Show Notes

Many times in your life you might have taken jobs for different reasons. Occasionally, you will take a job that is just there for the money when you just have to have source of income. 

Scott and Andrew discuss the Art of Underemployment with a focus on Survival Jobs.

Don't miss these Topics:

What is a survival job.

What kind of stepping stone is this - and be honest.

How much of the truth you might share with employers

How to find and choose the right survival job

Identifying remote work alternatives

Value of networking to find survival jobs

The role of motivation in your decisions to take work

How to look at the idea of survival job

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Indeed

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Monster

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 View TranscriptWe’re talking about how to leverage and under employed situation to your advantage we always start these kinds of conversations talking about motivation what is motivating you there are some easy ones I've been unemployed for a period of time and I really don't have any savings left I need to bring some money and clearly you got to get a job and you don't feel like you're in your mind so having that income coming in situation or not I think is worth at least considering if you might be running Experience went long after my unemployment benefits ran out and I was living with family had been looking for that kind of work that I absolutely love doing it and I couldn't find anything and finally got to take the next job became the next job I also think that I need a different kind of knowing that I had but if you did give me some clarity as I was moving forward I had to find something in fortunately this was an application I put in before that conversation happened but I think it impacted the way I interviewed for that job and you made a positive difference taking all kinds of different jobs I've been in situations where I needed and I took whatever came on Do you want to at least get in the ballpark having a clear Destiination to say OK yeah I know the Destiination is over there but this shirt and so even though that was identified as a survivor job for me I did not get all the prior thinking of survival but it turns out to be something exactly many times these can open doors of things you would never considered otherwise and I've known people who actually started a career through a similar situation where they just took a job to take the job and they liked it so well he grew into it into a career a lot of times job is really just I got to survive the holidays right got to survive this thing that's coming up I remember when I was a kid my mom took a job back in the days when people could live on one income And so does your survival jobs in the sense that you're surviving and getting what you want not just kinds of things we come back to the question of motivation it it's important I think to set it up knowing what is motivating you to do this if it's something that you really don't need that I would be great but then when the stakes are high need to be a little more careful about talking a lot about the podcast about having choices so let's not overlook the fact that sometimes people don't have a choice they have to get something right but if you do have a choice then you can pick something up even though you've identified so you could say all right I need It's a choice that you're making going in the right direction especially in those times where you don't feel you have a choice you have to get something the more decisions you can make in the directions you're going or the companies that you're applying to more it feels like a positive so for example when I was unemployed for long. One of the boys to get into a nursery and a part-time job at a local nursery because I really enjoy as in the plants I would've been happy to get involved in the school for a while I thought it was gonna be another st...