Hi, I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I’m referred to as The Big Game Hunter because I coach people to play their professional and personal games big. Now, I hate sounding like a gloom and doomer, because I’m not. What I really am is being very pragmatic here. Here’s the pragmatic thing I want to say to you: the next recession is going to occur sooner rather than later. And most job hunters, most professionals I know—and I don’t care what your career is—are not doing anything to prepare for that inevitability. I want you to hear that again. Most professionals, most job hunters are doing nothing to prepare for that inevitability. You’re not building a network, you’re not saving money, you’re doing nothing.

And, you know, the impact of that is going to be, well, you are at risk of the impact of your employer’s layoffs. And if you think as a consultant you’re immune to that, sugar pie, you are very wrong. As you know, consultants can get thrown out just as easily as staff, and sometimes even more easily. After all, your contract with the vendor who’s carrying it, your contract as a direct person always has a corporate out. You are screwed.

However, if you plan—if you start doing things now, when things are pretty good, to build your network; if you start saving capital so that you can last longer; if you start looking at building online revenue streams for yourself (excuse me, for yourself)—then you’ll have options. Now, this isn’t humorous, but I want to point out how easy it can be. You can sell e-books through Amazon that are how-to e-books. Run a barber shop? Teach people how to cut their own hair. Make money from that. You know, a hairdresser? Create videos for YouTube: how to cut women’s hair. I don’t know, a garage mechanic? You know, there are ways to demonstrate to people how to do their own oil change—video, books—make money from it. Lots of different secondary revenue streams that you can create for yourself if you’re open to thinking creatively here. You can teach. You can teach at a school, you can wind up, you know, teaching online. Coaches: you can create masterminds for people in one form or another. Small business owners, solopreneurs, you know, a lot of different people can be helped by a mastermind.

Start marketing yourself for who you are and take responsibility for your career, rather than just look at, you know, “I need to provide this service to this client,” or “I need to do a good job so that my employer will want to keep me if times are tough.” Folks, if you think an employer is going to keep you because you did a good job or a great job, let me remind you of something: millions of employees who did great jobs got fired the last time, and the time before that, and the time before that. Now, employers like to suggest they’re creating economies of scale and “we’re getting rid of the dead wood.” Yeah, right. How do you like to feel being called dead wood? You aren’t. What you are is a human being who put their best effort in, and an employer is going to try and rationalize their behavior, you know, in this cloak of economies of scale and getting rid of the dead wood.

Start looking at how you can take responsibility for your own career. You know, you may not be able to replace all your income, but you may. You may be able to do a blog, you may be able to write an e-book, you may be able to make money from YouTube videos. A lot of different things that you can do taking your knowledge and teaching others. You can’t go wrong.

I’m Jeff Altman. Hope you found this helpful. My website is TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more there that you can watch, listen to, or read to help you find work. And if we aren’t connected on LinkedIn, send a connection request to linkedin.com/in/thebiggamehunter. Lastly, if you have questions about job hunting, if you have questions or just want coaching from me, you can find out more about it at my website. If you just want to ask a couple of questions, schedule time by clicking the link that says “Have Your Job Search Questions Answered,” and then the other one for coaching is “VIP Personal Search,” and I’d be happy to help. Hope you have a great day. Take care.

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