YouandTheTarot

  Some job searchers go on a quest for the most effective way to present themselves during interviews. A poster on Reddit has gotten to the final round accidently: He was detached since he really didn't want that job. So, he wonders if zen-like is the way to go. Those responding, as well as I who deal with brutal labor market everyday as a tarot reader, push back. Nonono. Success with interviewing is all about sizing up the room. Figure out what's going on. Then apply the fundamental of Sales 101. That's mirroring. If the interviewer is high energy, ramp up the vibes. Introspective? Align with that. They pretend to be casual. You downshift. The takeaway: Sure, beforehand, carefully research the organization. Select the best examples of accomplishments, both those you own and the collective efforts of the team. Get a good night's sleep since you might have to problem-solve on the spot. But never script how you intend to present yourself. You never know what is going on...

"Dream" - that is the daytime one not what runs during the night - is a term that makes us roll our eyes when it pops up now.  For instance, here it is in a BusinessInsider post about Gen X. The odds are that they will not be able to live the retirement dream. So? Annyone doing the math knows that renting financially beats out the one-time dream of home ownership.  And lower-income parents' dream of sending their children to college may flash that they haven't caught up with the law of supply and demand. There's such a glut of educated. Most of us learn the most from our clients. In tarot readings it's obvious to me that talk about making ends meet and building something has replaced a burst of euphoria about taking on a dream. Much of this involves a pivot in how to earn a living or outfoxing either aging or age bias. The employer realities of cost-efficiency and AI have been brutal. Also, bodies give out in some lines of work.  The shift in language not onl...

LinkedIn, Reddit, Blind and more feature detailed accounts of "having the rug pulled from under them." Maybe it was the sector such as journalism which collapsed. Almost two decades in and with lots of awards they lost their jobs and landing a replacement position doesn't look good.  Or it could be age bias. Way back in 2018, ProPublica warned that was the fate of at least half of those over-50. If they did land a replacement only 10% would receive comparable compensation. Most likely they would tumble from the professional class into survival jobs. Shift to a personal life. A child dies. They are diagnosed with ALS. The divorce wipes out the nest egg. Because this reversal of fortune might be happening relatively late in life the real tragedy is that so many lack the realization that no one cares. At least not enough to help put their lives back together. Before, people seemed to care. That's how networking goes. It operates on the Favor Bank. There's the illusio...

People usually don't come for a psychic reading to gush about how great things are going. No, typically they're in crisis. They talk fast and loud. The exception is when the issue is insanity. That category of deviation from norms is way beyond what we think of as "mental illness." You could only know what it is if you've been there when it manifests itself. And clients describe the it slowly and in hushed tones.  That's the ambiance in parts of the Elizabeth Holmes' documentary by Nathan Fiedler "You Can See Everything." It's palpable. Take in Holmes' parents. Observe also everything about actress Amanda Seyfried. She had portrayed Holmes in the film "The Dropout." I think I even catch snippets of the hush in Fielder's moments of silence.  So, who seems insane?  Of course, there's Holmes . She continually indicates that she's clueless about why she's on the way to prison for 11 years. But there's also her pa...

  The headline in the influential FT reads: "Nixonmaxxing: the strange revival of America’s disgraced president" The legacy of Richard Nixon is being restored. Meanwhile, come the day after the midterms, another GOP US President could tumble into the kind of reputation collapse as happened with Watergate and Nixon's stepping down.  Lucky for you.  So many of us Boomers, who lived day-by-day through such an upheaval, are eager to share how it was, what you might expect and what timeframe will it take for the new normal to solidify. About the latter, business for my tarot-reading/intuitive coaching practices already is increasing in demand.  Here's what I see now.  This time around there won't be a rush to journalism school, trying to be the next Bernstein-Woodward. Journalism isn't the path for the most earnest/best and brightest to follow anymore. Hasn't been for a while. Haven't you been reading postings on Reddit about all the unemployed/underemplo...

Many businesspeople, like myself, had been in awe of the strategic genius of Roger Ailes at Fox.  In network broadcast/cable, an industry that crowed about awards, he told staff not to chase them. Forgot all that. His focus was on boosting ratings. He thumbed his nose at America's Puritan ethos, featuring lots of female long legs on air.  There were no apologies for the strong opinions that became Fox's signature. Also, he had as his personal PR representative Bob Dilenschneider, himself an iconoclast.  Yet, today, the 30th anniversary of Fox, which kicked off on October 7, 1996, Ailes wasn't celebrated.  In the summer of 2016, Ailes came crashing down. In the Tarot that kind of catastrophic downfall is depicted by the Tower card. On July 6th of that year former Fox executive Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and wrongful termination. The interesting feature of that initial complaint, which caught the attention of media, was that the defenda...