Month
January 2011
Investing in Yourself
After the holiday break, I was not surprised to start 2011 with a full inbox, but what has been startling is the number of emails I have received from people over 50 who have been laid off and can't find work.
For months, in some cases years, these people have carried on discouraging job-search campaigns directed toward securing the kind of work they did before "the bottom fell out" of their professional lives.
They have reached the point where they feel they "can't buy a job" and are at their wits end as to what to do next.
At first I wondered, what do I say to these people? But then I noticed that none of them mentioned doing anything to create something new.
“What worked in the past isn’t working now, but it takes people quite a while to figure that out. In the meantime they keep doing what was handed down to them, even though it's ineffective and at times dangerous.” (p. 14)
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