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“Discouraged workers” is term economists use to describe people who are out of the workforce and not really on the radar of statistics. These are people who have given up collecting unemployment (or it has run out) and have given up on the job market.
I remember being in that state for some time. When I was working, I was working a low paying, low incentive, low morale job. Every thing about it was “low” except for the hours. I had to put in 40 hours a week which accounts for a large portion of my waking hours each week.
Things began to change when I changed – changed to a home based business mindset. Oh I still put in 40 hours per week – most weeks more than that. But now it’s something I enjoy doing and that’s a huge difference. I know that a lot of people are out there now who are very discouraged. They may even have jobs like I did. But a job without some sort of fulfillment (other than a pay check) gets burdensome after a while doesn’t it?
So I have gone from a Discouraged Worker to a happy independent business owner!
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One of my pet peeves in life is waiting in line. It has to do, I think, with a larger part of me that doesn’t like time wasters – the kind that waste my time when I’m trying to get something accomplished. Oh, I can mitigate this somewhat by bringing my web enabled cell phone with me, or if I’m really expecting a long wait, my iPod. Or I can try striking up a conversation with someone else in line. Then who knows? Maybe I can get a lead out of the line!
Retail establishments and other organizations with waiting lines often spend lots of effort and money developing ways to make their lines move faster. This is ok – a moving line is always better than a line that only nudges every few minutes.
What about accepting that there will be lines and just doing something to make the time in line more enjoyable? That’s exactly what one of the local Bank of America branches near me has done. Banks often have the worst lines. Not all teller transactions are equal and some of them seem to take enormous amounts of time.
This Bank of America branch simply put up a few large flat screen TV monitors, mounted at near eye level in various places so that you could see the TV from any point in line. It was not that elaborate – I would say the screens were basic 25 or 27 inch models piping a cooking channel from cable or satellite. But it was just a ‘little thing’ that made my trip to the bank less un-enjoyable. Plus I got a great idea for a no-crust, no-bake pumpkin pie!
