How would you react to a candidate who said, “You have to give me a new job. I am seriously considering suicide.”
I deal with that problem for real, literally. Forgive me, please, all of you suicide counselors, but I react the same way to that statement as I do to a threat on my life. The people who make that comment are a threat to me, my family, and my job. We have literally locked the front door of the office when worried about someone who made that comment.
You tend to infect people with your attitude. We locked the door because we were physically scared. Of course, we didn’t physically expect to get infected, but becoming psychologically infected is worse than a physical problem. When your mind is infected with hopelessness and negativity it takes a lot of work and treatment to become employable.
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. (James Thurber)
There are ways to change your attitude. If it really is caused by your job, you may want to quit right now. The trouble is that most of the time the job does not cause the attitude, and quitting may make it worse.
What you need to do is grab a book that helps you change that attitude. Go to Amazon and under books search for “attitude”. I like to get samples of the books delivered electronically to find out if I really want to buy them. You can get a Kindle reader for your PC just for that purpose.
No one has to give you a job. You have to earn a job. Figure out what you can do to have an attitude that someone else wants to get infected with. Work at it. Get a book or get a counselor.
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Check out two books on changing your attitude from the library. One interesting one is “Learned Optimism”. There are a lot of books that can help.
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