Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Good Things of Bad Times

Everywhere you turn around you hear nothing but depressing news about the job market and how everyone is suffering. The other day I read in the paper an article that talked about how this is one of the worse times for students to be graduating from college because there are no jobs available. This is actually the worse job situation that we have has since 1983, or so I have read. So what can we do about it?

There are many choices that we can make during this time. We can stay depressed and complain how nothing is going our way, or we can do something about it. One thing I noticed students doing is continuing their education. Since there are no current available jobs now they choose to continue onto their Bachelors degree, Graduate degrees and even Doctorates. They are hoping that by the time they graduate the job market will be much more stable and they can gain back the money that they invested into themselves.

If you can’t find a job, why not make one yourself? Most people are successful not only because they have worked in corporations but because they opened their own business. There is a lot potential if you have a good plan and idea on what it is that you want to do. Beginnings of starting you own business is hard but there is nothing good out there that was easy to accomplish. Sometimes you will have to make some sacrifices, other times you will have to give up everything but if you have a good plan you can trust yourself that everything will work out fine.

The message I am trying to get across here is choose your attitude wisely. Don’t waste your time on negative energy that is not going to get you anywhere anyway. Try only to spend about 10 minutes or so screaming and complaining to get it out of your system, but make sure that’s not all your doing. You attract what you constantly think about so many sure what you are thinking about is really what you want.

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