01.04.10

Check it out, it’s a New Year and let’s hope that all the crap from last year will be behind us. The New Year has always meant to me a new beginning. I’m usually disappointed, but that doesn’t stop me from hoping. It’s a New Year and the biggest thing on my list is to find a long term job or career if you prefer. I want to feel useful again. I want to help people, I do enjoy service. I’m getting older and it’s harder to find work. I can no longer stand for long periods like I use-to; my feet go numb, so I’m looking for but work, and at my age that isn’t easy. I’m an outstanding first contact person, but I’m old, fat and employers want young and pleasant to look at. I have a lovely phone voice, and outstanding manners. My parents owned their own business and we kids were taught well how to answer a phone; if we wanted to live. Yet I am hopeful, somebody will see my worth and scoop me up.

The other thing I’m going to do this year is drop the dead weight of my pretend friends. If they don’t make me feel good about being alive I’m going to let them go. Friends should add something positive to your life, not drag you down and never ever enjoy your pain; and yes I have allowed people like this in my life. I don’t know why, I didn’t want anything from them; I just accepted the crap they dished out and crawled back for more. Well this year I intend to have a little more self worth and keep the friends that make me happy and say good bye to those who don’t.

It’s a New Year and time to clean my house or temple if you prefer. I know none of it will be easy; the work done to reach to my goal will be worth the effort. I’ll have a job/career and true friends that will help me be a better person or citizen of the planet if you prefer. I pray this year will be a winner filled with a good job and close good friends. I pray that I learn how to be a good friend and a worthwhile employee.

We will see how it goes, this is only day four of the New Year and so far so good. I’m off my back and cutting myself some slack. I haven’t found a job to apply for yet, but it’s still early and business haven’t sorted out there holiday haul yet. They will need to crunch some numbers to see if they can afford to add help. I hope it was a good year for them and they will pass their good fortune down to us; the unemployed. Yea I know what I just implied, the dreaded “voodoo economic plan” of the Regan years. We know it doesn’t work, it didn’t work then and I’m quite sure it won’t work now but maybe greed will.

During the holidays businesses hire more people to help you spend your money and it works, now we need them to remember that and keep an adequate staff that will help you spend your money. I was at Target and they were talking about their sales goals, they were close so they didn’t cut hours for that week, and it was a blessing because they were doing inventory. What businesses fail to realize if you only keep a skeleton crew you lose business; nobody likes being ignored while they are shopping and in need of an item, shoppers just get frustrated and leave, they don’t have the time anymore; we’ve all seen the abandoned carts and understand why they were abandoned.

Let’s hope we get our economy moving and it will turn into an employee market. That works better for most of us, this employer market sucks. Well the year is young and lets all pray things turn around.