It has been a few weeks since my last posting and between dodging political mud slinging and bank collapses, we have been diligently working on finding new business and filling our client's needs. But the sounds of silence over the past couple of weeks when this "credit crisis" appeared out of the bad news fog, is about as deafening in our office as the first few weeks after 9/11 2001.
Hello! Is anybody out there? Oh, I know. We are all staring at our computer monitors in complete disgust as we see our stock portfolios being wiped out, but unfortunately for me, I talk too much about risk taking to not follow up so here I am, while the phones are down, looking at blue chip stocks that probably need to be bought with my last little bit of cash.
But I digress. This is an unstable time around the world and it is unstable in so many sectors, if you try and look at them all, you will just fall down in a dizzy heap so take this time to still your mind and focus. Focus is my mantra for the next month.
And that is the best advice I have for any of you out there in the job market as well. Don't go spinning out of control into depths of despair. Focus on meaningful companies--do your homework. Make perfect follow-up your goal and elbow your way into every networking event that you can muster. Watch your spending--this is NOT the time for retail therapy--but do spend a few bucks on thank you cards--the old fashion ones that require a stamp. There are so very few sent out these days, I find they are getting a welcome response.
Focus on your friends, family and your health so that the stress of "world economics" don't add to your own individual woes any more than it must. As a news junkie myself, that is a tall order, but I am taking this quiet time to focus on growth industries and markets that will expand no matter what happens in the coming weeks. And on that note, I'm turning off this computer and going to the gym.
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