Finding Hope

Read newspapers. Watch television. Listen to certain music. Look around you. Talk to your children... Regularly, we hear a constant message that reflects doom and gloom - hopelessness.

Young students are ready to leave high school without the confidence of knowing what career to pursue that will provide security, fullfillment or even a job. University students are graduating with the fear of working at MacDonalds with a degree. Baby boomers are staying in their jobs for fear of being bored to death when they retire, focused on so many of their friends who either get sick or die soon after they retire.

There are So many people who are dissatisfied with their jobs (at least 45% of the working population). Statistics show that job dissatisfaction leads to alcohol and drug abuse, gambling, marital conflict, workplace conflict, firings, etc.

Okay, enough doom and gloom. There is hope. It is possible to have the best career imaginable. It is possible to have a great career plan. It is possible to get into the right university program that will result in a solid, meaningful, enjoyable and profitable career. It is possible to retire with purpose and enjoyment. Does it happen by luck, by chance or by "karma"? Absolutely not! I believe that there is a plan for each of us. I believe that the right job is there for us. All we have to do is find it. All we have to do is identify our interests, work values, work preferences, skills, aptitudes, personality -all of our gifts - to see where they fit. Then, set goals and put a plan into action. It really is quite simple. There is HOPE for a better life. There is HOPE for a better future. YOU have the power to put that hope in action.

Need help? Find HOPE! Call me at (306) 694-HOPE(4673) or e-mail me at gilles@jobnetworking.ca.

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