Feng Shui Your Way to a New Job? Maybe!

Persistently looking for work in a dismal economy like this takes incredible internal fortitude. I think it's comparable to the same internal fortitude that allows some people to eat weird crap on Fear Factor. Especially when you are searching within a field that has been stripped bare of opportunities through outsourcing, it can be deeply demoralizing. That's why I've really admired how Kathy has kept doggedly pursuing possibilities over the months since she has been laid off. (For those who don't know, she worked in technology for a bank that was seized by the Feds. It's a longer story than that, but aren't they all?)

As she dealt with the ups and downs of the job search, I have to admit that I felt more and more helpless. It is my way to help people accomplish things. That's why I had a coaching business, after all. I want to make everyone's path a little easier. But what could I do?

Then, a few weeks ago, I brightly suggested that I would help her get a job by improving our household chi. Yep, I'd feng shui her into a job! Okay, I knew I was grasping at straws, but feng shui was something I understood. The current job market? Not so much.

So, we worked on our career center, adding a mirror, a fountain, wind chimes...removing clutter...adding personality. You get the idea. We were only a day or two into this project when I was contacted about a job. As someone who has been self-employed for years, it's been a long time since someone has contacted me about a job, even a contract one. I had to laugh - clearly, we needed to address the intention part of the feng shui. We're looking for a job for Kathy, for KATHY!

We worked on some other things, then went back to the Project Happy Chi. We removed a rug from the career center that kept bunching up under the furniture. I demonstrated - by sliding in my socks like a 7-year old - how the chi now screamed into the house with abandon. We put some things up to encourage the energy to curve around and stay inside, instead of racing out the back door. We laughed a lot about it, even though I couldn't stop doing the sock slide in the entry hall, with delight.

She applied for a job that week. They immediately brought her in for interviews. In fact, they interviewed her four days in a row and by the next week, she found out she had the job. And not just any job, but the most fitting opportunity she had seen in almost six months.

Unemployment in our area just climbed to a rate of over 10%. Did good feng shui really help Kathy land the perfect job? I don't know. She was just as great a candidate in October as she was in March. But whatever made it happen now instead of later, we are both incredibly grateful. Lots of people need jobs and we wish everyone of them success. These are hard times, indeed.

Meanwhile, I'm moving on to fixing the feng shui in the rest of the house, that's for sure. Because, you know, just in case...it doesn't hurt to at least believe the energy is good.

Not to mention the fact that I never get enough of sliding around in my socks. Wee!

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