The US Department of Labor Job Report for March 2010 was the best in three years, with some 162,000 new jobs added. But many of those new jobs were temporary, census-related, positions. And the overall unemployment rate is seemingly stuck at 9.7% (10.5% for full-time work). Additionally, some 44% of the 15 million unemployed have been jobless for 27 weeks or more, which begs the question:

“At what point is it time to start considering a DIFFERENT line of work?”

This lead to my writing my latest article for TheLadders.com called, What Job Would Make You Happy?, which was published earlier this week by them.

An excerpt:

Don’t get me wrong: If you’re fully engaged in what feels like a fruitful job search, please stay with it. But what if you’re not? What if your contacts and connections have dried up and you haven’t had an active lead in far too long? What if you’ve hit a permanent dead end?

Sure, Napoleon Hill said, “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” But maybe your Next Step has less to do with PERSERVERANCE than REINVENTION. Maybe it’s time to take what you already know and can do and apply it in an entirely new way.

Even if you’re just wondering what other type of work you might do, it’s not a bad idea to think things through a bit. So here are a few ideas to help get you started …

To find out about those ideas, you can continue reading my article published by TheLadders.com, at either my web site, or theirs:

• http://www.ggci.com/Articles/TheLadders-2010-04-21.htm
• http://www.theladders.com/career-advice/what-job-would-make-you-happy

Hope you find it helpful.

And for other articles I’ve written for TheLadders:http://theladders.com/career-search?contentSearchKeyword=zweibel&fromSearch=true.

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