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Sure doesnt feel like it.Is it easiier get a job when your currently working ?
I'd say yeah. I had a 2 week break for the holidays and was like **** that job. Came back chopped it up with my boss, told him I was thinking about quitting, he talked me out of and reiterated it was easier to get another job when you're employed. Networking for my new job, while on my current job
Trust, me I'm with you on that. But my issue has been action. Simply, turning my wheels and doing things to get the new job.
I talked with my boss again today and this ***** forced me to write an action plan. I wrote about transitioning from the industry I'm in now and into my desired industry. I basically gave him an outline of 3 "areas" in my desired industry, my ideal starting position, and how I would try to get on. He gave me some advice, told me how I should rework it and gave me some life advice too.
So for everybody lookin for a job I'd say write down some goals, and if possible get somebody to keep you accountable. Somebody to make sure you're reaching certain benchmarks. Most importantly, make sure it's someone you trust and are comfortable with.
We get tunnel vision focusing on the gig we want and we turn down opportunites or don't seek opportunites that could lead us to where we want to be. My boss told me about how he had a good gig in the early 2000s, making about 40K, he said he quit and had to end up working at Barnes and Noble. He had to check his ego to take the lesser paying job, but by doing that it led to him meeting somebody that helped into his next gig which ended up netting him 100k.
Now dude is making 6 figures and he took the scenic route, but the point he reiterated to me was he checked his ego and tapped into the connections he had. Sometimes if you put yourself in uncomfortable situations, you wind up learning skills that will help you down the real and come in contact with people that can get you to the next spot. If you're religious, you call it God. Non-religious, like myself, "just the way of the universe."
I was sitting there thinking it hasn't really applied to me, but he pointed out me taking this gig in accounting was me putting myself in an uncomfortable spot, and I didn't eem realize it.
I'll be forward with yall, I'm only 2 yrs out of school, still tyring to find my way and forge my path, but conversing with people older than me has really opened my eyes to how things work and how we can set ourselves up for just a regular gig to survive day to day, or the dream career job.
I hope that got the wheels turning in the minds of anybody reading