You Don't Matter - Employers Are Making Sure You Know That

 An eye-roller. On tabloid Abovethelaw Vivia Chen goes on and on about law firms' not caring about young lawyers. So? And she predicts a mental health crisis. So, again? 

The Wall Street Journal has already covered that territory for most sectors. Employers actually are making it explicit that you are "replaceable." Another way of putting it is: You're a dime a dozen. Accept their terms and conditions of employment, don't complain or else leave. 

As a faith-based career coach and tarot reader I bear witness to these realities in the current struggle to earn a living. No longer do I hear about "getting ahead." It's down to financial survival.

What's obvious is that there has to be a shift from all those old-line expectations about work. You know, that it's purpose-driven, that's it's meaningful and that it must be your passion. 

Instead, there's a circling back to a time only boomers might have experienced. That was not directly. It was through the stories from our families who got through The Great Depression. Our time as the boomer generation was different. It was when the post-war economic boom was kicking in. 

The stories and there were always plenty of them were about how our families managed against such bad odds to get, hold and even move on to better work. Their number-one strategy was "turning over" the desperate need for income to some form of mystical presence. It was an era of deep faith. At night, families prayed together that there would still be work. That's how hope got maintained. 

Evangelical churches are recreating that trust that what is called God, Jesus, or something else has your back. So are community bible-study groups. Anyone can form a prayer group. Anyone can pray with another human being one-on-one. 

This "turning it over" has an excellent track record. It's the platform for getting and staying sober in 12-step program Alcoholics Anonymous. No coincidence that approach to putting the fatal disease of alcoholism into remission was created during The Great Depression. There was despair. There was hope. The latter came through taking the leap into trust in something bigger than you - that protected you. 

Meanwhile, I guide clients to not take how they might be treated in the workplace personally. That only distracts from figuring out options. Through their faith a growing number of clients have found the exit out of the oppression in self-employment. Others have reskilled for types of work in which they aren't so easily expendable.

Thriving in difficult times starts from the inside.

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