Thread: Feeling down

Look at what you can learn from this experience and at what you can do differently in the future. The eye surgery is done so that won't be a factor in the future. Start watching your diet and getting some good, work up a sweat kind of exersize, those can both affect your mood tremendously. Research this, please, diet is huge in this, foods are chemical and do affect you in profound ways.

In job interview situations Never make excuses. You have to learn to, as CW said you have to "put on the actress mode", no matter how you are feeling. If you come of as rollercoastering emotionally, unable to master yourself and push through, unable to control your emotions - they won't give you a second look. That is just the reality. The business is looking people who will be an asset to the company and high maintence people just aren't very attractive to employers. An interview is short but that and your resume are their window into what kind of employee you would be, it may not be a very accurate window but it's all they have to go on.

What really interests you? What do you love to do? How could you translate that into employment? Can you get some additional training so you will feel more confident? Get a level headed freind to sit down with you and review your skills and strengths, not your job history, but your skills and strengths. Look at what those could transfer to in a variety of areas. Create a skills based resume rather than one that is a list of past jobs and positions. Get people to rehease and coach you in how to conduct your self in an interview, have them play the role of the interviewer and ask you questions that might come up. You can do a search and probably come up with a bunch of stuff. Yes, they can ask some really stupid, meaningless, oddly worded questions, you have to be able to field them effectively. In other words prepare to be on your game whenever the opportunity arises.