Most humans incur “That time In Life”

There is a time in life when you wake up ‘LOST’.  Fortunately it doesn’t always last long, but any time it does happen, it hurts.

I took the time to tell Matt and Kirsten one small fact of life that MOST of us go thru. I quoted what an advisor told me when I decided to retire. He said many times retirement is like the death of a mate, it leaves you LOST, not sure of what direction you should be going.  I have learned over the years that same scenario can be equated to the breaks and changes in life.

My ‘advisor’ said today you are SOMEBODY. You say to someone jump and they respond ‘How high?’  Tomorrow try telling someone to ‘Jump’, and they may say, “Kiss my grits!” Not exactly those words but you  get the idea.

As I talked to the kids for just a few minutes, I just said, “Up until now, you have had homework to do, studies to do, papers to write, classes to attend. Tomorrow you have no responsibilities to others, now your responsibilities are to yourselves.

   

NOW, all of a sudden it is YOU, looking for a job, and it will come.  It may not look like it, but it will.  You will soon be responsible to someone again. DO NOT GET TOO DISCOURAGED. I was unemployed for almost three months once, it nearly drove me up a wall. So I do know the feeling.

When you look at the big picture it must be discouraging, Knowing thousands of men and women are now GRADUATES, competing for those JOBS, someone says exists!

I have no doubt Matt and Kirsten will land good jobs, BUT there is THAT PERIOD OF TIME until it happens.

Thanks for coming by the log.

Nite Shipslog

PS:

Sometimes it is hard to stay pumped-up, with someone always trying to DEFLATE YOU!

 

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Son Mark’s TR6 in the 1980’s. He once bent a bumper and the boys at Richard Petty’s shop fixed the bumper and chromed it for me nor nothing.