I’m finding out some fascinating things about managing your mental state during the job hunting process. Here’s just a few:<\/p>\n
1. My emotions are very much dependent on other peoples’ behavior.\u00a0 I submit a job application, but then get no response at all – that’s depressing.\u00a0 I make a\u00a0connection with someone who might be able to help – now I feel great. I look through job listings but can’t find anything – I’m depressed again.\u00a0Partly this is just the nature of the game, but I think there’s a lot to be said for having a plan of attack and just sticking to the plan.\u00a0I can feel good about meeting the goals I’ve set for myself, even if there’s no immediate payoff.<\/p>\n
2. I have a LOT of balls in the air at any moment.\u00a0 Not only am I pursuing two largely independent possible career paths, but also giving presentations and lots of networking.\u00a0 I have to rely on my systems to keep from letting things fall through the cracks – what\u00a0<\/em>most worried me when my PC died on Monday.<\/p>\n 3. It’s too easy to stay in my comfort zone.\u00a0 I’m not a great networker, so I have to force myself to pursue that – because that’s where my next job will come from.\u00a0 It’s too easy just to do stuff on the PC.\u00a0 Like blogging. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n And I can’t forget to take care of my health during all this, mental, physical and spiritual.\u00a0 So it’s now time to go have lunch with my wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m finding out some fascinating things about managing your mental state during the job hunting process. Here’s just a few:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,7,29],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carl","4":"has-more-link","5":"post-516","7":"format-standard","8":"category-career","9":"post_tag-career-coaching","10":"post_tag-job-change","11":"post_tag-job-hunt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}