The Difficult Job Search

The hunt for employment has been a strange kind of learning experience. On many occasions the search frustrates me to the levels suggested in the above cartoon. Thankfully, the daily visits to job search aggregates have small moments of comedy: the payroll job that listed ‘sense of humor’ as a required skill and the accounting position labeled as “One Man Wolf Pack Seeking Other Wolves.” Though this process has also caused me to recognize how important it is to clarify values. While value is a vacuous term, I limited the word to qualify: Activities from previous employment/life that gave me a genuine feeling of achievement and purpose Aspects of my personality that best express who I see myself to be Larger social considerations These are difficult topics that expand and shift over a lifetime but it is the first time that I have consciously made the effort to analyze them. ...