So Jim can't find a job and he gave up looking. It was the height of the recession in Jan 2009. Over a hundred thousand jobs disappeared. It seemed like no one was hiring. But that's not the total reason why Jim stopped looking.
Jim is not a quitter. He is a very hard worker. He is not mentally challenged. He is just slower than other people. And when he tried to speed up, he'd make mistakes.
Jim is a slow thinker and he is not mechanically coordinated. Before forming a conclusion, think about it. It you are a slow thinker, it takes you longer to perform a task that requires some thought. So the perplexing question is: How do you speed up your thinking?
There are herbs that will sharpen your memory. But a sharp memory is not what Jim needed. He needed to think faster. So when he saw others find the solution to a problem, he would ask them in the hopes of finding an answer for himself, "How did you figure that out?"
The answer Jim got did not help him. "I don't know. It just came to me."
The answer just popped into the person's mind. No known thought process. No method of arriving at that answer.
Jim wasn't convinced. He asked others. Is it the thought process? Or is it something else? If one thinks slower, one works slower. And if one has a reputation of being a little slow, one won't find a job. Not in a recession.
That's why Jim quit looking. Now don't get the wrong idea. Jim is not collecting unemployment compensation. Jim is not on Welfare and Jim is not on food stamps. Jim is waiting and hoping the economy is getting better.
Millions of people are waiting for the economy to get better. And I'll bet most of them could give you a pretty damn good reason for waiting.
Jim is not a quitter. He is a very hard worker. He is not mentally challenged. He is just slower than other people. And when he tried to speed up, he'd make mistakes.
Jim is a slow thinker and he is not mechanically coordinated. Before forming a conclusion, think about it. It you are a slow thinker, it takes you longer to perform a task that requires some thought. So the perplexing question is: How do you speed up your thinking?
There are herbs that will sharpen your memory. But a sharp memory is not what Jim needed. He needed to think faster. So when he saw others find the solution to a problem, he would ask them in the hopes of finding an answer for himself, "How did you figure that out?"
The answer Jim got did not help him. "I don't know. It just came to me."
The answer just popped into the person's mind. No known thought process. No method of arriving at that answer.
Jim wasn't convinced. He asked others. Is it the thought process? Or is it something else? If one thinks slower, one works slower. And if one has a reputation of being a little slow, one won't find a job. Not in a recession.
That's why Jim quit looking. Now don't get the wrong idea. Jim is not collecting unemployment compensation. Jim is not on Welfare and Jim is not on food stamps. Jim is waiting and hoping the economy is getting better.
Millions of people are waiting for the economy to get better. And I'll bet most of them could give you a pretty damn good reason for waiting.
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