Took up golf a little bit over a year ago.
Slowly but surely getting better at it, still above the elusive 100 mark.
Let me tell you a story:
Hole 2 on my local home course is a small Par 3 – 127 or so yards. The last few times I played it, I took a 5 hybrid and proceeded to sent it into:
The resort pool.
And, the next time — the tree above the pool.
so obviously, a bit too much club here.
Last time I played, I decided not to potentially endanger any lives, so I made the responsible choice and took a 7 iron. Perfect shot. Left to right fade. It's looking like it's going directly at the flag stick to set up a beautiful birdie opportunity.
Until it dies in the air and lands on the lip of the bunker.
Next thing you know I'm basically excavating myself, with a horrible shot. Ball above me on the grass, I'm in the bunker. So I sky it up in the air. Back down into the bunker. Next shot can't get it out. Before you know it my perfect shot has turned into a blow up hole.
On hole 2.
Just 16 more to go.
Sometimes you know, life is giving you lemonade and proceeds to turn it into lemons.
Sometimes the Golf Gods spit in your face and laugh at you.
And sometimes, you know, the job market does the same.
A client at Unfair Careers I spoke to recently told me she'd sent over 300 job applications since May, with no actual interviews.
Here's where people get in trouble:
One bad result doesn't tell you the whole picture.
Sometimes you have the perfect shot and life just says you suck.
Lemonade into lemons.
Bad shot into the bunker.
But 300 bad shots…
That tells you something.
That tells you something is fundamentally broken in your setup. In your swing. It's not where the ball is landing. It's how you're hitting the ball in the first place.
Same thing applies to jobs.
If you've sent out 300 resumes and gotten zilch, zero, nada in terms of replies, then you're just chunking balls off into the distance. Into the water. Into the lake. Enjoy fishing them out.
Except, instead of the price of golf balls, it's, well, your paycheck.
At that point, sending application #301 probably isn't the answer.
it's getting a coach to diagnose what's wrong with your setup, your swing, and everything else.
Sometimes the problem is actually you.
And sometimes, it's lemons from lemonade.
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