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Live Your Dream Now!

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Quitting Our Jobs For The Big Trip

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Disclaimer: This post might trigger ideas and thoughts that might be dangerous for your job.

Thenix and I were discussing unemployment rates in Europe (57% in Spain for those under 25 and 27% unemployment rate overall) and that brought up our decision to go on this trip for a year. When I looked at all the people in the world who were suffering due to the recession or due to wrong decisions on the part of their governments; struggling because they themselves do have a job to support their families with, it made me feel guilty that we were able to go off and live our dream.

We both realize as do a lot of you, that the world is becoming a more unstable place as time goes on. Nothing can be relied upon. Neither the banks, nor the governments. Neither your job or your schools. Because of this instability, I know that we have to act now or forever hold our peace. Think about this – how many times has this scenario played out: a person decides he is going to live out his dream next year and next year never comes – due to war, famine, death, destruction, circumstance or whatever it might be.

The world needs people to be quiet, do their jobs and not rock the boat. The government needs that so they can have a peaceful economy that keeps on moving forward. The retailers need that so they have bored people purchasing their stock. The employers need that so they can keep on declaring profits on their statements.

NO ONE is looking out for you and your dreams. No one cares about your life and how you wish to live it. No one gives a damn about your hopes and aspirations. No one, but you. If you don’t do it now, if you do not start living your life right now, tomorrow might never come. You might be sitting here planning to start living your dream in 5 or 10 years, but that time never comes.

Eventually, you are sitting on your deathbed, and it is too late. I know this is dire thinking, but if you ask any person over the age of 60, they will all tell you one thing. Do not leave your life till too late. Live it now. Right now. This very second. Go start working on that dream that you’ve had since you were 10.

If you haven’t heard of the Big Trip yet, you are in for a treat. Boom and Thenix are travelling to the southern most tip of South America, through the West Cost of US, Mexico and parts of South America and back up the East Coast. We are planning on leaving on or around June 21st. We have made a detailed budget for the trip and we have included it here  for those of you who are curious about how much a trip like this would cost. We will travel for a total of 50,000 kms to around 22 countries. If you have any other questions about the trip please see our post on The Big Trip.

Hopelessness

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I don’t even know if Hopelessness is a word, but it is what would be used to describe me in my job search efforts. After a year of not getting a job, of going to countless interviews and being rejected at the most crucial endpoint, I am feeling glum. I am hopeful about everything else in my life, my health is great due to yoga, touchwood. My finances touchwood are chugging along, touchwood. My family and friends relationships are great, touchwood. I am dating a lot and meeting new people, touchwood. I would like something more to happen with Mr. Construction guy, but at least it hasn’t completely fizzled out. He’s just extremely busy. But the fact of the matter is that if he really liked me, maybe he would find the time to see me? Who knows. I am still giving him the benefit of the doubt.

As you can see, everything else is chugging along, you might wonder why do you need a full-time job. Well, I can’t work as a server all my life. I need something else. A vocation, something that brings me joy and allows me fulfillment. I like being a server at the moment, but eventually I will need to find something else.

Why isn’t my job search successful? It can’t just be the job market? Can it? I guess all I can do is not lose hope, keep on plodding along, keep on applying to jobs and something should click. Lets cross our fingers and hope for a job.

Applying for jobs

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I have been applying for jobs in the Marketing field for about a year now. Since last May, I have consistently sent out my resume to thousands of companies, hoping to hear back from them. And I have been lucky enough to hear back from at least a dozen of them. I have even been lucky enough to reach the final three contestants on their interview game show. But I have always been one of the three that have been rejected for not being qualified enough or for being too qualified, or for whatever else reason they could make up.

That really sucks, doesn’t it? I mean, its all fine and dandy if I don’t get called in for an interview. I don’t actually feel the pain of rejection as badly. But when I get called in for an interview, I get to the final stage of the interview process, I am the very last ones out of hundreds they pick out, and then I get the boot, that hurts, that really, really hurts. It hurts where it counts most, in the self-esteem booty. It hurts even more when you see the person they chose over you. You look at that person and you look at them and you have this look on your face. Seriously? Seriously, you chose that loser over me. I can’t believe it.

Of course, at that point, you want to pull out the race card. Is it because I am a minority? Is it? Well, is it? You will never know obviously, even though non-minority individuals get selected over you every single time. You could blame it on the race card, or you could blame it on the fact that you left the last company you worked at after only one year and went to travel for a year. Maybe that could have something to do with it? What do you guys think?