I'm Not Going to Play

OK...another morning filled with negative news about the economy. Things are not as we would wish, but...they are what they are. I for one, and this is not an original thought by any means, choose not to participate in the recession.

A few weeks ago, just before my birthday, I visited the license bureau to renew my driver's license. The little girl behind the counter never looked up as she took my nearly expired license and began the questions she must ask hundreds of times each week (what a boring job that must be).

"Are you still at 35 M@#$%* Drive?" I said I was. "Are you still 5'9", 180 pounds?" I said I had probably lost ten pounds. "Brown hair, brown eyes?" I said nothing...after several minutes she finally looked up and I said, "What do you think?" She responded, looking at my very gray quickly receding hair, "We're not allowed to say!"

If you have as much gray hair as I have, you've been through at least three recessions and I know three things:
1) This will be over and the economy will recover and be stronger than before.
2) This is not the time to panic and sell everything in your retirement account...selling near the bottom is never a good idea.
3) There is plenty of work out there for those willing to go out and find it.

We may have to change the way we market ourselves (For instance, I may have to get around to improving that website that hasn't had new content in years... www.smooth-male-voiceover-talent.com ), and we may have to work harder to find those jobs we need...but if we choose to do what it takes, we don't have to participate in the recession. And I'm not going to play.