Climb every Mountain

There are so many ups and downs when you're job hunting. Mostly, long drawn out chasm like downs, but the occasional upward hillock gives us the motivation to trudge onward. Yesterday was the perfect example. News reached me that a local firm were in the market for a commercial property lawyer. Perfect, you would think and enough of a chink of light to spur me on to contact said firm. But, and here's where the uppy downy metaphor comes into play, don't get fooled into thinking that the prospect of a small up will materialise into you reaching the summit.

The job in question has been floating around for several months and, for whatever reason, I don't appear to be in the running (Jersey can be a strange place if you're not "local"). Nevertheless, if I decided to just sulk at base camp, then I may as well pack up and go home. So I e-mailed them. reiterated my interest in the job and dropped in a line about being persistent (or a pest depending on your perspective). So now the waiting starts. The endless agonising wait to even see whether you may or may not stand a chance of being interviewed. And, in this instance, I don't think I do. I don't know why and I probably never will (feedback seems to be something you only find nowadays when you put your guitar too close to the amp). But then, that doesn't matter. You see, even if you think you've more chance of winning the X Factor than actually getting the job in question, that shouldn't deter you from trying. You keep on trying and eventually you succeed.

So, it may only be a small hillock or it may be a great big mountain with my name on it, but unless you start the climb, you will never know. So seize every opportunity that comes your way, but don't get carried away by it. With the almost complete absence of property jobs at the moment its very easy to cling onto every half chance of a job that crosses your path. But, one of these days, one of those half chances will turn into a job. So, as Julie Andrews said "climb every mountain" and eventually one of those mountains will be yours to plant your flag in!