| You love living in Colorado but ask yourself if you’re really happy at work or if you’d really rather be doing something else for a living. Be honest; deep down don’t you know there’s something better out there for you. Even if you’re one of the lucky ones who like their work ask yourself a question: is this the perfect job for you? If the answer is no then what are you going to do about it?Up to 75 percent of American workers aren’t satisfied with their jobs yet many people remain in place. Understandably the economic volatility caused by the collapse of the real estate market and the war in Iraq make people nervous when it comes to making a job change but I’d rather to spend the rest of my life looking for a job I enjoy instead of hanging onto a job I hate.The big question then becomes “what is my dream job”, it seems obvious but it may be tougher to answer the question than you think. The concept of the perfect job is slowly beaten out of us because often our vision of the perfect job is more of a hallucination than a dream. The trick is to be realistic in your expectations, work to your strengths and look at more than one option during the process. There’s a lot of incubation going on in the Colorado Springs, Denver, Boulder and Ft. Collins area but keep in mind that startups and other small companies have an 80 percent failure rate. So if you’re perfect job needs to include a little security then that’s a strong argument for chasing your dream at a larger company that offers both growth opportunities and security.
Whatever your perfect job may be there are dream jobs out there and people do figure out ways to get them; that being said there are also a lot of jobs that are simply an upgrade,-well-paying, stimulating work that may not be your perfect job but will get you to a better place while you continue the search for workplace nirvana. And for a host of little-understood reasons, we’re approaching a rather good time for trading up in the job market. Happy hunting; when the labor market tightens hiring criteria relax and doors open, another strategy is to move from a depressed sector to a livelier one which can also grow a paycheck by as much as 25% overnight. Cheers!! p. smurf |
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