Growing up on a farm I remember doing a lot of projects with my Dad and older brothers. Putting a new porch on the house, fixing up the hog house, building fence and many others.
Being the tall skinny kid with long legs, when ever we were working on something and forgot a tool from the workshop guess who got to run get it? So many times I remember running like my life or that of my Dad or brothers depended on it because someone was always holding something heavy or that if they let go would cause a bigger problem. It seemed that half the time I would get back with the tool or board or what ever they asked for, gapsing for breath just to hear "Never mind we fixed it." That used to drive me crazy. I used to thing they did it on purpose just to watch me run. But on that rare occasion I would get there just in the nick of time to save the day.
I see a lot of parallels between fetching tools and the job search. Every time we have a job lead we run as fast as we can as if our lives depend on it only to find out later that they found another candidate or the position was eliminated. Funny thing is no matter how many times we hear "never mind" we still run, expecting to be useful or save the day.
We run because we care. We run because we have to for our families. We run because some day we want to be the one who tells someone else to run. We run because we don't want to have the regret of not running when it could have made a difference.
The thing about running is that in the big picture it is good for you. It makes it easier to run the next time as you get more practice. It makes you think about different ways to prevent running as much or take different paths to make things easier.
In the end, it only takes one time getting the tool there on time to make a difference. So as we run to our next jobs we need to keep joy in the potential to make a difference and the chance to learn how to run in new ways.
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