Well, it’s time for an update. A few weeks ago, I posted about leaving my job in ministry. I’m not going to rehash, but you can check out the post there to get a feel for what happened. At that point, I was leaving on a step of faith, for what I thought was best for myself and my family. It was scary, but we felt it was the right thing.
Well, less than a month later, we have confirmed our next step. I will be starting Wednesday with a digital branding firm primarily working with SEO/SEM and social media. This is a company I have done some freelance work for, both in and out of office, and have gotten a chance to know fairly well. There’s a lot of great opportunity there, I’ll be working with some great (and talented) people, and doing some really interesting work. (I will also, at least for the time being, not be moving. We’ll be staying put in Freehold, and we’ll figure out future housing situations in a few months.)
Hey, for those that were praying, thanks a lot for doing that. I’m pretty excited and thankful that the next steps are coming along really smoothly, and I’m pretty darned excited about them.
It’s also really making me re-think a lot of the problems with “getting a job in a bad economy.” I’m going to be making a bunch of posts about this in the next few weeks. I’m convinced that it’s not quite as bad as people make it out to be (though I know some people will differ), you just have to think differently than you have in the past, and that’s tough for a lot of people. I’m convinced that the jobs are out there, available, and/or that you can make them available. I’ve been studying this a lot over the past couple of years, and now I’ve been a part of it.
So, we have our next steps in place, I’m anxious to get started, and the future is looking really good. Here’s to 2012!
People having trouble thinking differently than they have in the past. You’ve become and expert dealing with folks like that. Congrats on the new job.
i think by giving us all you have experienced it will be an encouragement to those that need it,and make a difference for the good. thank you for your solid openness. You are loved .
Congrat’s Adam. I think you are right to an extent about the market, but I don’t think you can really generalize at all. Technology is expanding and you are relatively young. Someone who is 50+ who has had aniche career may find the market very difficult. The bottomline as with many things: “Where you stand, depends upon where you sit”
Greg
Thanks Greg. That’s true, and I can appreciate that. I just think that it’s always possible to learn new skills and set yourself up so that there’s alternatives. There’s room to be creative with current skills and use them in unique ways. Technology has opened up the arena for these skills to be used in ways that previously would not have been available, and there’s never been more resources to learn new skills.
I guess it does depend where you sit, but we’re all sitting better now than we would have been 50 years ago, I think.
-Adam
(sorry it took a while to respond).