RiSe & sHiNe…nOt RiSe & wHiNe

So…for many weeks (more like months) I have been candidly “whining” about my daily frustrations at work and monotony of life in general. My parents always taught us growing up it is much easier to feel sorry for yourself than attempt to do something about it. Self-Pity is tempting…self-indulging…makes you doubt your own potential to make better…makes you lose faith in yourself. I see self-pity and lack of faith as analogous. It’s easier to blame the society, the world, incidents, accidents, and other people for mishaps than stepping up to take responsibility. And I’m not someone who shies away from responsibility. I remember when I used to take pride in responsibility…it helped define not only the person I was but a person I could be. Yet I lost part of that sensation over the last couple of years because I stopped thinking about dreams and tasks and people and goals which mattered to me and were dearest to me. For instance, I woke up every day to a job I knew I didn’t have my heart into…it wasn’t what I intended to set out to do more than a decade ago when I graduated from College. I knew I had to go back to doing Market Research – one thing I was passionate for as long as I remember! Recently a dear friend asked me to define the term “Market Research” to him…so I set out to explain what it entailed in most basic terms…in the world of B2B (business-to-business), consumer and media research. It was funny because he interrupted me half way to say oh that’s market research?…I always wondered who signed up for such boring stuff… gee I love boring stuff…well I guess that’s when you know something is a passion…when no one else sees it but you! So for a couple of years after College, I managed to make it in the world of Market Research until the late 90s/early 2000s when the economy was hard hit by the dot com bust. Businesses crumbled and unfortunately market research took a back seat. One can’t stick it out without a paycheck for a long time so I jumped at the first opportunity which knocked at my door…where I work now. Four years later, I came to the realization I needed Market Research back in my life…I’m thankful of the awakening…I’ve heard many people spend years searching for their forte and here I had found mine! Right then I knew finding my dream job was going to be a challenging task…to head back into a field I had stayed away from for many years. I had to network hard, research the industry thoroughly, find out who’s who in Market Research, and most importantly, create the right resume…after all YOU are YOUR RESUME!!! I can’t emphasize it enough…for those of you who find yourselves in my shoes…PLEASE focus hard on your resume!!! You won’t believe everything on my to-do list was easy once I took the time out of my day to actually do it…except for writing that darn resume…boy it was the toughest task of all…I now believe all those articles I read which rated the overwhelming task of “writing your resume” as the number one reason people choose to stay in unhappy jobs…I almost decided to just stay the hell where I was fearing the amount of intelligent brainstorming I had to do to write my resume. But…two nights, four-hour sleeps and five cups of tea later, I completed my resume!!! I was now going to rise and shine, not rise and whine!!! Coming up next: my journey into the world of job search...

to be continued…

signed: Thinker-Bell