The media would have them believe that it is a hopeless situation simply because of the state of the economy. While this is a rough time, it is not the end of the world and as long as people go out there thinking out of the box in a creative way and market themselves as if they are marketing a million dollar product you’ll either find some type of employment or find an opportunity to create a job for yourself to fill a void that you recognize while conducting your search.

There is as much opportunity now as there was at the height of the market the opportunities just have shifted. Now there is opportunities to help people where as before there was as much opportunity for sharks to take advantage of people.

These are times to assess your skills, training, hobbies and focus on fulfilling a needed for others thereby creating a win win situation with a new job creation.

my video is here if you care to watch. Warning, I am not a professional speaker and this is not meant to be an attempt at professional advice. This is simply common sense big picture thinking and I wanted to make the video and another after because it seemed that so many graduates were seeing the glass half empty instead of half full.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7eu6KZS4V8 (didn’t know if it was ok to embed the video)