Diaries of a Temp, Chapter 21: Sage Wisdom
2009 June 8
by Lyndsay Rush
If you are still checking out this website, chances are good that your unemploymentality is still in full gear. And if your unempoymentality is still in full gear, chances are even better that you are up to you ears in “career/life advice”.
Gag me with a spoon.
I still receive sympathetic shoulder squeezes, side smiles and quotes from motivational posters, and I’m not even technically “unemployed”.
And ya know, people mean well. They really do. But if I get one more encouragement that involves lemons and lemonades I might totally have a cow. And so, in light of all of the chin-chucking and gag inducing “go get em’s” that all of us are swimming in, I have developed my own list of advice that we should all start dishing out.
Feast on this. And feel free to engrave any of the below onto t-shirts, biceps, coffee mugs or hackey sacks.
- When one door closes, another door opens. But this door is on a hiring freeze. Sorry.
- Life is like a box of chocolates, and sometimes it takes months and months and months to find a job.
- When life gives you lemons, ask for some maple syrup and ceyene pepper too. This way you can do a cleanse.
- If at first you don’t succeed, go and get your masters.
- When you feel like giving up; don’t.
- Instead of giving myself reasons why I can’t, I give myself reasons why I can. And when that doesn’t work, I pull the blinds and go back to bed.
- When you come to the end of your rope, well, there’s lots of options there had you been a Sailor.
- Fall seven times, stand up eight..and then start watching where you’re walking, idiot.
- When you come to a fork in the road, search your soul, take a deep breath and don’t blow it.
- If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. And if you can wait tables, you’ll survive.
- Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. Bad work is done by people who are afraid to starve.
- A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work. But a day of watching tv on your couch; now that’s relaxing.
What about you? What gem have you received lately? Share with us we’d love to hear them!
Dinner is served,
LR
To hear more of LR’s musings, check out her blog!
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I chuckled heartily!
A high school English teacher of mine used to say “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
Very good stuff! Positive thinking sucks. I have a friend who says, “If life hands you lemons, make a gin and tonic.”
This little gem helps keep things in perspective for me:
“If you approach everyday like it’s your last, you would be dead tomorrow. And that doesn’t help anyone.”
This rocks. here’s a few:
- ‘Almost’ is just another words for ‘not’
- Keep it stupid. It’s quicker.
- Whatever doesn’t kill you, doesn’t tickle either.
- Inside every silver lining is a dark cloud.
- If today’s deadlines are important, just think how important they’ll be tomorrow.
This is a good one:
“If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Then go out and find someone whose life is giving them Vodka – and have a party!” – Ron White.
i’m using the last one on my facebook status
Thanks Lyndsay…I came across your blog from a Globe and Mail article you were quoted in. It inspired my blog posting: http://bit.ly/18eQtU.
I like to say, “sure you can make lemonade from a lemon…but at 25 cents a glass, is it really worth it”?