reason, they have tried to get a job and they have given up. I don’t mean to take away from these people. I have been through the same thing before and I know how helpless you can feel. I know how it feels to want to get a job so badly, to find work, and you do everything you know to do and still nothing turns up. It can strip away your self esteem and pride in a matter of days.
What I do want to say is that these people need to be given hope. They need to understand that they are in a battle of universal proportions and that they have to fight against the depression and the negativity. The more they believe in themselves, the more they hold onto positive thoughts, the better their lives will be. I know! It can be so hard that you just can’t hold up, but you must!
I have been in the position of hiring people. I can tell you that someone who comes in exuding a sense of confidence would get my attention. The one coming in giving me a sense that they feel a victim and that they really didn’t feel that they were going to get the job; probably wouldn’t.
Believe in yourself! Believe that, even though things are tough, it will get better. God, the Infinite, the Universe, whatever you might want to call it exists and wants good for you. The thing is, you cannot receive what you are not willing to or believe in. Celebrate this Labor Day as the last one you will ever spend unemployed. Believe with all your heart that this time next year you will be working a job or have your own business. Know that you deserve a better life. I mean, you really do, don’t you? Do everything you can to improve your life. Get an education, get a haircut, whatever you can do. Little things can be important. The best thing you can do though is to not let yourself be defeated by life. Please, do it for all of us. We are counting on you!
Steve
Tags: belief, God, Infinite, positive attitude, Thoughts, unemployed, Universe
Posted on September 13th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
The unemployment rate never has been that accurate for the reasons you go into in the post.
While unemployment by necessity creates budget problems, it can also open up possibilities, maybe you can get retraining, finish up the degree you never got, etc. Or since you have to be online to be reading this, give Online Marketing a shot, if you do ignore the hype about 24K in 24hrs and other such b.s., if there where ever any magic formula’s, bullets, what have you they where long ago used up.