LIR 22614 - OthiloR

Today's answers may lie somewhere other than the traditional path.  Look not amongst the skills & gifts handed down from family.  Reach outside your ancestral box.

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The situation that comes most to mind regarding this reading is the job hunt.

The questions -  "What do you want to be when you grow up?"  "What is your major?"  "What do you do?"  As if our jobs define us.  And we do, I believe, all want a job, or something, which gives us purpose and makes all the other crap we've brought into our lives worthwhile.

So here  I am, over 40, looking at the jobs for which I may be qualified, and thinking, but do I really want to BE a... sales clerk, file clerk, call center, admin assistant, bank teller...  for the rest of my life?  Do i want that to be my career?

But the truth is, this job search isn't about the rest of my life, in that sense.  It is about the next moment.  Fulfilling my needs for the next moment.  It even says it in most of the descriptions... these are "at will" jobs.  I work there while I want to work there.  They employ me while they want to employ me.  I can work where I find work.  I can switch jobs.  As we all know, life is about change and growth, not stasis.

And I already have a job, I just need more income.  So I am actually looking for a second job.

So, the non-traditional job hunt.  What will get me what I need for this next moment?  And working with something that I can be excited about, or want to learn more about.  Remove the limits of labels and titles.  Heck, given that a lot of companies are hiring temporary or part time, I may end up finding two or three jobs!  On top of the ones I already have.  So.

Also, to stay out of the insurance genre.  For that is a family thing.

And whether I am working in a shop, or alphabetizing, or answering phones, what I DO is still the same - being the best Lila I can be.

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LIR 22714 - No rune & Wunjo

A day to practice our truths, with no special emphasis.  But, if you need something to ponder, try this.  What symbols do you want to represent you?  Around which flags do you wish to gather?

Thank you, and I hope you have a great day!

-Lila