There’s Life In the Job Market Yet

Posted on | May 27, 2008 | No Comments

So, I’ve just returned from NYC.  I traveled there for my birthday.  I used the time to take in a show (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), see a few friends and formulate a strategy, or strategies, for moving my business to the next level–recession be damned.

While I was there I had occasion to meet with a friend who offered me a consulting project with her organization and a friend of a friend’s who was struggling with whether to keep his $300k/year job as an ad agency exec to pursue his new passion–helping to develop and sell a new product and working in a more entrepreneurial environment.

I’m always energized by discussions of new business and career possibilities.  My mind and heart usually start to race and I’m gripped by feelings of genuine happiness and support, and a tinge of jealousy.  Even though I’m doing exactly what I set out to do, there’s always some bit of the dream I’m still too scared to pursue, some step I’ve held myself back from taking.

As I listened to my friend talk about her upstart organization and its need for structure, and my friend’s friend’s desire to escape the binds of his well-established organization, I was struck by the fact that regardless of the nature of both these conversations, they were both signs of the same thing–there’s still life in this economy.

My friend’s organization is an upstart nonprofit organization with a fat chunk of change to spend on a good cause, and my friend’s friend’s prospective employer is a funded startup willing to pay him $200k plus equity (My friend’s new gig pays about $90k).

Not too shabby right?

So, while I’m not delivering advice today, I hope I’m offering a bit of hope.  There really are good opportunities out there.  They are just going to take a little more soul searching to identify and a little longer to land.

Happy hunting.  Keep your heads up.

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