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Being in a position of desperation can be difficult. Having ways to cope with and manage it effectively is the topic of this episode.

Join Scott and Andrew as they discuss real world tactics to deal with desperation.

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Ideas around making progress when there might be little hope

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4-Part Series on the Anatomy of a Networking ConversationJSR 015: The Set-Up

JSR 016: The Icebreaker JSR 017: The Question and AnswerJSR 018: The Ask 

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Welcome to job seekers radio. I'm Andrew, and I'm Scott this production is meant to provide you meaningful support to find great careers faster. Whether you're working or not today on job seekers radio were talking about how to network when you're desperate. I have quite a bit of experience this having been laid off. We've oh six times. Yeah. You got five or six I got four. Yeah. It's been interesting. How that comes up and admittedly some periods of unemployment have been quite short. But others have lasted a lot longer than I was comfortable doing and desperation the time that I was unemployed for a period of years. Yeah. I was desperate that the topic is important to me because I know others go through this. It is a tough time being unemployed is probably one of the hardest things, especially if you're employed. For a long period. It's going to be one of the hardest things you will ever encounter. I would put it up there with divorce because I can talk about that too about bankruptcy. There are a whole bunch of life experiences that are really really negative and being unemployed for a long period of time is going to rank pretty high on the list. I can tell you. I hate it. I absolutely all do hated it. And I think the emotions that go through and the the pariah and the the Monica of unemployed, and oh, you're out of work. You know, all those conversations are still fresh in my mind. Yes, there's a lot of judgment vault and most of the time and something will touch on by the end of this conversation is that most of that judgment is internal. It's how we feel about ourselves. Whether it's at this age, I should be unemployed. I should be preparing for retirement, whatever that is the. The that judgment is often worst internally, and it's not actually coming from other people. If you're in a position where you really really I mean really need a job we suggest go get a job it jump. And and that sounds rather flippant. But the idea is there are people out there hiring right now, I have driven by a number of places the metropolitan transit authority here in Portland called Tri met. They most of their buses have tremendous hiring. I've seen a postings out front of Home Depot recently that they are hiring. There are jobs out there, and it's not necessarily going to be a career. It's not necessarily going to be something you're going to be passionate about and loving it, and they treat you exactly the way you've always wanted to be it may not be like that. But there are advantages. I'd say steppingstone. Yes, it really is just a stepping stone to something better. And they know that this is going to be stepping stone. That's why they pay what they pay. And that's why they're jobs are open is because their high turnover all those things are true. Right. But for you the benefit is that my mind now is released from that fear that anxiety that worry how going to earn a living where my mom, where's my next paycheck gonna come from? And it may be a situation where the job you have to take doesn't pay enough. And we understand that too. And you may need to take a second job, and none of that necessarily feels good. But I'm going to suggest that unemployment takes a bigge...