Will spring flowers bloom in a recession?

Spring is just around the corner. Lucky us, we are in a recession. So I wonder if the recession will affect the flowers? Will the flowers bloom with us pouring less dollars into Miracle Grow this spring? Maybe the recession will make us stop enticing things to bloom faster then their natural course. Or maybe we’ll just pretend flowers never mattered.

This spring I knew with or with out the recession would mark a turning point in my life. In the past year I have secured a temp position to learn new skills. With those skills I embarked on my own, safely part time. As the recession moves into full stream, I take a look back at all the time I wasted running up to the gate but halting right before execution. Would my business be flourishing if I would have not questioned the timing? Maybe. Maybe not.

Regardless, I am now one of the 20+ thousand job seekers. I keep wondering when Snorg Tees to come out with a shirt that says “HIRE ME”. The problem I have is, I am not an “expert” in any one area. Blessed with the ever so generic “Business Degree”, switched jobs the past 4 years almost as much as underwear, and a resume that’s three humiliating pages long, I feel a like a job whore.

Honestly, I have enjoyed and learned an incredible amount from the three different positions in four years I have held. Each one was a bit out of my knowledge scope and required me to grow as a professional. I wouldn’t have changed anything.

Present day, I am not in my twenties and thank God not in my forties yet, but feel incredible displaced. I have no “expertise” in one area to search upon. HR reps I have spoken to, gravitate to the area I have most knowledge in. Unfortunately, it’s my last resort for a job next to toilet bowl cleaner. Hollywood portrays the career field way more exciting then it the truth.

I know the sun will come up and I will eventually make it up this hill. Huffing and puffing at the top, I will find a position I hope to hold for a very long time. In the meantime, I will set aside my Inc. magazine and trade my entrepreneurship title for just a chic who drinks coffee. Because at the end of the day, it’s just that simple.