Perspective Shift
it’s all in the lens one uses
Laid off? Fired? No worries.
...As bad as it feels to lose a job, temporary unemployment can provide a much-needed intervention to workaholics who can benefit from such a brea
There’s less of a ‘why aren’t you working attitude’ that is giving people some extra space and freedom to explore new directions and just take time off to do the things they’ve wanted to do, whether it’s spending more time with children, taking a class, or traveling around the world,...
As the ranks of the nation’s unemployed grows, more Americans are facing the reality of life without work. Despite the grim task of making ends meet (firing the nanny, bailing on Whole Foods, applying for unemployment), there is a newly forming society of people who are making the best of being laid off. They are rediscovering hobbies. They are greeting kids at the school bus. They are remembering what daylight actually looks like....
...It’s the success syndrome. You work hard, you do well. It’s very satisfying and that gets you more involved to start working even harder,” Hall said. “It’s a success spiral that people get into. And sometimes it takes some extreme experience to get out of that spiral.
O’course without these workaholics so involved in their success spirals there won’t be any money for ∏eh W∅n’s Bailouts, deficit, entitlements, spending or vote buying ... But that’s not important now.
Take up macramé! Maybe ya can sell it by the side of the freeway. Folks will need more knotted-string products as we drive our mules down the off-ramp.
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