Week #5: What Color is Your Parachute- Ch. 3

This week I read chapter 3 of What Color is Your Parachute. Every week I believe that he is so powerful when he writes and he is super positive about everything. In this chapter he discusses how job interviews are like dating. Both parties are kind of like "do you like me?", "is this going to work out", "do you want to go steady?" But when you think about that, that's how it works. You go into the interview process wondering if the employer will like you and if you will like them. Then at the end, they may ask you if you would like a job there, just like you would ask someone to date you. 

He also talks about how you are not as powerless as you think. No matter what situation you are in, there is always part of it that you can control. This women he talked to had MS and she was saying how she wasn't in control of any of it, but he said yes you are there are some things you can control. Within the next few weeks she was free of all symptoms. 

He goes on to talk about how you are not powerless in your job hunt as well. If you really want to get a job and really need to get a job, you will. He talks about how there millions of jobs that are unfilled each month across the U.S., and even when they are millions of jobs filled that month, at the end of the month there are still millions of open jobs on the market. He says if there is that many job openings every month than why don't we always have a job? And that's what the rest of the book is going to discuss.

At the end of the chapter he pretty much sums up job hunting. He says it is an art, not a science. Some people are really good at it and some people are just not good at it at all, but luckily there are a bunch of online classes and tools to help us look for jobs. He also says there is not an "always right" way to job hunt or change careers, and there is not an "always wrong" way to job hunt or change careers. Job hunting is mysterious and you don't know how things happen or when things happen. Also if you want a job that bad, it should be like a full-time job. I had a part-time job that I loved, but I wanted to get out of it because I just wasn't making enough money, so when I was searching for a new job in a new field, I was really working at it for a while and went on multiple interviews because it was in a field I have never been in before, and it turns out my hard work has paid off, because now I have a better job in the new field.