Jobbies

Imagine yourself in this position: Locked outside a room, but wanting to get in, though when you knock on the door to ask if they would be so kind and to open it, they tell you that you that that isn't the secret knock, and at other times don't say anything at all, apart from the talking you can hear behind the door. This is essentially the situation I'm in involving the search of jobs. It's not that I'm unqualified; I'm anything but, but I have been around and maybe my direction isn't clear to people. Which it isn't! But not having set out a clear path from the get-go doesn't mean that you are inferior to someone who had been programmed to pursue a certain path. The inability to know what's best for yourself only means that you are more likely to find yourself in a number of different environments and having a range of experience is immensely useful in virtually every category of work across the board.

Like I said before, in a post on 'interconnectedness' there is a combined manifestation of matter which interlocks in ways we can't always see from the start. You would think that chopping down a tree does nothing more than give you wood, and doubly if you are an dentropheliac. Though the implications of it can lead to soil erosion, species deaths, dried out earth, etc... There are layers in layers – the onion's smell is in all! I mean, the connections even breach the understanding of current science in the form of 'entanglement' – so to think one action is limited to itself is to misunderstand the complexities of reality. Recently emerged the viral video on youtube which showed a forest being swallowed by a lake – a lake formed from sink holes which developed from the excavation of resources deep in the earth and where the ground moved and filled it forcing water up and the land down. The excavation crew didn't think something like this would happen, and yet we have now, in Florida, massive evacuations because of it. And, in another post, I talked about quantum biology – a branch of new scientific study where quantum affects can be directly observed in nature – something most scientists thought impossible only years ago. What I am saying is that it helps to keep apprised of things beyond the scope of your work duties as things run deeper than that.

So, with that in mind, how would it not be beneficial to a work position to have a range of experiences as opposed to a limited one within a very specialised field. I mean, education and a degree is simply a limitation cap put onto actual experience – it is specific to a particular thing because learning more than that would take too much time and not adequately delve into the subject to the extent that it requires to fully grasp it. That's fine, specialised study, but it is not all; especially when study takes itself into the real world. A place of messy, wet and wild occurrences, a place where things don't quite work out how you would like them to. And a place where action in one department sifts through and has implications on other departments – something you may only fully grasp through a wider experience history.

What really are the key attributes of an employee anyway?

Beyond the application form which stipulates particular criteria for a position, there is an underlying quota of 'the right stuff'. These are an 'ability to work under pressure', 'hard working', 'attentive to detail', having 'good communication skills' and 'flexible to change'. These fundamentals are the core of any good worker, and are the tenants of the recruitment system. Though, these core aspects are impossible to quantify or qualify. A piece of paper as in what you find in an application form is limited by the narrow scope of its wording – an inability to communicate these traits. Besides, and application is simply a perspective of a person's ability – an ability which is only remarked in a historical biography pertaining to education or work, but nothing to really convey the individual's actual potential. So, like online social networking – it is a fictional impression of a person and not what is really representative of reality. This is the problem with applications – the fact that you can be dismissed without even been 'seen'.

I could argue that this is a trend of the 'now' - whereby everything has become so impersonal that from a few lines on a grid you make an impression already. Though, if you look back, where classes were invisible, but largely impenetrable lines; where you are born in the bracket in which you die you see that this is nothing new. Now though, these lines have fizzled, though categorical stigma still remains, as it always will when there is an abundance of choice. The multitude causes the perceiver to form borders and bracket divisions of their own – it's a generalisation tactic which functions to allow the perceiver to function at all. Without generalisations the world is far too much work – where bad, good, tasty and rank have yet to be established for each time you sample something – withholding opinion until a pragmatic, approach has been tested. And here lies the problem, the problem of fairness. The problem with fairness, is that it simply doesn't work. There are too many balls in motion, too many divisions in the conceptual world, too much underlying agenda, too much self pride and too much greed for such a thing as fairness to be a reality. The playing field is level only to those who are not squat in the ditch to the outside of the plateau. To those on the brink, to those on outside the markers of the field, the actuality is anything but.

So anyway, I drink in the mud and see a level field as a large hill, a hill reaching further till a mountain top creeps up – the people at the top are too far away to see. Part of this problem is for the fault of my own – I got tangled in my own shoelaces as I paced forwards and backwards along the edges, working out my route. Though, I saw too many and none looked to be better than the next. I used to see choice as a limitation almost – a bizarre and somewhat ironic notion I know, but that is how I felt. The thing about rooms, corridors and doors is that because a structure is finite (as life is), the faster you move through the building the faster you reach the end, and end where there's nowhere new to tread. In addition, to walk through doors is to dismiss the other door options along the way – shutting off the 'partials' – the potential what 'ifs' which could in the end be better for you than you realise before you haphazardly decide on one over the other. That's kinda why I don't have favourites, I don't have clear and strong preferences and would never be able to adopt a religion – even if I was convinced of a God – for the same reason – what makes this one better than the other? So yeah, I've always been very undecided; or rather, unconvinced of the 'right course of action' and this really is the problem I have. Now I see the doors, but the doors which were plentiful, the doors which stretched along corridors for miles are rusting shut, or becoming locked by some mysterious 'time janitor' who monitors the sand timers outside them. Action needs to be taken, but with each step forwards, the shackles of restraint tie you down to the format of the governance of the world, and the dreaded application.

Anyone got a towel for my face?