Day 1: Looking for a Job is a Full Time Job
Peter Fitzgerald is chronicling his process of navigating from losing his job to a new and brighter tomorrow. To read other posts from the series, see “Job Transition: A CareerSherpas’ Odyssey”.
Day 1
A side-effect of having so many people interested in helping is being really, really busy. This is a good thing.
Day 1 included responding to emails and calls, making more calls and sending more emails to new leads and generally trying to keep my head above water. The time flew by and the activity kept my spirits up. By the time I ended my day (a little early due to a school open house) I had somewhere in the realms of two dozen contacts sent and around a dozen connections made with people I didn’t know two days before.
I got to talking with my brother in the evening who made the observation that I was as busy out of work as I had been with the high workloads I’d been under in the days before.
Lessons from Day 1:
- Keep up with communications: The prioritized list you were working from is still your friend, but you’ll likely be adding to it rapidly.
- All leads are good leads: No matter how strange a possibility may look, it’s work pursuing.
(Since I’m a little behind, Day 2 will be arriving shortly.)
Peter Fitzgerald is the founder of CareerSherpas.com and is currently working on his first book, looking for a new day job, connecting individuals with ideas and opportunities, and attempting to learn the bagpipes.