Job hunting is the pits!

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If there is one thing I hate next to cooking is job hunting. This is the worst ordeal one can face. The emotional turmoil that one goes through and not to mention being broke as the story of your life. I know I have been looking for a job for some time and the results of that is desperation. You end up doing settling for some crappy job so that you can hold onto something and get money while you hate the place.

I have done odd jobs for a person who has a diploma. Nothing disgusts me more than these fly by night businesses that take advantage of desperate people who want to work. Also working at a place where you know you are not challenged and wasting your time and getting a low salary.

The emotion that comes with seeking employment is when you do not get that job. The money you waste of which you don’t have going to interviews, internet cafe’s printing out your CV and other documents that are needed. The only thing one can hang on to is hope. Hope that you will get that ideal job you deserve.

Getting rusty

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As a little girl, I could do and dreamt many things. I was an athlete, one of the best actresses, model, could draw and I was crafty. I attended schools that could hone my talents but in my high school days I had to focus on being an academic, getting good marks so I could get into varsity. I continued to do the things I loved as a little girl but somehow I felt forced.

I became rebellious but I was a good child. I did a few bad things that teenagers do. One thing I have come to realise is that I do not like being confined and being surrounded by ridiculous rules meaning I was restricted. That attitude has stuck with me and it is not a good one. I am stuck. As I am growing I realise that I am yearning to do the things that I feel I missed out on and time is ticking.

I wanted to be so many things but I haven’t achieved any of those. Opportunities have come and gone and I always played it safe. I need to take risks and jump at an opportunity and work hard as I did when I was a young girl.

Every day is a good day

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“Every day is a good day” is a quote from a Zen  koan spoken by Master Yun Men. The statement is found to be the most influential quotes of Zen literature.

To have conviction that every day is a good day means that we are living our own lives. If we discriminate it based on our feelings of happiness or unhappiness and say ‘i wonder if today wil be good” or “today i am so happy that it is a good day” or “if something good happens to me today i will regard it as a good day” with that attitude it means that we are living our lives passively. As if life is something that happens to us. If we live this way we are giving up the direction of our own lives and we will inevitably decline.

To understand that every day is a good day takes courage. Some days we will suffer, some days we will be happy. If its ur day to fight then you will fight, if its your day to die then you will die. The attitude can be contradictory to our familiar mental habits. The implication of thinking this way is that we are responsible for our own lives, and if we treat each day as a good day to face what we face then our lives begin to change.