Those of you who are unemployed, looking for work or are just sick and tried of being walked all over by others will find what I have to say - a dose of reality and it will hit close to home.
I bet you have tried almost anything to get ahead. Trying to get that job so you can just survive or maybe just to get higher up on the food chain at that corporation. Did they tell you that you needed more education and you went and got it but nothing happened? How about they said you needed a more positive outlook at your job? You went to counseling but everything is the same but you now have a permanent smile on your face but you don't know why.
Have you heard that a positive outlook on your life brings success? I think you have and I am here to tell you that it is a lot of BS. Why do I say that? Because, like it or not, our lives are not just us alone, there are outside influences that govern our lives.
Our lives are pre-ordained even before we are born. The determining factors are where we are born, to whom we are born to, what nationality or color we are, our level of intelligence and any birth defects we might have.
Next we have the people whom we deal with everyday that also determine how successful we are. Government makes laws to help some and hinder others. Schools constantly either re-enforce we are intelligent or stupid with tests based on how they teach but not how we learn.
We are discriminated against at every turn in our lives. Whether it is by whom we hang out with in school or choose to be a "loner," to who is attracted to us when we start to date. Colleges and employers both require resumes of some form but both want to see us in person for that interview so they can meet us - or form their thoughts on how to discriminate either for us or against us.
A person's looks plays a very large part on how successful they are. Have you noticed that most people that are successful have a full set of teeth? That is because they could afford to take care of them or had parents that could afford braces when they were young. Coming from a family that could afford health care and a higher education for their children is where most of the separation of the haves and the have nots begin.
I was at a seminar last month that had many successful people as guest speakers. It was one of those seminars that took place at a fancy hotel with ultra modern sofas in the lobby. I was watching them take their turns at the podium and they all said the same thing about their careers. They were successful by either whom they knew or by being in the right place at the right time. Out of the 10 speakers, 3 got to where they are by shear luck. One of them came from a well to do family and had all the education. Six of them worked and struggled their way through college and it was not that they were qualified for a job or career but whom they had met and made contacts with.
The next time you get that rejection letter you can rest assured that either someone who knew somebody was the one who really got the job or they just liked someone else's face.
That is reality.
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