Career transition is a difficult thing to go through. It tests your self-esteem, your courage, your faith, your self-discipline, and sometimes your endurance. The job has ended. There’s no work to get up for, no place you must drive to, no desk or workstation awaiting your arrival. What do you do? Well, now it’s up to you to create that reason to get out of bed. It’s up to you to create a new workspace and a new work routine. Fact is, you do have a job! It may be the toughest job you’ll ever have. Your job is to find a new job. The best thing you can do is to treat your search for new employment like a job. Set regular hours, determine where your new “office” will be, and get to work. Motivation is the most important thing. When you work for someone else, you have a company and a boss to report to. Like it or not, having a job to do every day provides forced motivation. Your job requires you to do things you like and some things you don’t like. All jobs are like that. You do them all because there are incentives if you do and disincentives if you don’t. The biggest incentive to do your job is the paycheck you receive on a regular basis. Disincentives include performance write-ups, punitive assignments, and admonitions from the boss, just to name a few. So, you are “forced” to find the motivation to get the job done. But wait . . . now those “motivators” are gone! There’s no paycheck and no one to...
