{"id":9779,"date":"2015-06-19T20:18:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T00:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9779"},"modified":"2015-06-19T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T00:18:10","slug":"job-seeking-in-community-not-alone-a-benop-mitzvah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/06\/job-seeking-in-community-not-alone-a-benop-mitzvah.html","title":{"rendered":"Job-Seeking in Community, Not Alone: A BenOp Mitzvah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This strikes me as a great idea:<\/p>\n

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\u2026Next up on my end: I\u2019ve been using the two questions \u201cWhat do I do alone that I could do with others?\u201d and \u201cWhat do I do privately that I could do in public?\u201d as prompts for BenOp-ish ideas, and, thus, I\u2019m opening my living room sometime soon for a little salon for people between jobs to work on applications, get feedback on resumes, practice interviews, etc.<\/p>\n

Job applications always make me miserable, especially because the slew of rejections (or rather \u201cSorry you\u2019re not even worth informing we rejected you\u201d) makes it hard to hold on to feeling of worth. \u00a0Plus, I wind up with big blocks of lonely time, when everyone else is at work (if I\u2019m between jobs, rather than changing jobs).<\/p>\n

So, I\u2019m hoping that bringing people together to \u201cora et labora\u201d (pray and work) and eat together might be helpful. \u00a0I tend to think of this kind of intervention as not only being comforting but of being a sort of truth telling. \u00a0Being in a weird, precarious spot jobwise can isolate you both from others and from the honest truth about how you are valued. \u00a0My goal is restoring a connection to reality that would otherwise be clouded by circumstances.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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