Read this article by Seth Godin and decided to post it plus add my opinion at the end.

DON’T TRY TO GET A JOB

Don’t you dare.

There are a few reasons for this. The first is that the act of trying to get a job corrupts you. It pushes you to be average, to fit in and to do what you’re told.

The second is that this act moves the responsibility from you to that guy who didn’t hire you. It’s his fault. As soon as you start spending your day trying to please the guy, you’ve blown it.

The third is that the economy is terrible and the best jobs you’re going to get are lousy.

So, what should you do?

Today, right now, while the opportunity costs (look it up on Wikipedia) are the lowest they will ever be, go start something.

Start a business. A tiny one.

Train people in social media. Run an eBay selling business. Sell coffee from a truck every morning at the train station. Run spring break tours by bus for other college students. Start a newsstand on campus. Run a birthday cake delivery service. Train executives in public speaking. Start a dog poop shoveling business.

Start something. Run it. Be responsible.

1. You’ll probably make more money
2. You’ll certainly learn more
3. If you’re good at it, people will offer you a job
and
4. If you’re not, then why on earth would someone actually hire you? Go get good at it.

Have fun. No whining. This is your moment, go make a difference.

You can thank me later.

by Seth Godin

I originally found it through Twitter, here is the link to the original site which had some other very cool posts by the way, check it out.

I love Seth’s perspective here. I would add that if your objective is to just ‘get’ a job then you will meet dissapointment sooner than later. I know of many great jobs still available and would say “Don’t try to get a job, go get a job where you will learn, earn more than you do now (possibly in sales), and do something you at the very least enjoy.” Every job I have ever had has lead to other, even greater opportunities. Please don’t do something you hate for money. It isn’t worth it.

One of the things that has always interested me and something I love to do is business consulting. Let me be clear about a few things first. First of all, as a consultant for small businesses, the consultant (like a teacher) gets the most out of the consultation. Secondly, in my mind a business is merely a reflection of the owner or the people involved in that business. I would like to share my most recent and most reoccuring concept lately it is: clarity.

Clarity is so powerful. The advice, if you can call it that, or idea I have stressed the most with the people I am currently working with has been to get ‘crystal’ clear with everyone and everything that they are dealing with. We have a tendency to tolerate verbal agreements, ambiguities, undefined roles, and cloudy objectives. I specifically used the word tolerate because with a long term perspective, meaning the ability to see the choices we make and their accompanying results, we would not allow any unclarity. Unclarity creates liabilities, loss of trust, and many other undesirable consequences. 

What is possible?

I believe it is possible to create clarity in every area of life. We can be so clear in our communications that we cannot be misunderstood. We can capture every agreement we make in black and white. We can define roles and responsibilities so that accountability is easy. We can be clear with our intentions and rejuvenate relationships. There are many possibilities as far as clarity is concerned. My experience is that the more clear that I am the more certainty I have in my life (please see my post titled: ‘Nothing Cheaper than Certainty’, also post titled ‘Clarity.’) . If we are as one of my mentors said ‘Abundantly Clear’ we will be clearly abundant. Abundance is knowing the outcome, or knowing that the outcome will be desirable. Clarity breeds clarity. The more clarity we have the more abundance we will enjoy.

So get really clear and you will also get really abundant. Leave a comment for more ideas or feedback. More in store…