Are You Genetically Unemployable?
Posted by adminDec 11
I’m an entrepreneur, and it took almost 35 years to come to the conclusion. But more than that, there was a process of getting past the guilt of not being able to keep a job. Each job was great, at first! It was everything I had been looking for and then 3 to 6 months later I hated it! And I don’t just mean, a little – I HATED IT!!
So I would quit and start a business, oh what a relief! Freedom, I could get up when I wanted and work as much or as little. And then of course that mindset didn’t make for a very successful business, so I would work 60+ hours a week. Then that lead me to wondering why I was giving up my life for work and I’d go out and get another J-O-B (pronounced jay-oh-bee). Then the cycle continued until I got in to my 30’s.
Does any of this sound familiar yet?
It wasn’t until I started becoming aware of how I looked at a career that I started to understand that I was the problem. And that, my friend, was the day everything started to change and what a ride it has been. Now I do have the freedom and the money to play, all thanks to entrepreneurship!
Now I want to dedicate the rest of my life to educating others on how to make the transition successfully in to being an entrepreneur, and creating successful Internet based businesses through my company SEO Strategy Group, llc. I have spent over 8 years working with Search Engine Optimization and Marketing, so I have developed a company that will take you step-by-step training through becoming successful on the Search Engines.
What are your thoughts and experiences with being genetically unempoyable? Leave me a comment below -
Emily
2 comments
Comment by Brendan Norris on January 21, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Hi Emily,
I just had a horrible day at my J-O-B today. Once I got home and was explaining how the day went to my wife, I realized that I wasn’t blaming my boss for helping to make me feel like crap, I was just like “something is wrong with me, I don’t blame him for being upset…I am not sure that I would hire me to do this work…” In the past, I have experienced bad days at work and have had no problem placing blame on someone else for why the experience was less than what I wanted that day. Today, I suppose I had a breakthrough of sorts in realizing that its just me…no “job” is ever going to make me happy and I need to control my day, my time, my life. Somehow. Lacking that, I don’t think I will ever be happy or be able to make other people happy either. Sorry this is so long already…so much to say and don’t know where to start. I am 36 years old and have a college degree in International Relations. After working for the State Dept for 4 years I went to private sector and did essentially the same administrative type of work that I had always done. 4 more years spent doing that, total of 8 years spent unsatisfied in a cubicle. I met the woman of my dreams who convinced me to leave my cubicle and sell vacation properties in Mexico with the company she worked for. Spent 4 years doing that until the real estate market plummeted and we left the Arizona office we were then in charge of, and moved back to her hometown in Northern CA. Problem is, its a tiny town and my resume is useless here. So I took this construction J-O-B to pay the bills while we try to figure out what to do. I have apprenticed myself to a stonemason. Basically, I thank god and simultaneously curse in the same breath, that my 6′3″ Irish frame can handle lifting heavy rocks all day long. As my brain atrophies with this day-in day-out exhaustive physical routine, I wonder…will I get used to this? When will I just accept my lot and stop mentally agonizing over the apparent loss of freedom and complete subjugation of my dreams for a future filled with international travel, buying nice things for my wife, having time to just relax, etc. As I try to identify what skills I possess, per your formula, I realize that I can string words together into coherent sentences…that’s about it. I don’t have a great proficiency with computers other than basic stuff. I would love to start a business of *any* kind…but I don’t have a clue where to start. Sorry again for the long note, I just enjoyed reading your page here and thought you might be able to provide some clues/suggestions for someone desperately seeking a better, more enjoyable path through life. Thanks for reading all this!
Brendan
Comment by admin on February 15, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Hey Brendan,
Thanks for your note … you are exactly the type of individual I am writing this for. I’ve been there, and it is the ‘letting go and believing in yourself’ that is the hardest.
You stated your skill of ‘putting words together in coherent sentences’ as too little of a skill to do anything with. That isn’t true!! There are tons of us looking for copywriters for website content. Check out a site called oDesk.com, and look at how many projects there are for freelance copywriting, do any of them look like something you can do?
Or find a product on clickbank.com and create a blog site to sell the products. There are a ton of tutorials to set up a blog, you can write copy. There is still more to learn, but it’s all about taking the next step!!