Tonights Life Lesson focuses on trying to get a job. I have discovered that there are many important aspects throughout the process that are crucial to scoring the job that you are after. I will admit that I'm not an expert on this topic by any means, but hopefully some of the things I dive into will help you pursue the American Dream at some point in your life. I'll get to all of that in a moment, but first, I want to talk about where I believe we are at as a society in whole as it relates to this subject.
I grew up with the preconceived notion that after I finished school and became a big boy, I would go work for somebody for 30 years and then retire on a gold mine and spend the rest of my days counting said gold mine. My reasoning for this was because that's what my grandparents did, that's what other people's grandparents did, and that's what I thought would happen. To an extent, I was correct. My grandparents and other grandparents out there were part of "The Greatest Generation" that grew up eating mustard sandwiches and wearing potato sacks for clothes through the Great Depression, fought the Nazi bastards in WWII (fun fact: my grandpa was stationed with Elvis Presley and became a ping pong/pool God amongst men), boomed lots of babies, and went on to work for a factory for 30 years, got a nice gold watch, retired, and counted gold coins. The Greatest Generation spawned the Baby Boomers that in turn spawned Generation Y.
Fast forward to my sophomore year at UD, I found myself sitting in my first Entrepreneurship course and listing to my professor lecture about how the "average" ENT graduate would have approximately 15-20 jobs before settling down and starting their own business. That pretty much shot my whole perception of working for one place my whole life right out the window. The explanation for this piece of data (day-ta) was that the average entrepreneur would constantly be challenged taking orders from someone, have a desire to mix things up after awhile and seek out new opportunities, or just get bored with where they were at after a few years. So gone are the days of working somewhere for 30 years and retiring. I'm sure it is still possible, but highly unlikely. For instance, in the past 10 years, I have had 7 different jobs. These range from bagging groceries to climbing the Corporate America ladder for the last 3 years.
So, back to the actual lesson and getting a job. It is a painful process. The economy sucks. Dayton, Ohio sucks. Despite all of those things, there are a couple of things I believe could help you increase your chances of getting a job. And here we go.
Source:
http://www.thecowshow.com/2012/08/life-lessons-with-deputy-cow-3.html