FORTY PLUS EDITORIAL OCTOBER 26, 2005

The Importance of Energy in your Job Search.

Of all the things a job seeker needs, it is hard to think of a single attribute more important than...Energy. Energy helps you run past, around and over obstacles. Energy picks you up after a setback. Energy is what Broadway famously thrives on:

There's no people like show people
They smile when they are low
Even with a turkey that you know will fold
You may be stranded out in the cold
The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops
Still you wouldn't trade it for a sack o' gold
Let's go on with the show!

So, despite wanting ever so badly to be back on a payroll and rolling in dough (to continue the Broadway vernacular), we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off...and do it all over again.

Which takes Energy. Lots of energy.

This is one reason makeover specialists stress Feeling Good.
About Yourself. About your Prospects. About your Future. And make no mistake, it ain’t gonna get no easier, People, ever. Not in our lifetimes.

If we read the Tea Leaves of Prognostication from our esteemed Economists properly, we (Americans) are in for a bumpy ride in the years ahead.

We say let the Other Guy fall by the wayside; tire and falter, give up and go sit it out.

That’s not the Forty Plus Way. For us, it’s up in the morning and off to the Races. When we look back, it’s to remember the Good Times. We learn to learn from our Experience.

And when we Look Forward, we are envisioning Better Times.

Always remember: Our Age and our Experience are the biggest Pluses we’ve got going for ourselves. You cannot buy Experience; you can only earn it through the years, over time, on the job.

Some of us come into Forty Plus and "trampoline" right out again, with an updated portfolio and a crisp, new definition of Who You Are.

Others arrive and land in our Safety Net...in need of support and recalibrating their career goals.

The big differentiator at Forty Plus is the collegial enviroment, the no-fault attitude (these days, anyone can get fired at any time). Meanwhile, it’s up to each of us to keep our Energy Level up. Shed the deflators and learn to avoid the nay-sayers.

The next job is just a phone call away.

Richard Calderhead    FortyPlusNy/October 26, 2005

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