Comments on: Is your career blessed or, just a mess … http://www.lisakaye.com/2009/12/13/is-your-career-blessed-or-just-a-mess/ The Career Rebel Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:56:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jamie http://www.lisakaye.com/2009/12/13/is-your-career-blessed-or-just-a-mess/comment-page-1/#comment-1114 Jamie Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:46:40 +0000 http://www.lisakaye.com/?p=664#comment-1114 There's always Lemonade to made. Or in one laid off worker's case, you can make a movie about making Lemonade. http://www.lemonademovie.com/ "It's not a pink slip. It's a blank page." There’s always Lemonade to made. Or in one laid off worker’s case, you can make a movie about making Lemonade. http://www.lemonademovie.com/
“It’s not a pink slip. It’s a blank page.”

]]> By: Uma http://www.lisakaye.com/2009/12/13/is-your-career-blessed-or-just-a-mess/comment-page-1/#comment-1101 Uma Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:09:59 +0000 http://www.lisakaye.com/?p=664#comment-1101 Thanx just a needed motivation. ............gr8 article.............but the time to click on the right opportunities and entering new challenges and proving them, just exhausts and make you feel spent. but the results are top of the world feelings. Thanx just a needed motivation. …………gr8 article………….but the time to click on the right opportunities and entering new challenges and proving them, just exhausts and make you feel spent. but the results are top of the world feelings.

]]> By: Charlie Alfred http://www.lisakaye.com/2009/12/13/is-your-career-blessed-or-just-a-mess/comment-page-1/#comment-1071 Charlie Alfred Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:38:02 +0000 http://www.lisakaye.com/?p=664#comment-1071 Very appropriate advice, Lisa. While contemplating obstacles and risks helps us to plan ways to overcome them and reach our goals, obsessing about them leads to frustration, negativity, and saps our will to create and achieve. I personally faced this dilemna in a company where I faced significant internal obstacles to change, and opted to leave to return to a company I had worked at 3 years ago, simply because the energy level and challenges were much more positive, and I perceive a greater opportunity to make a difference. Very appropriate advice, Lisa. While contemplating obstacles and risks helps us to plan ways to overcome them and reach our goals, obsessing about them leads to frustration, negativity, and saps our will to create and achieve.

I personally faced this dilemna in a company where I faced significant internal obstacles to change, and opted to leave to return to a company I had worked at 3 years ago, simply because the energy level and challenges were much more positive, and I perceive a greater opportunity to make a difference.

]]> By: M http://www.lisakaye.com/2009/12/13/is-your-career-blessed-or-just-a-mess/comment-page-1/#comment-1068 M Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:36:48 +0000 http://www.lisakaye.com/?p=664#comment-1068 Thank you. I have been having one of those days, and your post helped me remember how I should be thinking. I have been in a self-imposed rut the past two days wondering about how I will pay the bills and getting any type of job, and forgetting the fact that sometimes it takes a little time for different people to find something that both keeps your stomach filled and makes you happy. I'll find something, just need to have some patience and keep on working at it. Enjoy my friends, my comfy apartment, and my opportunities to work with other creative types and the free time to work on personal projects. Thanks again, now I'm off to make some toys work. Thank you. I have been having one of those days, and your post helped me remember how I should be thinking. I have been in a self-imposed rut the past two days wondering about how I will pay the bills and getting any type of job, and forgetting the fact that sometimes it takes a little time for different people to find something that both keeps your stomach filled and makes you happy.

I’ll find something, just need to have some patience and keep on working at it. Enjoy my friends, my comfy apartment, and my opportunities to work with other creative types and the free time to work on personal projects.

Thanks again, now I’m off to make some toys work.

]]> By: Anthony http://www.lisakaye.com/2009/12/13/is-your-career-blessed-or-just-a-mess/comment-page-1/#comment-1067 Anthony Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:17:11 +0000 http://www.lisakaye.com/?p=664#comment-1067 Thanks, really needed to hear that right now. It's very true. A whole year can't go by without several good things happening. Just gotta keep your eye on them. Thanks, really needed to hear that right now. It’s very true. A whole year can’t go by without several good things happening. Just gotta keep your eye on them.

]]> By: Leigh http://www.lisakaye.com/2009/12/13/is-your-career-blessed-or-just-a-mess/comment-page-1/#comment-1066 Leigh Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:58:41 +0000 http://www.lisakaye.com/?p=664#comment-1066 I find that concentrating on all the negative aspects of my career provides an "unstoppable engine" to improve my situation; Im not prepared to sit back and let my growing frustration dissipate amongst fond memories. If I hate a job, I knuckle down for precisely the amount of time it takes to get me into a better role. I find that concentrating on all the negative aspects of my career provides an “unstoppable engine” to improve my situation; Im not prepared to sit back and let my growing frustration dissipate amongst fond memories.
If I hate a job, I knuckle down for precisely the amount of time it takes to get me into a better role.

]]> By: guy b http://www.lisakaye.com/2009/12/13/is-your-career-blessed-or-just-a-mess/comment-page-1/#comment-1063 guy b Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:10:26 +0000 http://www.lisakaye.com/?p=664#comment-1063 I like your perspective. I am kind of torn in my career…but what matters more to me is the ‘evolution’ of our careers. You mentioned the ‘corner office’ and the ‘promotion’, I agree. Those decisions and goals and objectives are yours for the taking. We must have vision, drive and the ability to see it and achieve it. There aren’t too many out there that stumble upon greatness. Maybe a few, but the norm is to work the process. With that said, I have witnessed the evolution, dénouement and what appears to be the disenfranchisement of the contemporary, careerist. The economy tanked and so did the funding for the services, goods and trade that were and are so desperately needed to keep the organic evolutionary process going. We have literally sealed our own fate and I don’t know how many of use truly had a ‘choice’ or input in these directions, or, paths that we are now on, negotiating and experiencing the personal side of our career mortality. But to break away from the standards and trappings of a ‘career’ is a true act of survival. Opportunities to experience life are what are out there now…All of them; good and bad. The wins, the falls we will feel them all and feel them as we are intended to. I would recommend that we all experience life and its true potential. Not some made up, Madison Ave depiction of what kind of life you can have. In the stead, embrace the radical changes. Master them. Learn how to negotiate out present situation and evolve. I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday and lets look up to the prospects of 2010… I like your perspective.
I am kind of torn in my career…but what matters more to me is the ‘evolution’ of our careers.
You mentioned the ‘corner office’ and the ‘promotion’, I agree. Those decisions and goals and objectives are yours for the taking.
We must have vision, drive and the ability to see it and achieve it. There aren’t too many out there that stumble upon greatness. Maybe a few, but the norm is to work the process.
With that said, I have witnessed the evolution, dénouement and what appears to be the disenfranchisement of the contemporary, careerist.
The economy tanked and so did the funding for the services, goods and trade that were and are so desperately needed to keep the organic evolutionary process going.
We have literally sealed our own fate and I don’t know how many of use truly had a ‘choice’ or input in these directions, or, paths that we are now on, negotiating and experiencing the personal side of our career mortality.
But to break away from the standards and trappings of a ‘career’ is a true act of survival.
Opportunities to experience life are what are out there now…All of them; good and bad.
The wins, the falls we will feel them all and feel them as we are intended to.
I would recommend that we all experience life and its true potential. Not some made up, Madison Ave depiction of what kind of life you can have.
In the stead, embrace the radical changes. Master them. Learn how to negotiate out present situation and evolve.

I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday and lets look up to the prospects of 2010…

]]> By: Rumana Khan http://www.lisakaye.com/2009/12/13/is-your-career-blessed-or-just-a-mess/comment-page-1/#comment-1062 Rumana Khan Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:36:50 +0000 http://www.lisakaye.com/?p=664#comment-1062 Such a nice article! felt gr8 after reading this,,,,,,,quite motivational :-) Warm Regards, Rumana Khan Such a nice article! felt gr8 after reading this,,,,,,,quite motivational :-)

Warm Regards,

Rumana Khan

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