The focus of my attention

It's very simple......... I don't enjoy this job! For me to make a difference in life, it's vital to be fueled with the right kind of motivation. But right now, I'm running on empty. A friend( which I will name Clark) and I where talking tonight. After he sent me a job via e-mail. He said Lois (Lois AKA Sparklingirl) you'd be perfect for this role and then I gave him all these excuse on how I couldn't ans for someone that works in recruitment that was pretty lame. I believe he's exact words were was surely no-one has exactly all the criterias that employers ask for. What he meant was "Your the Recruiter think about it, use your brains" Then for a minute I wanted to feel sorry for myself for the fact that the Job description specifically required;

• Graduate Calibre or 2-3 years of working in a corporate environment
• Fluent French

I speak French fluently. Most people assume I am a graduate. The closets thing I have to a degree is ten years of professional career experience in the employment and training industry. Knowing how to get a job is my forte and teaching people is the icing on top. So this should be a walk in the park. Yes in fact it should but I couldn't clearly define my corporate environment experience. I kept thinking well what is the employer's definition of Corporate Environment it might be different to mine. And yet transferring my skills on a on paper and in words has never been a problem.

I taught myself into job-hunting but I didn't really have a focus. I did say I would give myself six months to leave this job. So where to? or what for? I don't think I had any fuel to move, since the focus of my attention had no sense of direction.


What's the idea of moving to a different job if all it is for me is just another fix until I get to my first choice. The first choice has nothing to do with a simple 9-5 job.

(Career choice in that specific order - In which I stand at number 2)

1. Writting
2. Employment consultant
3. Anything

But I guess there's always something getting in the way. The things which require more of my attention. Like being unhappy in the environment that I work in, feeling unbalanced. Or finishing paying up my credit card debt ( a two and half year plan), furnishing my new flat (already been here 4 months and I don't own a bed), my 30th birthday in less than 3 months -I haven't saved. My dad critically ill with cancer.

So I guess I do this to myself I have the choice of either job-hunting and planning for the next six months. As Clark said" focus on what matters most". And what matters most in my life is writing. Clark was so in-tune with me, that he helped me figure it out. I's funny 'cause I tell my customers a hundred times to focus their attention on what matters most and not what's in the way. Like all the issues. These issues and hurdles will never go away so I guess I you better get use to it. I speak for myself also in saying that "I should get use to this".

So what doe that have to do with you the reader I guess you'll learn by reading real stories about real people who job-hunt or career change everyday just like you. I have plenty to tell and more to learn especially having encountered a number of people with both inspiring and life-changing stories. All from personal friends, colleagues, customers and people I have met on the train or on my travels. I hope you can enjoy and comment on. What the job is that?

Personal note - All characters are real with a slight change of name like myself. Lois/Sparklingirl
Some stories from second or third parties cannot always be traced to which I've added an element of fiction. Enjoy this read.

Lois