What are the top ten signs you are unemployable?
This list is not meant to compete with the humor of a David Letterman show. Nor will this list include the obvious signs like pure laziness of a sloth.
This list of the ten signs you are unemployable are characteristics of the entrepreneur, the one who dares to think differently, choose another path than society dictates, and who is truly not cut out to work for a boss.
TEN SIGNS YOU ARE UNEMPLOYABLE
1. You know you are worth MORE than what your job title says you are.
You just know this, it goes without saying. The paycheck you receive in exchange for the time you invest in your job is minuscule to what you are truly worth. Yes, you agreed with it when you were hired, but it doesn’t represent the full value and greatness of you because there’s so much more to you than just the boxed in, steadfast employee who shows up every day and delivers the work required for the paycheck.
2. You rebel against authority.
Now, this isn’t rebellion in the form of breaking laws. No, this is rebellion against being under someone’s thumb. Bosses tell you when you have to show up, when you can eat lunch, take a vacation, be off for your kid’s school party. You never agreed with slavery in the history of our country and you damn sure don’t agree with it now.
3. Competing with co-workers for the boss’s favor is sickening to you.
Oh, the ugly, selfish and destructive office politics and shenanigans among co-workers. Brown nosing, one-upping, extreme pushes to be the “favorite” or most “recognized” among your peers, your competition as it were.
You are not in high school now, that drama is exhausting and draining. It truly sickens you and you want no part of it.
4. There are days a ten minute break is just not enough.
There are days when an untimed, unplanned break in the routine would benefit both you and your productivity. Days when you just need an escape to destress, or revitalize your energy. Of course, bosses don’t recognize the value of allowing anyone that kind of freedom and trust, so they rule by policies and procedures manual that says ten minutes at 9:45 and 2:45 is all you get.
5. The pecking order irritates you, no – it pisses you off.
“You are just a ___________________.”
“This meeting is just for ____________________.”
“You are not allowed to interject here.”
“Your ideas are not valuable.”
You have keen insight and understanding that could contribute to the company, but your position puts you at the bottom of the heap for recognition. Your words fall on deaf ears, your ideas are squashed before they even get voiced. You are the low man on the totem pole, no matter how far up you think you’ve climbed. There’s a pecking order and … well, just go back to reason #1.
6. You are sick and tired of your life being dictated by the clock.
The alarm drags you out of bed, wakes your kids up way too early so you can get everyone ready and delivered before you report to your job. You watch the clock for your break time (if you even get one), you wait for lunch hour, you watch for the slow arrival of quitting time. The clock rules each hour, each minute of your day.
It’s not that you wouldn’t look at a clock if you worked from home,
(although many entrepreneurs have reported an experience of time warp in their days … because they LOVE what they are doing and they absolutely do lose track of time).
You know that working from home would mean having the control over your time, instead of time having control over you.
7. The yearly evaluation is only HR paperwork requirement fulfilled.
Every year it’s the same. You walk in, sit down and hear the words, “you’re doing a great job, but no, we aren’t promoting you. We are happy to give you a 2% raise. Sign here please to complete the evaluation.”
Evaluation done, HR requirements met, filed away and you walk out of the meeting thinking this is NOT how it’s going to be for me any longer. (again, go back to reason #1)
8. You realize it was all a big lie.
All your growing up years, all you heard was in order to have a successful life, you need to go to college to get a good job, work hard for the company, retire at 65 with a retirement package and then you can enjoy all the things you’ve been dreaming of doing.
No one bothered to tell you that student loan debt is the highest debt in the country and is never forgiven by bankruptcy. Take out a student loan and the government OWNS your ass.
No one thought it necessary to tell you the high percentage of college graduates who are unable to find a job within their field of study.
No one deemed it important to point out that the day of working for a company all your life and being secure and rewarded for it – working from the ground floor up to a high position just doesn’t happen now like it did for your grandfather or father. Downsizing, budget cuts, restructuring happens continually and you refuse to gather unemployment several times in your life … so, you become an entrepreneur and take control of the situation.
Not a single soul told you that retirement packages disappear from the deal the closer you get to retirement. “Mr. Johnson, there has been a change in our retirement structure and the result is your anticipated retirement benefit is less than previously stated.”
And I’m positive no one told you of the effects of stress on your body from working all those years for someone else. You reach retirement but you are absolutely worn out physically. Stress causes disease.
(did you know the heart attack rate is significantly higher on Monday mornings than any other day of the week?)
Nope. No one told you about this. But they should have.
9. You have more to contribute to the world, not to just one company.
It’s not that you harbor ill wishes toward your employer. It’s just that you know you can contribute on a much larger scale if you were your own boss. You realize the unlimited possibilities for serving and helping multitudes of people as an entrepreneur, not as an employee.
You think bigger. You dream bigger. You know that if you give more, you receive more … but unfortunately, that is something that has a cap on it as an employee. (back to #1 again!)
10. You have this song playing in your head that won’t be silent
The song is calling you to step into your own, to create the life that you desire, to build your own dream, not someone else’s.
You wake with it’s tune drifting in while you shower, you fall asleep with it playing its soft lullaby. It never stops playing. It’s with you all day at work, it’s constantly streaming into you.
It’s your own national anthem, it’s your song of freedom. Strummed on your heart strings, banged on your backbone, drifting into your eardrums, reverberating in your soul.
How did you score?
It wasn’t a test at all. There’s not a scientific method to measure and prove that you are unemployable … it’s a knowing, a gut feeling.
I’m just sayin’ that if any of those ten signs resonated with you, and you are sitting in a cubicle reading them thinking “WTF!” then, this article served its purpose … to get your attention and bring your awareness to being and doing greater, having more and living a life that you design.
Here’s to your Independence Day!
Trisha
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P.S. If I added #11 to the list, it would be this:
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