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If you’ve survived layoffs at your company then you’re one of the lucky ones who’ve inherited the workloads of two or three people. If you’re unemployed and received a job offer, then you’re also trying to forget that the salary’s only a fraction of what you used to make. If you’ve recently started a business then you now seriously doubt the mantra, “If you build it, they will come!” Just remember that as you consume a steady diet of these circumstances, the food is entirely organic and high in protein.
Chew Each Bite Six Times
Our economy is in a correction (hopefully). What worries us is that even after the market’s on the mend, giving 200% will have become the new 100%. “She did just fine handling all that workload when times were tough, why should we get her any help? Let’s use this new revenue and go to lunch!” “Doing more with less” isn’t just a favorite saying of business leaders now, the rank-and-file insist, “Them’s fightin’ words!”
To weather these circumstances myself, I made an old saying my theme for this year: “It is what it is!” A friend of mine reminds himself continually that a bad job is still better than no job. Those who disagree haven’t been unemployed for long enough. Optimism aside, everyone’s a little bit bitter.
Use Lots of Ketchup
Maintaining our employment – simply hanging on to a job…any job – through tough times will serve as a real badge of patience and discipline. These trials by fire won’t be lost on potential, higher-paying employers and customers.
The sense of injustice can burn us up or spark commitments to learn better, more rewarding skills. Effective time and project management are a must. Streamlining our work and making communication more to-the-point seem to be a matter of habit now. We’re developing the savvy to automate as many responsibilities as possible. We’ll emerge as lean, mean fighting machines that demeaning, subjugating employers will have no chance of retaining.
Skip the Second Helping
Don’t let your self-esteem hinge on how well (or poorly) the economy treats you. Peg your self-esteem to your potential, which at any given time, is unlimited! We must pursue career development goals. We’ve got to try and identify post-recession trends which will offer the best opportunities and start preparing ourselves for them. Well, that really didn’t taste so bad!
How else can you turn the current circumstances into your own advantage?
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