A political staffer caught in the change of administrations, he has tried to turn his government experience into a public relations career. To bulwark his credentials, he has enrolled in a master's of business administration program. He confesses to having given networking short shrift over the years, something for which he's now paying. Back in 1994, when I started writing about career management, these were the career issues of the moment. Then came technology, the Internet, a raging bull stock market and an era of prosperity called the New Economy that wasn't supposed to end.
Nothing lasts forever, especially economic trends.
Like anyone else in a downturn, many of us tend to hunker down. We opt to stay on in jobs we dislike, for fear there's nothing else out there. We take the safe job choices, rather than rolling the dice in search of a jackpot. Most of all, we grow discouraged and give up the chase. These are exactly the wrong things to do.