Starting A New Journey: What Color Is Your Parachute?

I recently stumbled onto a website that basically shared stories of others who are going through the unemployment/underemployment journey. The website is appropriately named unemploymentville. I thought to myself that it is good to know that there are people out there that are struggling as I am in the "new economy."

I still hear stories of people that have been let go for the most bizarre reasons. I also hear of people who are still struggling to keep a roof over their head because the gig economy doesn't provide the stable income they need to survive.

I was given the opportunity to review and put into practice some of the exercises in the "What Color is Your Parachute?" 2018 edition. This annual job hunter and career changer manual has been in print since 1970. I picked up the 2011 edition when I realized that the job I was in was changing in ways that I wasn't comfortable with at the time. I was at a crossroads then. I wasn't into the Internet at all except for some online research. I know that the 2011 edition really didn't emphasize the Internet too much as it was just actually beginning to be something that companies were using to screen employees.

For those of you who are just seeing this blog for the first time, please read the earlier posts. This will give you a good sense of where I am in this journey. If you have been following this blog for awhile, I've stopped writing regular posts in 2014. A number of factors have contributed to this "falling out" including the fact that I've been way too busy with the society to post anything.  For anyone who is wondering how the society is doing. It is doing better than anyone expected it would. No, I'm still not getting money for the work I'm doing for the society. It is fulfilling work though...

In the next few weeks, I will be taking the time to explore the "What Color is Your Parachute?" book. There are a lot of differences that I've noticed from the 2011 edition. First impressions of the book are that this could be something very useful for me at this stage of my now underemployment journey.

I will be posting periodic updates of my journey here. You may also see this over at the unemploymentville.com website. I do welcome comments and suggestions. Thank you.