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Every day life has moments to remember for a lifetime and moments that cannot end fast enough.

Career transition is life amplified and this economy uses a bullhorn to remind us.  The intense frustration and anger is attributed to increased crime, rising medical care needs, and over 300,000 people per month simply surrendering their fight to find work.  Tough times call for rising to challenges yet promises have been unfulfilled.
 
Unemployment is the emotional roller coaster that contains incredible highs, deep prolonged lows, and periodic signs of success that all too frequently produce a false end.  Yet we push forward knowing that we only need to secure that one simple "Yes"! 
This section may help you through the dark periods to eventually reach the dawn of your dreams.  Drawing across many segments, the messages all share the same threads for understanding that even the failure is not an ending but the basis for learning, adjusting, and pushing forward even if you do fall down.  Look at Thomas Edison.

 
You were employed before and you will find employment again.  Despite the economy, despite the projections and despite the reports, people are finding employment.  The process they are following is the same successful methods used during The Great Depression;
  • get out of the house,
  • go meet people, and
  • network, network, network!
      
  • The first commercial computer, UNIVAC, was first installed 23 years after the start of the Great Depression yet people found jobs before and during the Great Depression without a computer.
     
  • The conceptual notes (from J.C.R. Licklinder at MIT of a "Galactic Network") that evolved into the Internet were written 34 years after the start of the Great Depression so it's not the Internet that is required to obtain employment.
     
  • The computer and the Internet did not exist in the Great Depression; they have yet to interview or hire anyone.  Techniques used during The Great Depression may perceived as "old school", "not fashionable", or even lame.  Yet these techniques are credited for about 80% of all jobs landed across the many years.  Today, with the dramatic change in the job search environment, there are indications networking may now reaching into the 90% range!

The Internet is a network; it connects global resources into a unified easy-to-use tool.
It is not a life preserver.  It is not a substitute for focus, planning or old fashioned hard work.

 
Read    what those who have faced failure or challenging experiences have said from the quotations
             collected.
Look    at what some of the recognized great minds and talents across the centuries have said.
Learn  from the  experiences, hardship, and even repeated failures of others as they addressed the
             unknown or unpredictable events of life.
             They not only survived, they thrived from their self confidence, drive, outlook, and
             determination that they would be successful!