I know what’s on your mind…
I think the same question is lingering in everybody’s head right now.
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A lot of people’s heads.
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Are things really as bad as they seem?
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I’m talking about looking for work in particular.
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There’s a lot of things going on, but I’m talking about looking for work.
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And looking for work, I think we can all agree, is one of the least attractive activities that we ever do in life.
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I wrote a book about just how awful the job search is and how can you make it like a teensy bit better.
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So you’re looking for work and it sucks nowadays.
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It’s taking three months, four months, five months, six months to look for work, and it sucks.
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And it’s lonely and you second-guess yourself.
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A lot.
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That’s kind of a huge part of the job search.
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Am I doing something wrong?
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Is it me?
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Have I lost my juice?
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Am I not good enough anymore?
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Have things changed and passed me by and I missed the boat?
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There’s just all of us.
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I don’t care who you are.
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There’s a tape that just starts running.
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The more silence you have, the more that tape starts running.
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It’s not you.
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It’s the job search.
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But is it extraordinarily bad now?
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Is it really bad right now?
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Well, I could say that as somebody who talks to people looking for work day in and day out, that these stories are piling up of despair.
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And I mean despair from all sides.
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So I talk with the people who get laid off and the people doing the layoffs who maybe then get laid off after that.
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I talk with the people building the A I and the people getting laid off by the A I, and sometimes those people are one in the same.
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It seems like more than ever I’m getting stories of people losing jobs, things going wrong, companies disappearing, consolidation and blah blah blah blah blah.
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So I’m gathering all these stories and I’m realizing.
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I think, like I said at the beginning, we’re all kind of wondering like, is something coming?
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Is there something out there?
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And you know what?
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I think that anxiety of that is individualized right now.
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I think it’s just in each of us.
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I think we’re all feeling it, but I don’t know that we’re.
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Acknowledging it that much or talking about it.
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Nobody wants to kind of show up at the party and be doom and gloom.
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Certainly not the bright side guy, but that seems to be what I’m dishing out these days, the reality of the doom and the gloom.
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And I think one reason why we’re still questioning it is because we’re not voicing it.
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That anxiety is deep in each of us.
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It’s not sort of laid out across platforms.
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It’s not really being talked about at all by politicians, not nearly enough in the media, every side of the media.
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You might have podcasters here and there, but again, that’s kind of fractured.
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So I really just want to acknowledge this.
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I think we all need to start doing that.
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I have this kind of bird’s eye view and I’ve been feeling it from people, people.
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There’s something happening here.
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Something big is going on and a lot, a lot of us are getting impacted by this.
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And I’m talking mostly about artificial intelligence.
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We’ve never seen anything like it, but there’s so much, there’s so much more.
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So just for one thing, the tech industry, I’ve never seen an out-of-work engineer that’s sort of panicking.
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And that’s happening right now.
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That’s just one example, but there are so many.
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So don’t hold this in anymore.
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Don’t hold it to yourself.
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Put this in the conversation.
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Let’s get it out there in the dialogue.
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There is a major problem with looking for work and being employed right now, and it really does center around A I and there’s a lot of uncertainty.
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But there’s also just a huge amount of anxiety, and that anxiety is completely warranted.
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All right, so, so cough it up, throw it up, get it out.
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Share your story.
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Let’s be real about this.
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Something’s coming.
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We got to stick together.
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All right, take care, people.
