Anticipation

Have you ever been so eager to leave one job for another hoping that without the new job or assignment you are finished? Kaput? The No life after death feeling? You must get that job!...come rain come shine, by hook or crook?

Well, its happened to me and indeed life continues after the miserable death.. Just have to wake up every morning and painfully drag my body out of bed and take the long dreaded trek to the same workplace and do the laborious repetitive tasks like a robot. During the walk, I ponder about what exactly goes wrong during the numerous interviews I attend. Is it a problem of dressing the part, how to answer the questions correctly, the age problem? Salary scale? Experience? Someone tell me what the hell is it?

How do some people get certain jobs? There has been an attempt to go for the right courses and gear oneself towards a particular job, but all in vain. We all cannot go for the same course. That is why we have doctors, engineers, mechanics and a whole diversity of jobs. We are all good at something.

I know a friend of mine who knew what exactly she wanted and where she wanted to work after campus. Her parents wanted her to do law so badly that they offered anything. Fine.....Law she did and graduated, completed a full year at the Law Development Center but after that there was no stopping her. With a mind full of creative ideas, she took on a course in graphic designing and is now employed in one of Africa's best advertising agencies.

Before we search for that greener pasture or job that will bring heaven on earth, one must ask themselves what is it in the job makes you tick? What will make you jump out of your warm cozy bed to dash to work? Is it something that you love to do, is it something that makes you want to give more and more of your time? It has to be an assignment or a job that makes you feel whole. How best can I put it? While anticipating your new job after an interview, think twice about it.