She Said: Second Chance

"Life may not give us do-over, but it does give us another chance with each new day. It's up to us what we choose to do."

Pointing Towards The Sky

I need air.

This week has been building in a good way up until to today. There has been a good bit of positive energy with the week kicking off with a second round and strong potential. My days have been fairly busy with a lot of productive networking and calls. Today was a bit different because I woke up at my normal time but I had no motivation to grind out another day. I am tired of it all, just tired and I know this is not good only being a month into this. More so, everything seems to be at a point where I am waiting. I suppose there is a point where you can only do so much. I am just hoping everything shakes out next week.

As much as it seems like there is always another company to contact or research, I realize that you can only do so much. I need some air. I need to get back in the sky and work this out. It's been over a month since my last single jump and maybe November since I have done more than one at a time.

Danny

Gotta get me one of these one day.

January Passes Along

Two weeks down and the third is almost in the books for the new year, however, somehow it feels like we are two months into the year. I have managed to get a lot done in a very short period of time so far and the job search is in top gear. I am pursuing many, many things right now but I would be wise to remember the length that previous searches have taken.

The conversations that I have with senior people have all been good and positive, but it's their own perception of the market that I really find interesting. You ask people about the job market and everybody will say things are better and 2010 will quickly turn around. Then asked about their own company and how things are and if there are jobs you will get stories of lay offs and hiring freezes. So my collective knowledge from hundreds of calls and emails flies against their perception. All that I can do is keep moving forward as best I can knowing this could turn around at any moment for me.

I am constantly reminded that no matter situation I am in I have to do more than everybody else. The unemployment rate for black men with college degrees is TWICE that of of white men with comparable levels of education. The disparity in the unemployment gap grows as the level of education increases for black men. This shows that closing the education gap does not close the unemployment gap which is completely counter intuitive. I am not getting on my soapbox about this, it's just a fact. It's a fact that we don't want to talk about in our presumed successful post civil rights, race neutral world. But this is the reality that I am waking up to every morning.

What's For Dinner: Baby Back

Day One

Well that's what is left of Norton all boxed up and moved to an empty office to be shipped off. I will consider this the last look over my shoulder before moving on.

So tomorrow is the first business day of the new year and kicks off my new search. First order of business for me is going to go through everything that I am working on and set some priorities. There are some interesting things before me that could be strong gap fillers or maybe lead towards full time opportunities. It's all different this time around in that the ante for risk vs reward is upped even more and my game is higher stakes. If anything the risk side of the scale could be tipped against me, however, it is way too soon to opine on what might happen. These first few days will be all about getting things in order.

Game plan, check.
Film study, check.
Chin strap, on.