Need to describe an imperfect situation ambivalently, objectively, dispassionately?
Here's your phrase:
It is what it is.
It's a phrase that usually drives me buggy. But it's one that sums up the current U.S. job market. Millions of jobs have been lost during the recession. As a job hunter myself, I have adopted a Zen perspective.
It is what it is.
And what the job market is, is a game of musical chairs. The only difference being, in musical chairs one chair is removed at a time. In the job market the number of chairs being removed is wildly disproportionate to those seeking them: the current players, not to mention the steady influx of players with their newly minted degrees in Parlor Games.
It is what it is.
When I apply for a freelance copywriting job, I try not to think of the hundreds of other writers who are applying for the same job. All of us thinking, If I circle the chairs slowly enough, if I dive in quickly enough, if I hang on hard enough, I'll get to grab and keep a chair.
It is what it is. And what it is, is mathematically impossible for everyone to get a chair.
Knowing that is liberating. In a Zen sort of way.
Flickr Photo Credit: j_a_clarke77
Here's your phrase:
It is what it is.
It's a phrase that usually drives me buggy. But it's one that sums up the current U.S. job market. Millions of jobs have been lost during the recession. As a job hunter myself, I have adopted a Zen perspective.
And what the job market is, is a game of musical chairs. The only difference being, in musical chairs one chair is removed at a time. In the job market the number of chairs being removed is wildly disproportionate to those seeking them: the current players, not to mention the steady influx of players with their newly minted degrees in Parlor Games.
It is what it is.
When I apply for a freelance copywriting job, I try not to think of the hundreds of other writers who are applying for the same job. All of us thinking, If I circle the chairs slowly enough, if I dive in quickly enough, if I hang on hard enough, I'll get to grab and keep a chair.
It is what it is. And what it is, is mathematically impossible for everyone to get a chair.
Knowing that is liberating. In a Zen sort of way.
Flickr Photo Credit: j_a_clarke77
This post was submitted to www.momsrising.org for its blogathon today on retaining unemployment funds. While at the site I came across this post from Deacon's Blog, which backs up the idea of multiple contestants for one chair (job) with cold hard statistics. http://konicki.com/blog2/
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