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Have been looking at my productivity or value in a number of different ways over the past few weeks.
As the time grinds on, it is hard to maintain a positive perspective on the process of finding a job in this economy. Maintaining a positive perspective has many different aspects and through this journey a change that has taken place in when I feel valued. When I feel more valued, my perspective is more positive.
When working, each two weeks Boeing would send a fat check to confirm that value that I was bringing to the corporation. Now with severance and unemployment, I’m getting paid for past value and not for present value creation and at times I have wondered if I am bringing any value.
I have at least three areas of value creation or service that I am still working. The first being a stay at home Dad and taking care of the house and meals. And the second being my house remodel. The third is in improving my health.
Looking for a job is a necessary activity, and I receive positive psychological rewards when a great job requisition is found, the call comes in to interview, or just going through an interview process. But there is also stress related to the not hearing, my lack of patience, and then the death by a thousand paper cuts from the little rejections received on a daily basis. This seems like a different than providing value.
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