Job hunting stinks but I gotta do it. It takes forever to make a resume and you have to make a resume specifically to the job you're applying to. You know you hope and pray that something falls in your lap. That rarely happens. So I've applied to like 2o plus jobs this past year and had a handful of interviews. I learned from my sister-in-law that I just need to network, network, network. When I think about it, yeah that is so true. All the jobs that I have done were from family, friends, and neighbors. So I read this article from monster.com called, "Broaden your Network." It gives you 3 things to ask your contacts: Jobs, People, and Qualifications. Its good, Google it and read it.
This stay at home Dad needs to get a job...well thats if anyone will hire me. Everyone is feeling the effects of this economic recession. Companies are cutting their employees and having the existing employees do more work than before. Not much hiring is being done. Consumers are actually saving their money and putting it in saving accounts or trying to get out of debt. I guess I could be a financial planner....nah, thats not my cup of tea. Or work at Walmart? No way, I don't think retail is my thing. But they give you best deals for stuff. Walmart is one of the few Fortune 500 companies that are going strong at this time. Consumers save money shopping at Walmart. There are many times that I go to Walmart and have a list of things I need and I come back with way more stuff because I think I should buy it because its cheap. I know just because I'm almost an MBA graduate you'd think that I was too good enough for these jobs. I'm almost about to settle for anything that pays good. One of my professors said that money is not a motivator for work, it is a satisfier. I think he meant that once you receive the pay you want you'll be happy, thus satisfied for a while. Then when you start spending more because you have more income you realize that you want or need to make more money. I forget the actual theory that this is called. There is truth in this theory.
I'm reading this book called "Balance Scorecard Step by Step for Government and Nonprofit Agencies" for my final class for my MBA program. Its not half bad, pretty interesting stuff. It kind of covers all lot of the material I learned. Well the business principles and models that are contained in the book make sense to me because of the things I learned from all my business classes.
Well this past couple years staying at home with my kids I learned a ton of stuff. Home management, morning tv schedules, meal planning, patience, and more patience. I sometimes wish I'd be working instead of being at home. I know for sure that my wife is much smarter than I am. She catches on to things quickly, meaning shes a better learner. She has this huge vocabulary and says words I heard once or studied once in my life time. Yeah, its because she reads a lot of books and plays crossword puzzles. Anyways my point being is that she could easily get her MBA or whatever graduate program she wants.
